Portal dev.by compared how much IT companies founded by Belarusians or which have an office in Belarus earn in Lithuania. The unequivocal leader was Melsoft, the owner of mobile games Family Island and MyCafe.

A new tool has appeared on the Xsolla platform. It will allow developers to “quickly and safely” integrate NFT into the gaming economy.

Despite the fact that the previous parts of Beholder were developed by Warm Lamp Games, the publisher Alawar attracted the German indie studio Paintbucket Games to create the third one. Co-founder of the company Jörg Friedrich (Jörg Friedrich) in the framework of Talents in Games Conference 2022 spoke about the features and problems of working on Beholder 3.

About 3 thousand applications can be removed from the App Store by next month, according to analysts from Sensor Tower. Old applications that have not been updated for several years will come under attack. To avoid their removal, developers will have to release updates within 30 days.

Barclays Bank shared statistics of transactions related to games. So, in 2021, the expenses of Britons aged 25 to 60 increased by 50-59%, and the size of the average in-game transaction was £15.

We are publishing a new pool of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: ASO-manager at Matryoshka Games, a game designer at Airion Games and a recruiter with knowledge of English at WN Media Group.

In the first quarter of 2022, the Chinese gaming industry earned more than $12 billion. The market continues to grow, and mobile games account for the bulk of revenue.

GEM Capital investment company announced new investments in Eastern Europe. She carried out a pre-sowing round to the Cyprus Skich, part of whose team works from Poland.

The mobile application growth platform Appodeal has announced a set of gaming products in the eponymous business accelerator. With the editors App2Top.ru the company shared what projects it is primarily interested in today.

Activision Blizzard reported on the first quarter of 2022 (ended March 31). Compared to last year, this time the company’s results were much more modest. In the period from January to March, her earnings amounted to $1.77 billion.

How much the earnings of top mobile games in Russia have decreased and how significantly the volumes of the domestic mobile entertainment market have fallen since the end of February — I was looking at the AppMagic database App2Top.ru .

On Friday, Bloomberg and Kotaku publications announced the interest of investment funds in the acquisition of Ubisoft. After that, the company’s shares began to grow.

Last week, Steam Deck and Elden Ring became the leaders in the Steam bestseller chart again. But the third place unexpectedly went to Cyberpunk 2077. A 50% discount helped him return to the top ten best-selling games.

How to work with new players in blockchain games using the example of a sales funnel, – said Sergey Labutin, leader of the NFT direction CM Games (formerly Creative Mobile).

Indie developers have a chance to have a hand in the famous vampire franchise. Paradox Interactive has launched an initiative to develop new games for the Unbound side project on the universe of the World of Darkness (World of Darkness).

The law firm Prospectacy has prepared a large-scale material on the taxation of foreign income in Russia. It touches on the topics of controlled foreign companies, how to calculate profits on them and pay tax (as well as what changed in these rules in March).

Developers from Russia were given back the opportunity to receive payments from Steam. Yesterday, the administration of the platform sent a system message with instructions for the updated payment system.

ResearchAndMarkets.com posted a report on the development of the African gaming market after the pandemic. According to the study, in the period from 2021 to 2026, it will grow by 12% annually.

In January 2022, David Edery posted on Twitter a post reaction to the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. His position attracted the attention of Simon Carless, and then prompted further discussion about the future of the industry.