The analytical company GameRefinery has published a report on the main news and changes that have occurred in major mobile projects in October. The data relate to the markets of the USA, China and Japan.US Market

The new Supercell game earned $1 million in softlonch. Apparently, this was not enough. The Finnish giant has announced that it will close the Hay Day Pop project, which has not been released worldwide, in the winter of 2021.

Developers of fan games for free Cave Story are forced to curtail their work. Nicalis, the publisher of Metroidvania’s paid ports, accused these projects of copyright infringement.

Yesterday it became known that Huawei will support indie developers who work with the AppGallery store. A representative of the Russian division of the company said App2Top.ru about the terms of the promotion and ways to support independent projects.The total prize fund of the promotion is € 30 thousand.

The Canadian media portal Visual Capitalist told what has been happening with video games over the past fifty years. The company reflected the main events in the infographic.

On paper, the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5. However, the first tests show that the multiplatform now works better and more stable on the Sony console. The reasons are banal. First: game developers had less time to optimize games for a Microsoft device. Second: less convenient tools and weaker documentation for it. This was told by The Verge, after talking with various teams that were preparing new releases for the latest…

The British mobile publisher Kwalee has shared a new record. Downloads of his hyper-casual titles have passed the half a billion mark.

Phil Spencer talked about the process of making deals with developers in a new interview with The Verge. The head of Xbox admitted that the company is in search of the perfect financial model for the Game Pass and seeks to increase the number of hours that subscribers spend in games.At the moment, Microsoft does not have a clear model and strategy of how much to pay developers for the presence of their games in…

The Indian government continues to ban mobile applications created by developers from China. This time, AliExpress, Alipay and about forty other projects fell under the knife. There are also games on the Indian blacklist.

Creating an exciting hyper-casual is not as easy as it seems, says Tomer Geller, the leading game designer at Supersonic Studios. In his column on Gamasutra, he shared four key principles that developers should follow during prototyping. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

Square Enix will launch a special program that will allow you to transfer most of the employees to permanent remote work without loss of efficiency. The company plans to adapt to the realities of the “new world” and make remote access a new standard.The Japanese publisher will divide all employees into remote (at least three times a week they work from home) and office (at least three times a week they work from the office).

Bossa Studios will cut 15% of its staff during the restructuring. The company explains this by the need to adapt to the recent trends in the industry. At the same time, over the past few months, almost a quarter of the employees have already left the studio.

Now the Chinese gaming industry is dominated by Tencent and NetEase. However, now ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched its own store and plans to compete with them by independently developing and releasing projects.Own store and publishing house

The other day, the social networks “Odnoklassniki“, “VKontakte” and “My World” summed up the results of the Games Cup 2020, a tournament between developers of HTML5 games. Out of 150 applications, the organizers selected 8 winning games. A prize fund of 2 million rubles was distributed among them.

Apple has posted the schedule of its Christmas weekend. During them, the App Store will not accept applications for publishing and updating applications.

Another game studio has appeared in Canada. Among its founders is Mike Laidlaw, who at one time served as creative director of the Dragon Age franchise (Bioware). He was also joined by three people from Ubisoft.

Collaboration between musicians and developers is reaching a new level. Labels have moved from simply licensing songs to adding artists to games and other large-scale collaborations. Warner Music spoke about working with developers and explained why such cooperation is beneficial to both sides.

Google and Nvidia have announced that their cloud gaming services will appear on iOS in the form of web applications. At the same time, GeForce Now already works on Apple devices, and the company itself plans to release a special version of Fortnite adapted for control on smartphones.GeForce Now and Stadia decided to follow the path of Amazon’s Luna service, which appeared on iOS in the form of PWA, a progressive web application.

Last year, the revenue of the Singapore startup Habby grew 181 times, thanks to the success of the original Archero mobile game. The founders of the studio told Tech in Asia how experiments with genres and title monetization helped the company achieve explosive growth.