Denunciation is honored. China has launched a website to complain about gaming companies and games that do not comply with new restrictions regarding the amount of time children can spend on online entertainment.

Axie Infinity has consolidated its position as the highest-grossing NFT game in the world. According to the latest data, the total volume of trading operations within the project has reached $2.05 billion. The users themselves have already made almost 5 million transactions in the game.The DappRadar portal told about the success of Axie Infinity.

Indie developer and publisher Akupara Games has published a table with the specifications of game trailers. It was originally intended for internal use, but now it has become available to everyone. The table will help you prepare and properly arrange trailers for different platforms.The link to the table was shared by gaming expert Simon Carless in the new issue of his GameDiscoveryCo newsletter.

In September, a new character appeared in Genshin Impact — Shogun Raiden. That’s just his abilities did not match those promised by the company miHoYo. The players didn’t like it. So much so that some users decided to go to court.

On September 9, NetEase published Harry Potter: Magic Awakened in China, a mobile card game with an original combat system. For the whole first week, it holds the first place at the box office in the local App Store.

One studio launched by a journalist has become more. The founder and host of the “Disgusting Men” podcast, Peter Salnikov, announced his retirement from development. In his Book Burner Games studio, he will create a tactical role-playing game. By the way, the team is open to investment proposals.

The consulting firm Naavik and the investment fund BITKRAFT Ventures have estimated that this year the revenue of the video game industry will be $336 billion — twice as much as previously forecast*. They received such a figure after they took into account the income of the gray market, blockchain, advertising, iron sales and many other things that analysts had previously ignored.

AppsFlyer has presented a large report on the audience of mobile applications in the Scandinavian countries. Mobile titles are most often played by women, but men spend money more actively in them. At the same time, Scandinavian gamers in general are extremely reluctant to entrust their personal data to games.Note: AppsFlyer collected data based on a survey of 4,039 users from Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway over the age of 18.

Bandai Namco reported on the first successes of the RPG Tales of Arise. In the first week of sales, the title sold over 1 million copies. Thanks to this, sales of all games in the series exceeded 25 million in more than 100 countries.

Raising funds for future sales is a common scenario in the mobile f2p games market. However, it also works with premium titles on Steam. That’s how the Russian role-playing blockbuster Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous received money for marketing. We talked about the mechanism of attraction and the deal with GamesBoost42, which acted as a financial partner of the game.

tinyBuild has announced the purchase of another Russian studio. Bad Pixel, the developer of the multiplayer shooter Deadside, passes into her hands. The maximum transaction amount may be $17.1 million.

Mike Rose, head of the indie publisher No More Robots, spoke about the principles of development planning. These tips can be useful for aspiring indie studios who have yet to release their first game. Rose gave several formulas for calculating the budget and explained why long-term development risks not paying off.

The publisher of mobile games Azur Games has invested in a previously non-core asset for itself. The company acquired a 15% stake in Neosus Studio, which develops mobile applications of a wide profile (from answering machine to document scanning and wallpaper installation).

AppMagic analysts found out which mobile publishers in Turkey collected the largest box office, and which — the most downloads in the first half of 2021.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused the analytical company App Annie and its former CEO Bertrand Schmitt of fraud. The regulator said they were selling confidential information about customers without their consent.

Activision Blizzard is facing a new lawsuit. This time, the company was sued by its own employees. They accuse her of intimidating employees, suppressing the organization of trade unions and using unfair labor practices.According to the Washington Post, the lawsuit was filed by Activision Blizzard employees in conjunction with the large Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.

In August, American gamers spent $4.37 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to a recent report by NPD Group analysts. Ghost of Tsushima returned to the top three best-selling games, which rose 108 points in the ranking at once. But the first place went to the recently released Madden NFL 22.

Google could have violated labor laws in dozens of countries. The media found out that the corporation for at least two years consciously paid freelance employees less than those who were on the staff. To hide this, she distorted quarterly financial reports.

Alana Pearce, who is currently working on God of War: Ragnarok, decided to remind the players that the writers are also part of the development team. It was supported by many developers from other companies. They stressed that games are made not only by programmers, but also by all studio employees — be they marketers or HR specialists.God of War: Ragnarok