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News August 24, 2022

Phil Spencer expects that game exclusives will be released less and less often

During a conversation with Bloomberg, the head of Xbox also touched on the topic of games. In his opinion, in the future, exclusives will be replaced by titles with crossplay support, although not everyone likes them now.
News August 24, 2022

Phil Spencer is pleased with the progress in negotiations with regulators on the purchase of Activision Blizzard

The head of Xbox told about this in an interview with Bloomberg. Spencer stressed that he had never made a deal worth almost $70 billion before and did not know how antitrust regulators behave in such cases. But it seems to him that so far everything is going well.
News August 24, 2022

Horizon Forbidden West leads the UK retail chart for the third week in a row

Note that over the past week, the chart as a whole has hardly changed. Unless GTA V returned to it, while Two Point Campus dropped out of the top ten bestsellers, falling to 14th place.
Vacancies August 24, 2022

Vacancies of the week: Beresnev Games, SIDUS HEROES and DOCET TI are looking for employees

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: Marketing director at Beresnev Games, advertising creative manager at SIDUS HEROES and a leading UX/UI artist at DOCET TI.
News August 24, 2022

In September, Rogue Games will switch to a four-day working week

Rogue Games is an American publisher known for The Last Case of Benedict Fox and Cookie Cutter. He is confident that thanks to the new schedule, employees will increase productivity.
News August 24, 2022

The authors of A Space for the Unbound accused the British publisher PQube of fraud

Indonesian studio Mojiken and publisher Toge Productions have terminated their contract with PQube. They stated that the publisher secretly received a grant allocated to them and did not honestly transfer the money.
News August 24, 2022

Meta* launches Meta Accounts for VR Headsets

Owners of VR headsets from Meta* will soon be able to no longer use social media accounts to log in. Yesterday, the company officially announced that special Meta accounts will be available to users in the near future.
News August 24, 2022

Mobile Metaverse apps earned $650 million in six months

Almost the entire amount went to the games. According to Sensor Tower calculations, they accounted for 94% of user spending in such applications for the first half of 2022.
News August 24, 2022

Bethesda and Obsidian veterans have opened their own studio. It’s called Something Wicked Games

Its launch was announced on the evening of August 23 during the opening ceremony of the Gamescom exhibition. Among the founders of the studio is Jeff Gardiner, head of development of Fallout 76 and producer of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
News August 24, 2022

Media: 74 lawsuits were filed against Game Insight due to unpaid wages. The company owes 70 million rubles

Employees of the Russian division of Game Insight appealed to the court, Kommersant reports. They have not received a salary since the end of June, when it became known about the studio’s plans to leave Russia.
Law August 23, 2022

What you need to know about assurances and guarantees in contracts for publishing and attracting investments — REVERA column

What is the section “assurances and guarantees” in contracts related to the publication of the game and attracting investments, — told in the column for App2Top.ru senior lawyer Anastasia Akulich and lawyer Alexandra Kovaleva from the REVERA Legal group.
News August 23, 2022

The developers of avatars for the metaverse have raised $56 million. Among the investors are the co—founders of Roblox, King and Twitch

Andreessen Horowitz, Endeavour, Konvoy Ventures and a number of other companies have also invested their money in the project.
News August 23, 2022

Meta* learned about the antitrust lawsuit over the purchase of Within Unlimited from a tweet with the news

Bloomberg writes about this with reference to sources close to the company. According to them, Meta* handed over “hundreds of pages” of documents to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) when it informed about the deal, while the regulator itself did not even warn about plans to sue.
Investments and transactions August 23, 2022

Azur Games invested in French mobile developers Pinpin Team

The developer and publisher of mobile games Azur Games has signed a deal with Pinpin Team. He acquired 30% of the French company and promised it strategic support. How much such a purchase cost is not disclosed.
News August 23, 2022

88% of applications in RuStore use trackers. Most of them are in games

According to the report of the Information Culture organization, 93.8% of applications with trackers use American trackers like Google AdMob. However, the trackers of Yandex, VK and other Russian companies are also popular — they are used in 58% of cases.
News August 23, 2022

Capcom wanted to make Resident Evil 7 a service game with microtransactions, but the developers dissuaded her

Such memories were shared by Jun Takeuchi, the executive producer of the game. According to him, Capcom marketers believed that it was necessary to create projects that gamers were asking for, i.e., multiplayer games-services with downloadable content and microtransactions.
News August 23, 2022

MY.GAMES Store and MY.GAMES Cloud will become part of VK Play

According to VK, both services will be part of VK Play in September. They will retain their functionality, but MY.GAMES Cloud will be renamed VK Play Cloud.
News August 23, 2022

Role-playing action Mortal Rite collected 61.7 thousand vishlist on Steam using TikTok

A marketer from Round Toast Studios spoke in detail about the promotion of the title to game expert Simon Carless. According to him, the indie studio did not buy advertising and did not pay third-party marketing agencies.
News August 23, 2022

Sales of Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak exceeded 4 million copies

A little less than two months have passed since the release of the add-on.
News August 23, 2022

German Stratosphere Games “raised” over €3 million

Another news about investments. Stratosphere Games studio has closed a funding round in which Riot Games, 1Up Ventures and Skycatcher participated. She also received a grant from the German Games Fund.
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