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

Two months after the launch, Genshin Impact still holds the title of the best-selling mobile game in the world, not counting Honor of Kings. During this time, she collected $393 million only in the App Store and Google Play.

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.

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

China’s gaming industry remains one of the fastest growing in the world. The turnover of the local video game market in the third quarter exceeded $10 billion, and more than half of this amount fell on mobile.Note: information about the state of the market was published by the South China Morning Post, and the State Association of Audio-video and Digital Publishing was engaged in compiling the report.

While the developers of Among Us are in no hurry to localize the game into Chinese, its clone called Werewolf Among Us has become the most downloaded mobile title in the country. The project completely copied the mechanics of the original, changing only the setting.Screenshot from Werewolf Among Us

This year, the Chinese mobile title Honor of Kings celebrates its fifth anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, Tencent shared a new achievement of the project — the DAU of the game has passed the milestone of 100 million.

Genshin Impact has become one of the largest launches in the history of mobile games. In its first month, the title raised $245 million. This is more than it was at the start of Fortnite, Lineage 2: Revolution and Fire Emblem Heroes.

Valve may be preparing to merge the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If this happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (now only dozens of foreign titles are licensed per year).Prerequisites for the merger and possible consequences

Party Animals is a new competitive game, the demo version of which has already become a hit on Steam. Even before the official release of the online project, it exceeded 100 thousand people, which became a record for a game developed in China.The Party Animals demo was available for free on Steam from October 4 to October 13.

The US government is still unable to make progress in blocking WeChat. The magistrate’s court ruled that the actions of the authorities would be a direct violation of freedom of speech, and therefore the messenger will continue to work in the United States.Judge Laurel Beeler responded to the Trump administration’s motion to lift the preliminary ban on blocking WeChat.

Genshin Impact from the company miHoYo has already earned over $ 100 million largely due to the use of gacha mechanics. The founders of the studio told how they began to focus on anime gamers and why in—game purchases in their projects are “payment for love”.Background and philosophy of miHoYo

Genshin Impact, which is distributed for free and has already earned several million dollars, continues to set records. In just four days, the game has been downloaded 17 million times on mobile devices alone.UPDATED: According to the latest App Annie data, in the first week after the release, the number of Genshin Impact installations exceeded 23 million.

In just a couple of days, Genshin Impact earned several million dollars. Analysts predict that the project, which was often compared to Zelda before its release, will be the largest global launch for a game developed in China.

Last weekend, the first International Conference of the Games was held in Beijing. Local officials also spoke at it, who announced plans for further regulation and development of the video game industry.The conference was also attended by representatives of such large companies as NetEase, Tencent, Activision Blizzard, Sony and Microsoft.

A Reuters source reports that PUBG Mobile has little chance of returning to India. Even revoking the rights to publish the game in the region from Tencent is unlikely to help lift the ban.The South Korean company PUBG Corporation was forced to revoke the license to publish the game in India from Tencent after 118 Chinese applications were blocked in the country in early September amid a border conflict.

Before the release in China, the creators of mobile games Genshin Impact and Rise of Kingdoms removed their projects from local Android stores, which belong to smartphone manufacturers. Developers are protesting against the high commission, which is 50%.What happened and why?

The sexist statements of the CEO of the studio that develops Black Myth: Wukong, forced attention to this problem in China. The South China Morning Post interviewed women from the industry who faced sexism during work or matches in online games.

Now HTML5 games in China are experiencing a new wave of popularity. The revenue growth of mini-applications in WeChat over the past six months amounted to 18%. Local publisher Yodo1 spoke about the advantages and prospects of the platform for third-party developers.Yodo1’s material is based on a speech by Li Qing, a product manager at WeChat, who shared information about the growth in the number of users and their gaming preferences inside the application.