The era is gone. FarmVille will stop working on Facebook at the end of this year. The reason is the unwillingness to translate the project to HTML5 after the decision of the social network to stop supporting Flash games at home.Recall that the official reason why Facebook “closes the valve” to Flash games is the termination of Adobe Flash Player support in all browsers.

Sony has increased prices for the Russian PS Store. Basic versions of some games have gone up to 6 thousand rubles, and versions with additional content — up to 9 thousand rubles. The change is due to “current market conditions”.

EA has once again faced criticism of its microtransaction policy. An advertisement for FIFA 21 loot boxes appeared in the magazine of a children’s toy store, which directly talked about the need to open packs with football players.Attention to the problem was drawn by one of the Twitter users who published a photo of a page from the magazine of the British chain of toy stores Smyths Toys.

Krafton has announced a merger with its subsidiary studio, PUBG Corp. After the merger, the development team of the latter will continue to work independently, but the publishing and technical support units will come under the direct control of Krafton.

The App Store policy has repeatedly attracted criticism from developers, but now the wave of discontent has reached a new level.Thirteen companies, including Spotify, Epic Games and Match Group have joined a coalition against Apple. The organization’s goal is to “protect freedom of choice and fair competition in the application ecosystem.”

Leslie Benzies, who previously served as president of Rockstar North, has attracted investments of $42 million to develop a new game Everywhere. One of the investors was the Chinese giant NetEase.The funds will be received by the Benzis studio Build a Rocket Boy.

On September 23, the Rocket League football race switched to a frituplein distribution model. Just a day later, online reached a record for the project of 1 million players.The achievement was announced by Corey Davis, one of the heads of the Psyonix studio.

Amazon has found a way to circumvent the rules and the App Store commission. The company has released the Luna cloud gaming service in the form of PWA, a progressive web application. This means that the service will not appear in the store at all — a browser is enough for it to work.

Information that Amazon is preparing its own service for “playing in the cloud” appeared back in 2019. Now it has come to the announcement. At an event dedicated to hardware, Amazon announced the launch of the Luna service.

In the first half of 2020, German residents spent €3.7 billion on games, which is 27% more than a year earlier for the same period. One of the main reasons is self—isolation during a pandemic. The largest increase occurred in the category of in-game purchases.This is described in the report, which was prepared by the German Gaming Industry Association (Game) based on data from App Annie and GfK, as well as surveys of Germans aged…

Starting this Thursday, we are launching a new format — live interviews on current topics. Our first — today’s — issue is dedicated to the legal news of game dev. Together with Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov& Pevzner Law Firm, we analyzed two cases: a trial between Supercell and GREE, as well as a trial between Voodoo and Rollic Games.

The Riftbreaker game from a small Polish studio EXOR was added to the wishlist on Steam almost 250 thousand times before the release. The co-founder of the company, Pawel Lekki, told Gamasutra about how they managed to achieve such impressive indicators.

Control became one of the success factors of the publisher Digital Bros in the last fiscal year (ended June 30). The Remedy game has generated revenue of $40 million since its release.A major Italian publisher Digital Bros has published a report for the 2019-2020 financial year:

The genre of mobile RPG is the seventh largest at the box office in American stores. In the eight months of 2020, gamers’ spending on it increased by 33% and reached the $2 billion mark. This is the conclusion reached by Sensor Tower analysts in a new report.

The creators of the free-play royal battle Spellbreak, in which players control combat magicians, reported on the first successes. In just 20 days from the release date, the number of players reached 5 million.Proletariat studio also shared other Spellbreak game statistics on Twitter:

A week after the announcement of the sequel Among Us, the developers from Innersloth canceled the sequel. The main reason is the huge popularity of the original game recently.Initially, work on Among Us 2 began due to problems with the original code, which was not intended for large-scale updates.

SuperData summed up the results of last month in a new review of the digital gaming market. Among other things, analysts talked about the success of the PC versions of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Last week, the award for gaming HR specialists “Game Dev HR Awards” was held. At it, the participants of the event — various gaming companies — told and defended the HR projects that they had implemented.

Wanted: QA-lead at Belka Games, C# programmer at Targem Games and technical designer at Playrix.On the basis of the job search service and the Talents In Games recruiting agency, product manager Marina Lopatina has prepared a selection of the most interesting vacancies for the week.