As part of the expansion strategy, the French publisher Homa Games announced the opening of the first office in Ukraine. It will be located in Lviv, and the backbone of the team will be made up of former employees of Voodoo, Playgendary and other companies.Together with the opening of the Lviv office, Homa Games intends to attract more Ukrainian developers to its team.

Sensor Tower analytical company has shared a large report on the mobile market for the first quarter of 2021. It turned out that during this period, gamers spent $ 22.2 billion, which is 25% more than a year ago. We tell you what else the analysts found.

On the ArtStation platform, cases of cheating artists have become more frequent. Unknown attackers offer freelancers work on behalf of large gaming companies like Riot Games, Big Fish and 2K, and are tricked into paying for expensive hardware and software worth thousands of dollars. On May 24, Kaspersky Lab drew attention to the problem in its blog.

The trial between Epic Games and Apple ended yesterday. At the final four-hour meeting, the lawyers of both companies made their final arguments in the case. For example, about how the App Store monopoly looks in their eyes.

Miniclip, which is majority owned by the Chinese giant Tencent, has announced an expansion. The company acquired the British developer Supersonic Software, known for games like Puzzle Page and Picture Cross, and its subsidiary studio Appynation.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Italian game studios will be able to compensate up to a million euros from the cost of developing their projects. This was announced by the local government, which intends to introduce a special 25% tax deduction.

Wanted: head of the economic analysis team at Melsoft, producer of the monetization direction at Playgendary and project manager at Plarium.

Today was the release of Biomutant, the debut ARPG from the Swedish studio Experiment 101, which faced a lot of postponements and problems on the way to its “dream game”. Judging by the prevailing number of mixed and negative reviews, there was no miracle. Biomutant is scolded for almost all elements — from basic gameplay mechanics to a boring and empty open world.

Cafe Bazaar is the largest mobile Android store in Iran. The other day, representatives of the platform spoke at the international digital technology exhibition in China, where they talked about their business indicators for 2020. We share the main ones.

Sensor Tower announced the purchase of the analytical marketing platform Pathmatics, which was the first transaction of its kind for the company. Its amount is disclosed. It is known that Sensor Tower will now be able to provide its users with more tools and sources for mobile analytics.Pathmatics confirmed this information on May 24 on its official website.

The last witness in the trial between Epic Games and Apple was Tim Cook. He stayed in the courtroom for at least two hours, the last minutes of which he had to spend in a tense debate with the judge. Among other things, she was interested in why iOS users cannot buy in-game items outside the App Store.

Some players in Apex Legends felt cheated because of the high cost of cosmetic items. Now developers are asking for $18 for one “legend”, which, according to users, is too much. Respawn representatives tried to explain their pricing policy and said that creating “cosmetics” is not cheap.During a series of questions and answers with the developers of Apex Legends on Reddit, one of the users clarified: “Given the growth of the game, can we expect…

The Indian version of PUBG Mobile does not even have a release date yet, and local politicians are again calling for the game to be banned. The reason is the close connection of developers with Tencent and the threat to the security of India.

IIDEA (the Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment) has prepared a report on the state of the Italian gaming industry by the end of 2020. The total market turnover exceeded €2 billion. Despite the growth of the mobile sector, console games bring the main revenue, while the PC remains the most popular platform for development.The IIDEA study is based on an online survey that was conducted from February 24 to April 1, 2021.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition failed to hold a leading position in the list of the best-selling Steam games in the second week of sales. After the release of the PC version of Days Gone, the sci-fi trilogy dropped to second place.

On May 19, Perfect New World, a new MMORPG from Perfect World Entertainment, was released in China. In just one day, the revenue of the game on mobile devices exceeded $ 400 thousand. At the same time, the game will also be available on PC and consoles.

Yesterday, the bank “Sber” held its first technical conference for SmartDev developers. During it, the CEO of the gaming direction, Alice Chumachenko, together with the operating director, Alexander Mikheev, told why the bank needs “Sberbank Games” and how they will work.

A few days ago, Deputy Alexander Khinshtein proposed to oblige large IT companies to open their representative offices in Russia. Now this bill concerning foreign companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russian users has been officially submitted to the State Duma. The preliminary review date is June 1.Khinstein told Interfax about this today.

Yesterday, the award ceremony for the winners of the WN Dev Contest took place — a large-scale competition for European developers, which was organized by the WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Develop conference. We tell you about all the winners. Drake’s Survival Odds: Survive and the adventure game Tchia received the most awards.