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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.
News August 23, 2022

The Sims author’s studio has raised $6 million for blockchain games

Gallium Studios received this amount from the Griffin Gaming Partners venture fund. The money raised will be used to develop two projects — the VOXverse metaverse and the Proxi self-discovery AI simulator.
News August 23, 2022

Shares of Embracer Group fell by 7.1% amid dissatisfaction with the new Saints Row

At the close of the exchange, the shares of the Swedish holding were trading at a price of $6.47 apiece.
News August 23, 2022

CD PROJEKT will build an “eco—friendly town” in Warsaw – an office complex with walls covered with plants

The Witcher developers told Wyborcza about the construction of an unusual office complex. The company plans to spend several years on its construction. How much money it will take is not disclosed.
News August 22, 2022

The remaster of Spider-Man has become Sony’s fastest-selling PC port in the UK.

Sales of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered in the debut week were 26% higher than the PC version of God of War at the time, writes GamesIndustry.biz with a link to GSD data.
News August 22, 2022

Boom Beach: Frontlines collected over 1.3 million downloads in 10 days of the second wave of softlonch

In early August, Space Ape Games studio launched Boom Beach: Frontlines in 19 more countries. It is not reported how the downloads were distributed by countries and stores.
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