Details have been published about the upcoming conference by WN Media Group in China. It will take place on November 21-22 in the city of Xiamen, with key participants including KRAFTON, MY.GAMES, IGDA, AppsFlyer, and the local municipal government.

MobileGamer has highlighted a large number of games that Playrix is preparing for a possible launch. Considering how long it has been since the company released new products, following our colleagues, we decided to take a closer look at the projects we can expect from the creators of Gardenscapes and Homescapes.

One of the speakers at the “Game Industry” conference was Alexey Kopcev, CEO of the studio Cyberia Nova. He spoke about the development of “Smuta,” the organization of processes within the company, and the conclusions the team made after the release.

App2Top, with the participation of the educational platform WN Academy, conducted a study dedicated to education in the game development industry. We share the results.

The release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a failure—Warner Bros. Discovery, the game’s publisher, stated in its latest financial report that the game resulted in losses of $200 million. Journalist Jason Schreier spoke with people close to Rocksteady Studios and found out what went wrong.

The “Green Labeling” of video games, announced last week, uncovered contradictions between the existing young gaming associations in Russia. This has escalated into an open conflict and accusations.

Thomas Mahler, co-founder and CEO of Moon Studios, shared his thoughts on the AAA segment of the gaming industry. He believes that large companies such as Microsoft and Sony should abandon exclusivity. Otherwise, their business risks losing stability.

We analyze in detail one of the main novelties of spring in the mobile games market.

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen has written a program column on the company’s status. He revealed the financial results for 2023 and talked about the new course of development of Supercell.

In accordance with the new law adopted in Europe, Apple has announced a number of innovations in iOS. These include support for third—party stores and payment systems. But there were nuances. Those who want to use the new functionality will have to pay for each installation. For more information about the situation, see our analysis.

The final publication of the year.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with the gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams. Next up is an interview with Pavel Ryakkonen, CEO and founder of WN Media Group.

This year may be one game blockbuster richer. The open beta of the cooperative shooter The Finals attracted an audience of 267 thousand people on Steam. This is almost four times more than I was able to collect at the peak on the Overwatch 2 platform.

This August, the total user spending on Melsoft Games mobile games for the entire time of the company’s operation reached the billion dollar mark. This is reported by the analytical platform AppMagic.

Which business proposals are most often faced by a game publisher, – Yana Vesnina, M&A manager at ZiMAD, told in her column for App2Top.

Organized this year by the Association of Professionals of the Operating and Game Development Industry (A PRIORI) together with the Institute for Internet Development (IRI) and the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives (FRII) is discussing the possibility of creating an acceleration program for game dev. This was stated during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by A PRIORI CEO Alexander Mikheev. Here is an edited version of his speech.

On the second day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a round table was held on the topic “Russian Game development and trends in its development“. One of its speakers was Maxim Parshin, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. We quote his speech in its entirety.

At the end of March, after five years of development, the indie game Gripper was launched. We talked to Kirill Zolovkin, the head of the project and the founder of the Heart Core studio, about its marketing, the road to release and current challenges.

In his traditional newsletter, Simon Carless, for a moment, the former editor-in-chief of Gamasutra, as well as the former vice president of GDC, who runs the GameDiscoverCo agency today, spoke about the main trends in the PC and console games industry. We have a careful translation of his assessment into Russian.