Analysts from GameRefinery told about the main trends of casual games this year. Developers are looking for new ways to engage users and actively add elements from other genres to projects. Among them are meta-gameplay, social functions and seasonal passes.Meta elements

Netflix goes beyond movies and TV shows. According to Bloomberg, the streaming service is launching a gaming direction. The first games on the platform may appear as early as 2022.

Resolution Games studio, which creates VR games, received $25 million from investors. The company plans to spend the collected money on creating games-services in virtual reality.

Wanted: project manager at FunCorp, business development manager at Borscht and leading narrative designer at Game Garden.

Analysts continue to talk about a decrease in the effectiveness of advertising on iOS, which is associated with the new IDFA policy. According to the Consumer Acquisition marketing agency, some developers on the Apple platform have already noticed a 15-20% decrease in revenue after the release of iOS 14.5.The main thing from the report

Microsoft has released an update for Xbox Family Settings, an application that manages children’s accounts on Xbox consoles. Now parents can set a limit on purchases in games or even ban them altogether.

Google wants to attract more developers to Stadia. To do this, the company introduces a new commission system. Now the authors of the new games will pay Google only 15% of the first $3 million in revenue received on its cloud platform. However, there were some nuances.This became known at the Google for Games Developer summit.

Chinese giant Tencent could get even bigger. According to German media, the holding aimed to buy Crytek studio for €300 million. That’s just the profile analysts doubt the reality of the deal.

The company miHoYo decided to do charity work. Together with the Chinese Youth Development Foundation, Genshin Impact developers have launched a program called the Flamescion Public Welfare Project. As part of this program, they have already allocated money for the construction of a new building for an elementary school in Tongzi.

In Africa, as in most other regions, the pandemic and lockdowns provoked an explosive growth of mobile gaming. Compared to the first quarter of last year, local users have become more active in downloading games and making more in-app purchases. This is reported by AppsFlyer in a joint report with Google.Note: The study covers the period from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 (ended March 31).

Where in Russia you can get a state diploma in game development — in the material for App2Top.ru Maria Kochakova, founder and CEO of the Narratorika School of game Screenwriters, told us.

The authorities of many countries are looking for ways to regulate the NFT market. This is exactly what happened to the authors of the game of the South Korean mobile game Five Stars for Klaytn. Local regulators have banned the operation of the project due to the presence of NFT in it. However, the developers eventually managed to win the court and return the game to the store.

Last week — from July 9 to July 10 — an offline WN Conference was held. It took place as part of the hybrid large-scale event WN Eastern Europe. We tell you about the results of the event.

In the new digital era, the question of who will get the game accounts and the items accumulated in them after the death of users is acute. To do this, Tencent has patented a special technology of “digital inheritance”. In theory, it will allow you to transfer in-game assets to people specified in the will.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

After scandals with a massive decline in the rating of games, developers often begin to wonder if this will affect them as well. Some suggest radically solving the problem and completely banning gamers from rating. But according to the authors of the Dusk retroshooter, this can only aggravate the situation.

Google has announced Play as you download, a feature that will allow you to play games without waiting for their final download from Google Play. The innovation will work on devices with Android 12.

Krafton managed to release a new version of PUBG Mobile in India almost a year after it was blocked. The project is now called Battlegrounds Mobile India. Tens of millions of local users are already playing it.Statistics were shared on July 12 by Anuj Tandon, Head of Investment and Corporate Development at Krafton in India and MENA countries.

Of the 3,600 people working at Playrix, about a thousand work on the territory of Ukraine. For comparison, in Belarus — a little more than a hundred.

The total revenue of the gaming industry in the world increased by 10% last year. The audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers expects that this area will continue to grow steadily. According to analysts’ forecasts, by 2025 the volume of the global video game market will approach the $200 billion mark.The main thing from the study