Ethan Levy, executive producer of N3TWORK, is confident in the bright future of blockchain games. In a large column for the Deconstructor of Fun blog, he explained how the concept of digital ownership can change the relationship between developers and users, as well as solve key problems of the gaming economy. The main points from the material are in our retelling.

This year ‘s edition App2Top.ru for the first time, it holds its own award. It’s called App2Top.ru Awards 2021 and celebrates achievements in the Russian-speaking gaming industry for the current year. The award is held as part of the annual cycle “Results of the Year“.

Mobile publisher Azur Games has joined the race to build metaverses. A company with Russian roots has announced its own metaverse project based on the game Axes.io . She also launched the NFT direction and announced M&A plans.

The Israeli company Moon Active, known for the mobile hit Coin Master, has conducted a new round of financing. It received $300 million from investors, and its market value was estimated at $5 billion.The main investor in the round was Insight Partners, according to the Israeli newspaper Calcalist.

Epic Games continues to move towards creating its own metaverse. To do this, the company acquired the Harmonix studio, known for the Rock Band series. The team will create music content for Fortnite. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.FUSER

The Finnish studio HypeHype (formerly Frogmind) received $ 15.5 million for the development of its new product — the platform of the same name, on which mobile and PC gamers can create their own games. Supercell gave the money to the company.

Google together with Newzoo have prepared a large study of the global video game market. This year, the industry will slow down its growth slightly, but in 2023 its turnover will exceed the $200 billion mark for the first time. Analysts also talked about key trends and how the audience of video games in the world is changing.The study is based on Newzoo data and responses from 16,900 respondents from four main regions:

Jurassic World Evolution 2 started slower than its developers expected. In two weeks since the release of the taikun about the construction of a park with dinosaurs, it has sold approximately 500 thousand copies on all platforms. As a result, Frontier Developments had to lower its financial forecast for the current year.

Activision Blizzard has faced criticism from another platform holder. Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America, called the harassment situation disappointing. He also stated that Nintendo has already taken some action against Activision.Doug Bowser

The Pokémon GO developer continues to promote his vision of a “metaverse in the real world.” Niantic has raised $300 million from investors to develop this concept. According to the results of the round, the company’s valuation amounted to $9 billion.

tinyBuild is expanding. The company includes the American publisher Versus Evil and its internal studio Red Cerberus, specializing in QA. The total amount of the transaction may amount to $31.3 million.The Banner Saga 3

The number of users in Garena games is growing rapidly. In the third quarter of 2021, the total active audience of the projects of this Singapore company reached 729 million people.

Fritupley Call of Duty and Fortnite attract the bulk of Xbox users. However, Microsoft is still making a big bet on the Game Pass. Using the example of Outer Wilds and Bethesda projects, analysts from Newzoo talked about the impact of the subscription service on the popularity of both AAA titles and small indie games.The most popular games of October on Xbox

A new report from GameRefinery has been released. According to him, 90 of the 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the United States hold events dedicated to the seasons. The company’s analysts also talk about an increase in the number of events that are held in partnership with major brands and other gaming brands.

Last weekend, the Star Citizen crowdfunding campaign crossed the $400 million mark. The large-scale project, which has been in development for more than 10 years, has already been supported by over 3.3 million users. At the same time, the game still does not even have an approximate release date.In total, to date, Star Citizen’s fees have amounted to $403 million.

Bobby Kotick has announced that he will consider resigning as CEO of Activision Blizzard. This will only happen if he fails to solve the current problems quickly. Meanwhile, the company’s shares have fallen by almost a third since the harassment scandal began.The Cat made such a statement during a meeting with Blizzard Entertainment executives, The Wall Street Journal reports.

For the first time in 20 years, Niko Partners analysts have revised the forecast for the Chinese gaming market downwards. According to the updated data, by the end of 2021, the turnover of the console, mobile and PC segments in China will amount to $46.98 billion – $540 million less than originally expected.

Battlefield 2042 and Forza Horizon 5 continue to lead the chart of the best-selling games on Steam. Last week, they again got the entire first half of the rating. Also in the top of the bestsellers was the upcoming Halo Infinite story campaign.

How not to work with streamers? The answer to this question is now known by mihoyo, the developer and publisher of Genshin Impact. During the preparation of the new event, the company presented so many requirements to the content authors that many simply refused to work with it.