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News August 9, 2022

V Rising sales reached 2.5 million copies

For almost three months of early access, the vampire survival V Rising has sold 2.5 million copies. Recall that the game took the first million a week after its release, and reached the two million mark three weeks later.
Industry August 9, 2022

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation postponed the experiment to create a domestic analogue of GitHub indefinitely

The ministry planned to launch the experiment on May 1, but “due to difficulties with regulatory support” decided to postpone it.
News August 9, 2022

Unity and Microsoft have announced a collaboration. They will develop the cloud capabilities of developers using Azure

The companies hope that thanks to their cooperation, it will become easier for developers to release games on PC and Xbox consoles. In particular, Unity plans to move some more of its tools to the cloud.
News August 9, 2022

GTA V sales came close to 170 million copies, and the entire series — to 380 million copies

In the quarterly report, Take-Two told, among other things, about its games. The company boasted of sales of a number of franchises and mentioned the transfer of Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
News August 9, 2022

Take-Two ended the quarter with a loss of $104 million and revised its forecast for the year

Take-Two has released its first financial report after Zynga officially joined it. We are looking at how the first quarter of fiscal 2023 passed for the company.
Marketing August 8, 2022

The number of creatives advertising games fell by 27.8% in the first half of 2022

The number of promoted games has also decreased.
News August 8, 2022

Playtika earned $659.6 million in the quarter. More than half of the amount was brought by casual games

Israeli Playtika reported for the second quarter of 2022. Compared to last year, the company’s revenue has changed little — it has grown by $ 400 thousand. While profit fell immediately by $53.6 million to $36.4 million.
Analytics August 8, 2022

AppMagic: the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of July 2022

By the end of July App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.
News August 8, 2022

Over the past two years, there have been three times more game developers in Lithuania

According to the Lithuanian Association of Game Developers, there are now over two thousand game specialists in the country. In 2020, there were only 650 of them.
News August 8, 2022

Square Enix’s Fullmetal Alchemist Mobile has become the second most popular game in the Japanese App Store

On August 4, Square Enix released a smartphone role—playing action based on the manga “Steel Alchemist” – Fullmetal Alchemist Mobile. Japanese gamers (and only they can play for now) warmly welcomed the title. According to the GameLook portal, the game took second place in downloads in the local App Store and is still on it.
News August 8, 2022

Shares of Ice Code Games have doubled in price after the release of Hard West 2

The release of the new part of the mystical western Hard West 2 has had a good impact on the stock price of the Polish Ice Code Games. The game was released on Thursday, August 4, and by Friday the studio’s shares had risen by 61% to 0.79 zloty apiece. On Monday morning, they were trading at a price of 1.08 zloty — an increase of 120%.
News August 8, 2022

Tencent and Ouyu Technology are going to open an esports hotel

According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, the hotel will open in August. It will be based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
News August 8, 2022

Sales of Guilty Gear -Drive- crossed the milestone of a million copies

The fighting game Guilty Gear -Strike – became the best-selling game published by Arc System Works. It also surpassed all other parts of the series in the number of copies sold.
News August 8, 2022

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposed to cancel fines for the sale of equipment without pre-installed Russian applications

Fines until the end of the year can be canceled for equipment that was imported into Russia through parallel import. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to a representative of the ministry.
Games August 8, 2022

Steam sales chart: the first two places are still for Steam Deck and Stray. The third went to the remaster of “Spider-Man”

We are studying the Steam sales chart for 31 weeks of the year.
News August 8, 2022

The main thing for the weekend (August 6-7)

Sony conducted a survey about NFT on PlayStation, a GameStop NFT platform user was caught trading tokens with indie games without the permission of developers, and Meta* suspended a deal with the creators of the Supernatural VR game after a lawsuit from the FTC – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.
News August 5, 2022

99 of the 100 most popular games* of 2021 in the App Store were made based on IP

Mobile developers are actively making games based on existing IP in the hope of breaking into the charts. According to Newzoo estimates, last year only one novelty in the top 100 most downloaded games on iOS did not use IP – Soccer Super Star.
News August 5, 2022

In China, the creators of cheats for Genshin Impact were sentenced to prison

The Shanghai court sentenced three developers who created and sold cheats for Genshin Impact. They were all given different deadlines. The head of the group received four years in prison, one of his assistants — 3 years and 10 months, and the other assistant — 1.5 years.
News August 5, 2022

Bandai Namco has updated its financial forecast — it expects to earn $3.2 billion in six months

Previously, the company was a little more modest. Bandai Namco expected that by September 30 (then it will end the first half of fiscal 2023) it will earn exactly $3 billion in sales.
News August 5, 2022

Garena invested $27 million in Korean VIC Game Studios

It is not reported on what conditions the transaction took place. But it is known that VIC Game Studios is going to invest in the development of new games.
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