On the eve of the Game Developers Conference 2022 (to be held from March 21 to 25), the organizers published an annual study on the state of the gaming industry. The survey was attended by 2,700 developers who spoke about their preferred platforms, game promotion, remote work and their attitude to NFT.

Apple is changing its work with promo codes for subscriptions in the App Store. Developers have the opportunity to compose codes themselves and use them for a large audience.

The meeting of Bobby Kotick with employees, the official position on the future of the Call of Duty series on PlayStation, the fear of mass layoffs and the chances of the revival of old franchises. We tell you the main thing about all the latest news related to the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal.

A little more than a month ago, Gismart projects overcame the milestone of a billion total downloads. A few days ago, a Belarusian-British publisher announced that in honor of this event, he released the first NFT collection.

Ilya Eremeev, co-founder of The Games Fund, shared the subtleties of working with investors. He told what they pay attention to during the pitch, and also gave some advice to developers on evaluating the market and choosing the right niche for their game.

Not much is known about the African video game market. The Games Industry Africa (GIA) portal decided to fix this and published an analysis of the situation in the region. It contains data on the turnover of markets in different countries, the number of players and a couple of key trends.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has released a report “Cryptocurrencies: Trends, risks, measures“. It proposes to prohibit both any operations with cryptocurrency and mining as such.

Analysts from Newzoo have compiled a portrait of gamers who play metaverse games. Such projects today include Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft. Their audience is much younger than users of “traditional” titles and actively uses games for socialization.Fortnite

Mobile games from Google Play Games have officially appeared on PC. Google has announced the launch of beta testing of the desktop version of its service. But there were some restrictions — while residents of only three countries can play Android titles on Windows.

The organizers of the indie developers Indie Cup competition have announced the beginning of the winter season 2022. The first stage — acceptance of works — will last until February 14.

Dmitry Yaminsky, co-founder of Azur Games, shares in his column the reasons for the emergence of the Pay Per Prototype model and explains why it no longer makes sense in the current conditions.

The first session of the WN Conference in 2022 will be held in Berlin. The dates are February 7-8. The event will be held both offline and online. His program has already been published.

The boom in investments in mobile studios continues in Turkey. Recently, a local startup Dream Games, known for match-3 Royal Match, received $255 million from investors. As a result, its market value reached $2.75 billion.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard for a record $68.7 billion for the gaming industry. As a result, Sony‘s shares collapsed, and information appeared in the media about the possible departure of Bobby Kotick. We tell you what else happened after the news about the deal.

There has been a big discussion on Reddit about programming languages that have been used to develop video games at various times. Users recalled games written in BASIC, the era of assembler and the transition to C++, and also shared stories from their own practice.Assembly language was used in the 80s and early 90s.

2021 was the best year for the US gaming market in terms of turnover. NPD Group analysts estimate that last year Americans spent $60.4 billion on video games, hardware and accessories — more than ever before. The best-selling game was Call of Duty: Vanguard.

The Odnoklassniki social network summed up the results of the year of its gaming platform. Total payments to game developers by the end of 2021 amounted to 3.2 billion ($ 43.4 million). A third of this amount — 1.2 billion rubles ($16.3 million) — fell on mobile projects.

Wanted: a leading UA manager at MYTONA, a senior game designer at tinyBuild and a data analyst at Neskin Games.

Spyke Games is a Turkish mobile studio that was opened two years ago by former top managers of Riot Games, Peak Games and Zynga. Yesterday, it held the largest seed round of financing in the history of the country’s gaming industry.