Giveaways in the Epic Games Store are in great demand among gamers. However, only a small part of the audience buys games in the store after them. Epic Games estimated that in the first nine months of EGS operation (December 2018 – September 2019), such users brought her only $53 million – this is 33% of the total revenue of the store.

Yesterday, the trial of Epic Games and Apple began, during which the companies shared a lot of legal documents. One of them contains data on how much Epic paid developers for the first months of free giveaways of their games in the Epic Games Store.

Sony for a long time did not want to support the crossplay function on PlayStation consoles, refusing to share its audience with competitors. In 2019, she changed her mind, but set a condition — game publishers will have to pay a commission.

ArtStation has joined the Epic Games family. That’s how today, on April 30, both companies announced a deal that took place, according to which the developer of Unreal Engine becomes the owner of a social network for digital artists.

Toys For Bob studio, part of Activision Blizzard, will no longer make its own games. Now she will support the third season of Call of Duty: Warzone. Developers are not satisfied with such changes.

About working on events for mobile games on the example of Vikings: War of Clans, — in his column on App2Top.ru the Plarium Krasnodar team told.

Indie studio Wolfire Games, known for the action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, initiated an antitrust class action lawsuit against Valve. The reason was the dominant position of the company in the PC market. The creators of Steam are accused of the fact that the high commission of the store allegedly forces publishers to raise prices and invest less money in development.Overgrowth

Rovio has published a financial report for the first quarter of 2021 (ended March 31). He didn’t do well. Almost all of the company’s indicators have fallen compared to the first quarter of last year. Only revenue has grown. It amounted to €67.1 million.

Marketing company AdSide Media told App2Top.ru , what tools he uses when creating advertising creatives for mobile games.

Today, the official release of the action bagel Returnal took place – a new big PlayStation 5 exclusive. The average score on Metacritic was 86/100. Most of all, the game is praised for its shooter mechanics, addictive gameplay and extensive use of new DualSense features. However, opinions about the plot and sometimes too random races were divided.

Glu Mobile has officially joined Electronic Arts. The entire transaction cost the company $2.4 billion. Thus, a major publisher plans to significantly expand and strengthen its mobile direction.Glu Mobile’s business was valued at $2.1 billion, but the studio had another $364 million in its accounts.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery earned $300 million by its third anniversary, and its combined downloads in the App Store and Google Play amounted to 82 million. Such conclusions were shared by Sensor Tower analysts.

Today, the concept of metaverses in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly popular. Microsoft reported that the authors of content for Minecraft have already earned over $350 million on it. And individual game developers for Roblox earn hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars a year. We tell you what metaverses are and why developers are actively investing in them.

Hyper-casual publisher Rollic Games, part of Zynga, has announced a new purchase. The Turkish studio Uncosoft — the authors of the famous TikTok “runner in heels” High Heels! – passed into his hands.

The story with commissions launched by Epic Games continues to gain momentum. This time in the role of the “destroyer of tranquility” — Microsoft. The company announced that from August 1, the commission of the Windows Store app store will decrease from 30% to 12%. This will only affect games.

iOS users spent the least in the game. The main part of the revenue was generated by console players. The PlayStation 4 gamers were the most generous.

The family of Scapes projects, whose total box office for last March alone amounted to $ 115 million, has arrived. Playrix has announced the release of the casual title Farmscapes, which was developed by the authors of Treasures of Montezuma 3 and Gods&Glory.

They are wanted: a motion designer at Playrix, a community manager at Plarium and a technical game designer at Kefir.

On the eve of the Game Developers Conference 2021 (to be held on July 19-23), the organizers shared a study on the state of the video game industry. They interviewed over three thousand developers about their preferred platforms, working in a pandemic, the need for gaming unions and the fairness of the commission size in stores.