Publishers rarely share insiders. The exception is always a joy. The other day, a similar exception was made by Johan Toresson, the head of the indie publishing house Raw Fury. He stated that the company receives at least 1,500 pitches a year. He noted that this is not very much. Of this number of applications, Raw Fury usually takes less than 1% to work.

The editors of the App Store, if desired, may refuse to publish the application if they consider the category “oversaturated” and the product devoid of uniqueness.

At the end of July, the California authorities filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, accusing the company of discrimination and harassment. It turned out that from that moment the publisher fired 20 employees and brought the same number to disciplinary responsibility.

Facebook is preparing for rebranding. The company does not want to be thought of only as a social network. Its new name will refer to plans to build a metaverse.

Last week, during WN Moscow`21, the third “HR Awards Game Show” was held. This is an award for gaming HR specialists and teams from Russia and Eastern Europe, organized by Talents In Games. It awards the best HR projects. This time, the initiatives of Playrix, BIT.GAMES and MYTONA were noted.

On October 13-14, a business conference for publishers and developers of video games WN Conference was held in Moscow. We tell you about how it was.

In September, Americans spent $4.4 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to NPD Group analysts. They also write that the PS5 has overtaken the Nintendo Switch in the number of boxes sold, and Madden NFL 22 is in first place in the ranking of the best-selling games.

Wanted: backend developer at Black Snowflake, lead game designer at Dankolab and product manager at Hypercell Games.

In February, the Belarusian studio Flime together with Gismart released a hyper-casual arcade Pencil Rush 3D. In the seven months since its release, the game has been downloaded 40 million times. The developers have prepared for App2Top.ru a column in which they told about the progress of the creation of the game.

Sony Pictures Entertainment sold GSN Games, the developers of the slots, two years after the purchase. Scopely became the new owner of the studio. The deal cost the mobile publisher “almost a billion dollars.”

On September 17, the South Korean TV series “The Squid Game” was released on Netflix. Mobile developers decided to take advantage of its success. The AppMagic analytical service found out which projects based on this show have collected the largest number of downloads over the past two weeks.

Studio Kixeye has accused its owner Stillfront Group of non-payment of $ 30 million of the required remuneration. According to the materials of the lawsuit, Stillfront deliberately understated the financial results of Kixeye in order to evade the mandatory payment.

Last week, the best-selling game on Steam was Back 4 Blood. Different editions of the zombie shooter from Turtle Rock Studios got four lines in the rating at once, including the first. But Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 have disappeared from dozens of bestsellers.

Traditionally, an exhibition of developers takes place within the framework of each WN Conference. This was also the case at the autumn session that just took place. We tell you about what interesting projects could be found in the exhibition part of the conference in the material.

It seems that Valve is set against blockchain games. According to the updated Steam rules, titles with NFT will not be allowed in the store. This also applies to projects already placed on the site.Age of Rust

NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella shared his forecasts for the American video game industry for the fourth quarter of 2021. He expects that the problems with the supply of consoles will continue, the costs of gamers will increase, and Call of Duty: Vanguard will become a bestseller.

Another free course for developers has appeared on the devtodev analytical platform. This time it is dedicated to the basic basics of level design. The curator of the course is Oleg Grachev, a leading level designer at Pixonic.

South Korean authorities are unhappy with Apple. Last month, they ordered her and Google to relax payment rules in app stores. Google agreed to make concessions, but Apple did not change anything. Now Korean officials are preparing to investigate Tim Cook‘s company.

Blender uses a special fund to develop and support its tools. Now Apple is among the main sponsors. The company’s funds will be used to develop the key components of Blender and add new functions to it.The fact that Apple will transfer funds to the Blender Development Fund on a monthly basis was announced by the developers of the toolkit on October 14.