Nexters has shared its financial results for the first time since going public. In the first half of 2021, it increased revenue by more than half. But at the same time, Nexters’ losses also increased — by eight times at once.

The autumn session of the WN Conference will be held in Moscow on October 13-14. It will be held in a hybrid format: participants will be able to discuss the latest news, share expertise and attend lectures both offline and online.

Russian games perform well in sales. Yesterday they got three lines at once in the world’s top 10 Steam bestsellers, including the first one. It’s about Potion Craft and World War Z: Aftermath.

Roblox is preparing to implement voice chat on its platform. However, only users over the age of 13 will be able to use the new feature. To do this, the company has implemented a special age verification system based on documents and photographs.The verification system became available in Roblox on September 21.

GEM Capital acted as an investor in the Moscow game studio VEA Games and allocated $ 2 million for the development of the game Nikoderiko: The Magical World.

The Swedish holding Embracer Group has become the owner of another Russian studio. Through a subsidiary of Saber Interactive, he acquired the Saransk company Bytex. The transaction amount is unknown.

Wanted: game designer at Matryoshka Games, producer at FunPlus and project manager at Last Level.

In August, German indie developer Arnold Rauers switched his games in the App Store to a free-play distribution model. After that, the total monthly revenue of his titles increased by 41%.

Global brands are actively pursuing a course of promotion through the gaming industry. From September 21, a limited collection of clothes and items inspired by the images of the fashion house Balenciaga is available in Fortnite.

Chinese police conducted a major operation to arrest gaming scammers. In total, 469 people were detained during the day, who operated in 35 cities. On behalf of the girls, they lured men into games and forced them to spend money on various cosmetic items.JX Online 3

French startup Sorare raised $680 million. He operates an eponymous NFT game about football, the results of players in which depend on the performances of real athletes. According to the results of the round, the company’s valuation amounted to $4.3 billion.Sorare announced the completion of a new round of investments in its blog.

The harassment and discrimination scandal at Activision Blizzard has attracted the attention of another agency. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched its own investigation into the company.

Electronic Arts (EA) is trying to restore its reputation after the scandals with loot boxes in FIFA Ultimate Team. She decided to introduce content preview packs into games on an ongoing basis — Preview Packs. This system has already appeared in FIFA, but temporarily.

MY.GAMES company has become bigger. She announced the takeover of Bamboo Games, a Belarusian publisher of hyper—casual games. The size of the transaction will be at least $2 million.

Indie developer Jan Wojtecki shared his experience in promoting his Pawnbarian bagel. Having no funds for at least some marketing, he managed to collect more than 10 thousand vishlists on Steam by the release. The developer spoke about working with streamers, game festivals and other effective promotion channels.

In the first half of the year, the App Store has lost a lot of weight. The Pixalate platform found that about 221 thousand applications were missing from the store*. Almost two-thirds of them violated Apple‘s privacy rules.

Alexey Vlasov, technical art director of 1C Entertainment, shared the details of the development of King’s Bounty II. In a fairly short time, the team had to create a number of tools to speed up development and optimization — including procedurally generated vegetation and a special approach to creating hundreds of characters.

Last week, Deathloop climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, displacing Tales of Arise from the first place. The deluxe edition of the title also got to the top — he got the third place. Also, New World and Valheim returned to the top ten best-selling games.

AudioMob has found out how British gamers feel about advertising in mobile games. The vast majority of users stated that they do not like video ads. At the same time, they were not against creatives in the audio format.