Mobile publisher and developer Jam City will become a public company. The SPAC firm DPCM Capital will help him in this. Thanks to the deal, the capitalization of the authors of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery will reach $ 1.2 billion.

Such data was shared by Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department in the App Store. He declined to give the exact amount, saying it would be “inappropriate.”

Apple actively helped with the promotion of Fortnite in the App Store, said Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department at the App Store. It is not known how much the company has spent on marketing the title for the entire time of its existence, but from October 2019 to August 2020, it invested $ 1 million. Lauren Moskowitz, a lawyer at Epic Games, described it as a “bargain.”

Apple‘s lawyers have asked the court to dismiss one of the ten main points in the Epic Games lawsuit. In it, the authors of Fortnite claim that the promotion of the game on iOS is necessary for effective business development.

During the meeting, Craig Federighi said that there are “unacceptably many” malware on Mac computers. This is due to the openness of their operating system — Mac users can download applications not only from the App Store.

Developers from People Can Fly reported that over 3.5 million people played Outriders in the first month after the release. Square Enix was pleased with the results of the cooperative shooter and now considers it for itself as a new potential franchise.Along with the data on the number of unique players, People Can Fly shared other statistics.

Embracer Group has published a detailed report for the fiscal year that ended on March 31. The Swedish holding company announced the success of Valheim (its circulation reached almost 7 million copies) and its other games, revenue and profit growth, as well as ambitious plans for new M&A deals.Valheim

Reach3 Insights, together with Lenovo, conducted a study on female gamers. In addition to preferred genres and other behavioral features, it turned out that almost 60% of women specifically hide their gender when playing online. They do this to avoid unnecessary conflicts and harassment from men.The study was based on a survey of 900 women from China, Germany and the USA.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive continues to search for new studios for acquisition and investment. For these purposes, the company raised €70.35 million through the sale of its own shares.Curse of the Dead Gods

At the end of April, Apple simultaneously with the launch of the iOS 14.5 update launched a new privacy policy. The Post-IDFA Alliance, a coalition of advertising services and platforms, reported that after that, advertising on iOS fell in price, and on Android it rose sharply.

The trial between Epic Games and Apple sheds light on an increasing number of internal details of the companies. During it, expert witness Lorin Hitt shared that 62% of all App Store revenue comes from purchases in games.

After the scandalous release of Cyberpunk 2077, several law firms filed class-action lawsuits against CD Projekt on behalf of disgruntled investors. Now four of them have been combined into one. Its amount is still unknown.CD Projekt announced the court’s decision in a new report on its official website.

The Shadow Fight Arena game from Nekki and Banzai Games studios was selected by Netflix for integration into the new Jupiter’s Legacy series, which is based on the superhero comic book series of the same name. Nekki Business Development Director Nikita Korzhavin told in his column on App2Top.ru how does the company manage to “appear on TV” and does it have a chance to create its own series based on the Shadow Fight universe.

Proceedings on the case of harassment in Ubisoft are due to begin this month. The company assures that it has taken many measures to improve the corporate culture and continues to work on correcting the situation. However, some employees claim that nothing has changed at Ubisoft, since the management still covers individual managers.Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

The analytical company Niko Partners calculated that by mid—May 2021, Tencent had managed to conclude over 50 deals with gaming companies. This is already 1.6 times more than in the whole of 2020, and five times more than in 2019. In their new study, analysts told what forces the Chinese colossus to invest so actively in the industry.

MY.GAMES has compiled a portrait of a Russian gamer by the end of 2020. To do this, the company conducted a survey in which about two thousand players aged 15 to 44 years took part. According to the results of the survey, it turned out that the majority of gamers in Russia are men (59%).

Bad Robot Games, the gaming division of the J. J. Abrams film company, has closed a Series B funding round. The studio received more than $40 million from investors, including Tencent.

Several American publications spoke at once about the situation around the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Some of the publications later disappeared from the sites. IGN employees, whose post was also deleted, wrote an angry letter to the leadership demanding the return of a note calling for help to the Palestinians. Other representatives of the gaming industry also reacted to this.How did it all start?

Accendo Capital, one of Remedy‘s investors, has sold 500,000 shares of the Finnish hits forge to Tencent. This is 3.8% of Remedy’s outstanding shares and votes.