App Annie has published the top 52 highest-grossing mobile publishers in the world according to the results of the previous year. Playrix is in 3rd place, Mail.Ru Group on the 51st.

The analytical company SuperData has published a report on sales of VR devices for the fourth quarter of 2020. Oculus Quest 2 is leading by a large margin, which was bought by over 1 million people.Oculus Quest 2, which went on sale in October last year, sold 1 million copies in three months.

This month Blizzard will host the BlizzCon Festival, which will be held online for the first time. The company revealed details of the free event and promised to show several “epic announcements”.

Another Google project was under attack. The corporation announced that it was discontinuing game development for Stadia and closing internal studios. The platform itself will continue to work for now, but without exclusives.

The launch of the PlayStation 5 in Japan turned out to be a record low, and local players were dissatisfied with the company’s increased attention to the western market. However, Platinum Games studio is confident that Sony’s new strategy will not affect the attitude of Japanese developers to the platform in any way.Atsushi Inaba, the head of Platinum Games, spoke about this in an interview with Video Games Chronicle.

Nexters, a publisher and developer of mobile games based in Russia, becomes a public company. It enters the market not through an IPO, but through a merger with the SPAC firm Kismet Acquisition One. After the transaction is completed in the second quarter of 2021, Nexters shares will be traded on the Nasdaq exchange.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, announced on the social network Clubhouse about the latest achievements of his startup Neuralink. His scientists implanted a wireless chip into the monkey’s brain, thanks to which the animal can play Pong with the power of thought.

Sony continues to selectively abandon the exclusivity of some of its titles. The MLB baseball simulator The Show 21, which was previously released only on PlayStation, will also appear on Xbox for the first time. This is hinted at, among other things, by the cover of the game merged into the network.The covers of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox One versions of the game were shared by a well-known insider Anerdydad.

Valve is on the verge of a new trial. This time, Steam owners are accused of “abusing the market power of the platform.” They say that the company prohibits developers from lowering the prices of their games in other digital stores.

Nintendo has shared the results for three fiscal quarters (April — December 2020). The company managed to increase all key indicators. Its revenue for nine months exceeded $ 13 billion, and digital sales doubled.General data for three quarters

There are only a few weeks left before the introduction of new rules regarding IDFA. Apple said that the privacy policy on its platform will take effect immediately after the release of the iOS 14 beta update.

Psychological horror The Medium, developed by the Polish studio Bloober Team, showed an excellent start. The game was released last Thursday, January 28, and by Friday the title had recaptured the costs of production and marketing.

We continue the mini-series of interviews within the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the game market. This time we talked with Mikhail Isidorov, Head of Products at Wargaming Nexus.

This year, new rules regarding IDFA will be launched on iOS. Liftoff marketing company told how much these changes will affect Android. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

The total revenue of Brawl Stars has crossed the $1 billion mark, according to Sensor Tower. At the same time, Russia has become the leader in the number of downloads of the game.Braw Stars is already the fourth game “unicorn” of Supercell.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the revenues of developers around the world. Australia is no exception. Revenue of Australian game studios exceeded $140.4 million last year.

Rovio has announced the closure of its cloud mobile gaming Hatch. The developers of Angry Birds wanted to make it a “gaming Netflix”, but for several years it remained unprofitable.Gamasutra noticed that the company simply announced the closure of the project in a banner on the official website: “Hatch stopped working on December 31.

The last three fiscal quarters (April-December 2020) have been the most profitable in history for Capcom. During this time, the Japanese corporation earned $ 622 million. This result was achieved thanks to the success of Resident Evil 3 and Monster Hunter World: Iceborn.

The Epic Games team talked about what 2020 was like for its digital store. The report contains detailed statistics with business indicators and a few plans for this year. Spoiler: Weekly game giveaways will continue in 2021.