The Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis, which developed the NFT game Axie Infinity, conducted a Series B financing round. The company received $ 150 million in investments from investors, and its market capitalization was estimated at $ 3 billion.

Who owns in—game items and how international legislation relates to them, – says in his column for App2Top.ru Alexey Vikharev, lawyer at VERSUS.legal.

The Xbox ranks may be replenished with new companies. The network started talking that Microsoft is eyeing the purchase of three more game studios: Crystal Dynamics, IO Interactive and Avalanche Studios. All of them are currently working on projects for the corporation.

The founder of the indie studio UnifiQ Games analyzed the Kickstarter campaign of his game Operation Outsmart. It turned out to be a complete failure — in two weeks it was possible to collect barely 10% of the desired amount. However, the developer did not despair and decided to tell about the main mistakes he made during crowdfunding.Operation Outsmart

It seems that Facebook has asked developers to make a number of changes to the VR version of Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2. The authors have removed some phrases and jokes from the dialogues that they considered sexist and obscene. Also, the final scene completely disappeared from the game. Fans called this approach censorship.

The creator of streaming tools StreamElements has attracted $ 100 million in investments and spent part of the funds on the acquisition of Paragon. The company specializes in promoting YouTube channels and creating digital creatives.

The best-selling game of last week on Steam was New World. The Amazon Games project is located on four lines in the chart at once: on the first three and fifth.

What happens in game marketing in the Western market is generally known. The situation with the promotion of games in China is much less covered. This is what we talked about with Maxim Laba, the regional director of the Nativex agency, which specializes in UA in its native China.

Epic Games intends to make the Internet and online games safer for children. To do this, the company has opened free access to its Kids Web Services (KWS) service. With its help, parents can confirm their identity and consent to the processing of children’s personal data.Epic Games announced this together with its company SuperAwesome.

1939 Games, known as the creator of the collectible card game KARDS, is porting its project to mobile devices. The investors of the developers were companies from South Korea and Northern Europe.

By the end of September App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Dyson Sphere Program is another hit created by Chinese developers. For eight months in early access on Steam, the number of copies of the title sold exceeded 1.7 million. This made it one of the best-selling Chinese indie games this year.Dyson Sphere Program was released in early access on January 21.

Voodoo announces the beginning of expansion into the casual games market. The French publisher acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum. She specializes in board and card games for mobile platforms. Its monthly revenue exclusively from IAP can be about $4 million.

MOBA is one of the most monetary subcategories of mobile strategies. According to Sensor Tower, for the first half of the year, the total revenue of such titles amounted to $ 2 billion. Among the most successful projects were Honor of Kings, Brawl Stars and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

Indie game developers on the GameMaker Studio 2 engine have a simplified way to publish their projects. To do this, Opera launched the GXC platform. It will allow you to publish titles for free by exporting them from the engine directly to the browser.In the announcement, the company noted that this is the first step towards creating synergy between GameMaker Studio 2 and the Opera GX gaming browser.

Playco became the owner of Goodboy Digital, the developer of the PixiJS HTML5 engine. With its help, the startup plans to create multiplayer instant games. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Yesterday on App2Top.ru There was a live broadcast with Nexters co-founder Boris Herzovsky and Nexters Boost executive producer Max Postnikov. We talked about their new investment program, what selection criteria it has and how much money developers can get. We also discussed the situation on the gaming market in Russia and the CIS. We share a recording of the broadcast and an excerpt from it.

The showcase at the conference is one of the most accessible tools for promoting games. About the specifics of participating in it, — we talked with experienced developers in the light of the upcoming WN Moscow’21 (she is collecting applications from developers until Friday).

Analyst Daniel Ahmad told how the recent actions of the Chinese authorities may affect the local gaming industry. Due to the increased control over the industry, it will be much more difficult for developers to circumvent the current restrictions. And the state intends to close the last loopholes for them.Honor of Kings