Yesterday, Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard for a record $68.7 billion for the gaming industry. As a result, Sony‘s shares collapsed, and information appeared in the media about the possible departure of Bobby Kotick. We tell you what else happened after the news about the deal.

The Odnoklassniki social network summed up the results of the year of its gaming platform. Total payments to game developers by the end of 2021 amounted to 3.2 billion ($ 43.4 million). A third of this amount — 1.2 billion rubles ($16.3 million) — fell on mobile projects.

In July last year, a scandal broke out around Activision Blizzard about the toxic working atmosphere in the company. Yesterday it became known that since then the publisher has fired more than three dozen employees and brought 40 more people to disciplinary responsibility.

Czech MADFINGER Games, known primarily for AAA games for mobile, decided to make an exclusive for PC. Along with the platform, the company will also change the engine — the novelty will be developed not on Unity, but on Unreal Engine 5.

Indie platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! generated over 17 thousand vishlist before the release. However, the launch turned out to be a complete failure — only 100 copies were sold on the first day. Developer Victor Burgos tried to figure out the reasons for the failure, and industry colleagues joined the discussion.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has released a report on the local IT market. In it, it calculated how many high-tech companies there are in the country. Including games.

On January 4, a cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic appeared in the PlayStation Plus subscription. In the first week, Sony game console owners downloaded the game 6 million times. Before the game appeared in the service, its cumulative sales across all platforms were 3 million copies.

Last October, indie publisher Armor Games offered its employees to temporarily switch to a four-day working week. The experiment was supposed to end on December 31, but the company considered such a schedule convenient and decided never to work on Fridays again.

Riot Games shared the company’s development plan for the next five years. At the same time, the developers of League of Legends made an unusual offer to all employees. Anyone who does not agree with the new vision and goals of the company can quit. As compensation, such a person will be paid 25% of the annual salary.Legends of Runeterra

With the results of Red Brix Wall, we complete our traditional cycle of ready-made results. In this publication, the company’s founder Fedor Zaitsev and partner Zakhar Serebryannikov share the successes of their young studio (for example, the growth of Global City indicators).

Stanislav Sychenkov, lead for ironSource business development in Russia and the CIS, told how the past year has just passed for the marketing company. Among the results are numerous purchases and the launch of solutions for optimizing advertising campaigns.

Today we are completing the cycle of results for 2021. One of the latest publications is from Sergey Trofimov, co—founder of Nordcurrent. He spoke about the company’s new releases and shared plans for the release of future products.

“A video game empire built not by child labor,” is how The Guardian described Roblox in its new material. Using the example of several young developers, the publication talked about how the company turns a blind eye to financial exploitation, intimidation and harassment by adult users.

Roblox had high hopes for the Chinese version of its app. However, recently it became known about its removal from local stores. At the same time, such a decision is unlikely to be connected with the current “freeze” on the issuance of gaming licenses. The company itself only notes that it is currently working on a new version of its platform for China.The Chinese version of Roblox called LuoBuLesi disappeared from mobile stores on December…

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Georgy Egorov and Oleg Poroshin, co-founders of the game studio KEK Entertainment.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO and co-founder of AppFollow.How did 2021 go for the company?

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Samvel Aramyan, head of the Chameleon 42 outsourcing studio.How did 2021 go for the company?

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Kravtsov, CEO and founder of devtodev.How did 2021 go for the company?

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Valeria Alfimova, Chief Revenue Officer at Appodeal Stack.How did 2021 go for the company?