After a series of failures at Google and EA, well-known producer and developer Jade Raymond announced the creation of an independent Haven studio. She will develop a new IP. Sony will finance the project.Jade Raymond told about this in the PlayStation blog.

Another wave of cuts in Activision Blizzard. On Tuesday, the company announced the dismissal of 50 employees involved in organizing esports tournaments and other offline events for Overwatch and Call of Duty. But journalist Jason Schreier talked to his own sources and said — in fact, there may be much more dismissed.

On July 1, Google will reduce the commission in the mobile Play store to 15%. As in the case of Apple, there were some reservations, but they are of a completely different nature.

Grand Theft Auto Online has incredibly long downloads. Not so long ago, a user under the nickname t0st wrote that he knows how to reduce them by 70%. His decision was approved by Rockstar, which has already included the programmer’s achievements in the official patch.

The authorities are discussing the creation of a special fund to support Russian online content. It will work by analogy with the Cinema Fund. At the same time, not only TV series creators, but also video game developers will be able to count on subsidies.The plans to create a Fund for Russian online content were reported by RBC with reference to sources familiar with the situation.

Last week, a scandal broke out around FIFA 21, which has already been called EAGate. Electronic Arts employees were accused of selling rare Ultimate Team player cards to individual users. The company launched an internal audit and promised to punish those responsible. However, the problem with loot boxes in FIFA is much deeper.What started EAGate?

How many gamers are there in Russia who want to work in the gaming industry? What areas are they interested in? What do their parents think about it? — Kaspersky Lab decided to answer such questions together with the analytical company Savanta.

The chess boom continues in Twitch. In February, the hours of views of streams on the chess theme jumped 21 times compared to last year. This was largely due to the success of the TV series “The Queen’s Move” released at the end of October.

At the end of last year, a new publisher of hyper—casual games appeared – Hoopsly. It was founded by Sergey Drozhzhin, CEO 3D.RU , and Nikita Guk, previously responsible for the development of the Playgendary and Pixonic brands. The company has already managed to get a “residence permit” in Dubai and attract $ 5 million. We talked with Nikita about the history of Hoopsly and the features of the hyper-casual market.

The next fiscal year (April 2021 — March 2022) could be extremely successful for Nintendo. According to Bloomberg, the Japanese company plans to sell about 250 million games for Switch during this time. If everything works out, the company will set a new sales record. However, analysts do not share this optimism.

The government is discussing a new measure to support the IT sector. Now, scheduled inspections can be completely canceled for domestic industry companies. It is assumed that this will create more comfortable conditions for the IT business.We are talking about inspections of Rospotrebnadzor, the Social Insurance Fund, fire supervision, labor inspection and other organizations.

It seems that Genshin Impact is very popular in China. A campaign related to the game started in local KFC last week. There were many people willing to participate. So much so that in some cities the police had to intervene.

Blizzard‘s next novelty may be a multiplayer first-person shooter. This is hinted at by the company’s job descriptions. There are few details yet, but the developers say they will have to work on a “really cool” project.

By the end of February App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Marketing company AdSide Media shared with App2Top.ru the most effective types of advertising creatives for mobile games.

Sensor Tower analysts have prepared a report on the most profitable mobile games of last month. PUBG Mobile became the February leader at the box office, which together with its Chinese version of Game For Peace earned $ 250 million. Also in the top of the best was the project of the Russian Playrix.

The Russian bagel Loop Hero has performed well in sales. The game has sold over 500 thousand copies sold in just a week since its release.

Not only the Russian authorities can tighten the screws. Already this June, Google is introducing a “tax on bloggers.” We are talking about rules that will oblige all owners of YouTube channels to make deductions in favor of the United States from the income received from American users. This will also affect Russians.

Roblox shares appeared on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The company entered the market not through an IPO, but by choosing an alternative in the form of a direct listing. Against this background, its valuation has grown to an astronomical $45.2 billion — this is significantly more than that of Electronic Arts ($37.43 billion) and Unity ($27.76 billion).