Financial results for the 4th quarter and for the entire last year of Nexters have been published. The central figure is $562 million. It was to this level that the company’s cash receipts rose from January to December 2021.

Anton Kravets, Art director of Nexters Boost, spoke at the Talents In Games Conference about how to treat game development, why graphics are secondary to gameplay and what a developer who devotes too much time to art from the very beginning of development may face.

The domestic gaming major MY.GAMES has released a report on the state of the Russian video game market for the past year. According to his estimate, the market volume reached 177.4 billion rubles (or $2.4 billion, based on the average annual dollar exchange rate of 73.6 rubles).

A new pool of vacancies in the gaming industry. This week they are wanted: a leading marketer at Game Insight, a VFX artist at Vector Games (SberGames) and a game designer at Deus Craft.

Released last Friday, GhostWire: Tokyo, although it did not become a sales leader on Steam, was able to grab two places in the fresh chart at once — fourth and eighth. As for the first three games, it remained unchanged. It’s still Elden Ring, Steam Deck and It Takes Two.GhostWire: Tokyo

The transition of CD Projekt RED to Unreal Engine 5 aroused the interest and surprise of the gaming community. We have prepared information about other studios that have also opted for UE.

Mobile racing arcade game Race Master 3D is a new hyper-casual hit of Czech Beresnev Games. The studio reported that the game has overcome the threshold of 100 million downloads since its release in August last year.

As part of the GDC conference, Rami Ismail made a presentation in which he criticized indie developers, and at the same time gave them some advice on money and working with publishers.

Due to the situation in Eastern Europe after February 24, many game dev specialists left their home countries or started thinking about relocation. In this regard App2Top.ru and Talents In Games is conducting a survey. His goal is to find out how significant the outcome is, and whether it will continue in the near future.

Unity will release a free game on Steam. It’s called Gigaya. It is designed to help developers understand the engine, and companies understand how to simplify the life of game teams.

A fresh selection of vacancies in the gaming industry. Wanted this week: ASO-specialist at RoasUp, lead level designer at Dankolab and game designer at Airion Games.

After the sanctions measures, the Russian traffic of digital gaming platforms — primarily Steam and Epic Games Store — has significantly decreased. At the same time, the attendance of domestic services and torrent trackers has increased.

The Swedish company G5 Entertainment, which has offices in Russia and Ukraine, reported how it is changing its processes in connection with the so-called special operation. Among the measures taken: opening offices in four new countries for it and stopping the distribution of games in Russia.

The Ministry of Finance plans to create a Russian equivalent of the App Store and Google Play. The decision was made at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy.

Games with merge core mechanics from Chinese teams are increasingly getting into the top sales. Their box office successes are noticeable not only in their home market, but also in the USA.

Unity is preparing for the release of Gaming Services. The new set of tools is focused on creating and supporting cross-platform multiplayer games created on the engine.

Instagram Facebook Today, March 21, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognized the activities of the Meta Platform company as extremist and banned the operation of its Facebook and Instagram services in Russia. We asked a representative of the Semenov & Pevzner law firm to briefly explain what this means.

GDC cancels tickets of participants from Russia. The first information about this leaked into the public field on the morning of March 21. By the evening, we received an official confirmation of the information from the GDC.

Game studio NewPubCo shared with App2Top.ru a story about how the change in advertising monetization affected the long-term revenue figures of their game.