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Games August 20, 2021

High Commission and Platform Capitalism: How Roblox Exploits Young Developers

Today, the number of UGC games in Roblox exceeds 20 million. The company itself regularly talks about the possibility of earning real money for young developers. However, in fact, the platform hides many pitfalls. The author of the People Make Games channel spoke about the means by which Roblox exploits and manipulates children.

Games August 19, 2021

Sensor Tower: In June, gamers spent over $42 million in Clash Royale

Sensor Tower analysts talked about the new successes of Clash Royale. In June, the Supercell game earned $42.5 million in the App Store and Google Play. The last time this happened was in 2019 after the introduction of the battle pass strategy.

Games August 18, 2021

World of Warships streamers announced a boycott of developers amid complaints about loot boxes and gambling

A scandal broke out in the World of Warships community related to the monetization policy of Wargaming. Players complain about a large number of loot boxes, randomness and criticize the game for introducing gambling mechanics. Against the background of discontent, dozens of streamers announced a boycott of developers and withdrew from the affiliate program.

Games August 16, 2021

Sensor Tower: Merge Mansion revenue reached $38.6 million, and downloads – 10.7 million

Last September, Metacore studio released Merge Mansion, a mobile game with meta in the spirit of Homescapes. Sensor Tower analysts estimate that to date, the title has earned almost $40 million, and its combined downloads in the App Store and Google Play have exceeded 10 million.

Games August 16, 2021

Chinese Naraka: Bladepoint topped the Steam Bestseller Chart

Back 4 Blood did not hold the leading position in the weekly chart of the best-selling games on Steam. The new leader was the Chinese battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint, which, thanks to two different publications, was immediately on the first and fourth lines of the rating.

Games August 13, 2021

Peak online Naraka: Bladepoint on the day of release exceeded 70 thousand people

Yesterday, the release of the battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint, the debut game of the Chinese studio 24 Entertainment, took place. During the day of the online project on Steam, he overcame the milestone of 70 thousand people.

Games August 13, 2021

TiMi Studios is working on the mobile Age of Empires. This is the first joint project with Xbox Game Studios

Xbox Game Studios and TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent, have announced their first joint project. They will develop a mobile version of Age of Empires. According to analysts, such a partnership will help Xbox strengthen in the Asian market and attract a new audience to its “big” franchises

Games August 11, 2021

The 10 highest-grossing mobile games in history according to Sensor Tower

Publication PocketGamer.biz published a list of the 10 highest-grossing mobile games in history. The rating is based on data from the Sensor Tower analytical company. In the first place is the Chinese MOBA Honor of Kings, whose revenue is approaching $ 10 billion.Note: The data are taken for the period from January 1, 2014 to July 31, 2021.

Games August 9, 2021

Rumor: Bethesda has opened a studio to produce remasters and remakes of its games

Bethesda may be planning to release a number of remasters and remakes of its games. To do this, the company has opened a separate studio, according to one of the insiders. This would be a logical step for Bethesda, given the large number of classic IP at its disposal. However, this rumor should still be treated with caution.

Games August 9, 2021

Ace Attorney Creator: Franchise Inspired Many Players to Become Lawyers

At the end of July, the western release of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a spin—off of The Ace Attorney detective game series, took place. In honor of this, director and screenwriter Shu Takumi told how he came up with the concept of the franchise and how the court in his game differs from the real one.

Games August 9, 2021

Back 4 Blood took the first place in the chart of the best-selling games on Steam

Last week, the Steam bestseller chart was topped by the zombie shooter Back 4 Blood. The previous leader of New World is still in the ranking, but now pre-orders of two of his publications have dropped to the seventh and eighth lines.

Games August 6, 2021

The number of downloads of games by the hyper-casual publisher Rollic Games has exceeded 1 billion

Rollic Games has announced a new achievement. The total number of downloads of all games in the portfolio of the hyper-casual publisher exceeded 1 billion. Some of the titles of the Turkish company have also passed the 100 million downloads mark.In total, there are 15 mobile titles in the Rollic Games portfolio.

Games August 2, 2021

Genshin Impact developers had to launch a second server in Discord — the first one ran out of space

Genshin Impact reached a new peak of popularity last week. Its official Discord server has gained an audience of 800 thousand people – it is simply impossible to do more. As a result, the authors of the game from the studio miHoYo had to open a second server for her.

Games August 2, 2021

New World tops the Steam Bestseller Chart for the second week in a row

The best—selling game of the week on Steam turned out to be New World again – pre-orders of two of its editions kept the first two lines of the chart. But the rest of the rating has changed a lot. The only game besides New World that managed to stay in the top ten bestsellers was GTA V.

Games July 30, 2021

The Witcher: Monster Slayer scored a million downloads and earned over $500 thousand in the first week

In the first seven days since the release of The Witcher: Monster Slayer was downloaded a million times, analysts at Sensor Tower calculated. They also found out that the revenue of the mobile AR game in the Witcher universe in the debut week exceeded $ 500 thousand.

Games July 27, 2021

The Witcher: Monster Slayer has passed the mark of 500 thousand downloads on Google Play

The Witcher: Monster Slayer is a new mobile AR game in The Witcher universe. Developers are not in a hurry to share metrics yet, focusing on fixing numerous bugs. However, the project itself has already crossed the mark of 500 thousand downloads on Google Play in less than a week after the release.The Polish business publication drew attention to this Bankier.pl .

Games July 26, 2021

Kojima Productions has revealed data on Death Stranding sales. The game’s circulation exceeded 5 million copies

Until today, the exact number of copies of Death Stranding sold remained unknown. On the eve of the release of the expanded version, Kojima Productions decided to share official data. Since its release, the game has sold over 5 million copies on PS4 and PC, which can be considered a good result.About this in an interview with GamesIndustry.

Games July 26, 2021

Insider: Krafton is working on “Korean The Witcher”

PUBG developers decided to follow in the footsteps of CD PROJEKT and create a “Korean The Witcher“. This is how Krafton described a new project that will be based on the series of Korean fantasy novels “The Bird that Drinks Tears”.

Games July 26, 2021

New World from Amazon Games topped the chart of the best-selling games on Steam

New World is leading the Steam bestseller chart this week. Thanks to various publications, pre-orders of MMORPG from Amazon Games took the first two lines in the rating at once.

Games July 23, 2021

WoW players organized protests against Activision Blizzard amid accusations of discrimination against female employees

Fans of World of Warcraft decided to draw attention to the accusations against Activision Blizzard related to discrimination against women and harassment at work. To do this, they staged a protest right in the game and demanded that all references to the former creative director be removed from it.The online action was organized by the guild Fence Macabre, according to the publication Polygon.