Supercell, which previously supported Ukraine, announced its withdrawal from the Russian and Belarusian markets. The company has already removed titles from stores in these countries.Supercell made such a statement today on its social networks and on the official Braw Stars website.

Gaming companies around the world are actively supporting Ukraine. In particular, money for humanitarian aid was allocated by Ubisoft, Unity and 11 bit studios. We looked at who else has recently decided to make similar donations. UPDATED: Added information about Room 8 Group.

Supercell has always been known for the ability to “kill” unsuccessful games and develop them by small teams. However, the CEO of the company Ilkka Paananen (Ilkka Paananen) called such a concept erroneous. He explained in detail the reasons for its insolvency and outlined a new course of development for Supercell.

Supercell has shared its financial results for 2021. During this period, the Finnish studio earned over $ 2 billion and reported an increase in profits. The company also published data on the total revenue of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale.Revenue reached €1.89 billion ($2.24 billion) — an increase of 46.5% compared to the results for 2020.

The Finnish company Supercell has decided to go beyond mobile. She announced that she is launching a new studio in North America. This division will deal with games, including for PC and consoles.

Popular American blogger MrBeast recreated the trials from the TV series “The Squid Game” in real life. The sponsor of the video, which has already gained almost 130 million views, was Supercell. As a result, downloads of her mobile hit Brawl Stars increased 4.5 times.The video “Playing Squid in real life” was released on YouTube on November 25.

The Finnish studio HypeHype (formerly Frogmind) received $ 15.5 million for the development of its new product — the platform of the same name, on which mobile and PC gamers can create their own games. Supercell gave the money to the company.

At the end of August, Supercell introduced a beta version of its new Everdale game. The authors of the Deconstructor of Fun blog have published a detailed analysis of the project — from gameplay mechanics to monetization and ways to involve players. We present the main points from the material, which also lists the main disadvantages of Everdale.

Supercell has launched a new Everdale game in softlonch. This is a casual urban planning simulator in a fabulous setting, focused on co-passing. If Everdale’s global launch does take place, it will be the first new IP of a Finnish company since Brawl Stars.

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.

Supercell has started issuing licenses for its brands to teams in which it had previously invested. A few days ago, a new project in the Boom Beach universe was released in softlonch. It is made by Space Ape Games, a British studio known for Clash of Clans clones.

Indie studio Metacore has again received a large tranche from Supercell. This time, the Finns opened a credit line for her for $ 180 million. The money will be used to scale Merge Mansion, a project combining merge mechanics with meta in the spirit of Homescapes.

For the fourth year in a row, Supercell‘s revenue is falling. At the same time, most new IP addresses are closed before reaching the world release. Against this background, the Finnish company took drastic measures. Today, on April 2, she announced three new mobile games at once. All of them are based on the Clash brand and all are in the early stages of development.

This year, the Clash Royale League tournament has undergone significant changes, abandoning team competitions. This forced the esports organization Team Liquid to disband its membership in the game and switch attention to content creation.Team Liquid told about this on its official website.

Supercell remains a profitable company, but its EBITDA fell by 21% last year. Ilkka Paananen, CEO of the company, acknowledged the problem of supporting games as services, spoke about the results of the launch of Brawl Stars in China and possible corporate changes.Paananen’s comments appeared in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

The total revenue of Brawl Stars has crossed the $1 billion mark, according to Sensor Tower. At the same time, Russia has become the leader in the number of downloads of the game.Braw Stars is already the fourth game “unicorn” of Supercell.

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.

Another studio attracted investment from Supercell. The Finnish giant has invested $2.8 million in startup 2UP Games, which is working on a cooperative game for mobile platforms.

In honor of the tenth anniversary, the Finnish mobile developer Supercell is releasing a book called “The Art of Supercell”. It will be on sale only in March 2021, but you can pre-order it today.