In the near future, the Chinese regulator will again issue licenses to online games. He hasn’t done it in four months. Against the background of such news, the shares of local giants Tencent and NetEase increased in price.

The publisher of Hero Wars summed up the quarterly results. In July-September, its revenue amounted to $115 million. This is a record figure for Nexters. Previously, the company did not earn so much in three months.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published a big investigation about the situation inside Activision Blizzard. It is alleged that Bobby Kotick hid information about harassment for years and once threatened to kill one of the employees himself. The board of directors sided with him, but the company’s shares fell to the lowest in more than a year.

Embracer Group has published a report for the second fiscal quarter of 2021 (ended September 30). During this period, the Swedish holding managed to almost double the revenue from gaming sales and significantly increase profits. The company also shared plans for new M&A deals.

The French studio Million Victories, which developed the mobile strategy of Million Lords, closed the Series A funding round. The company received an amount of $ 3 million. The round was led by the Griffin Gaming Partners venture fund.

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NetEase’s gaming revenue for the third quarter (ended September 30) was $2.5 billion. This is a record figure for a Chinese company. Not the least role in this was played by the successful launches of Naraka: Bladepoint and Harry Potter: Magic Awakened.Naraka: Bladepoint

Epic Games has made a new accusation against Google. She said that in 2018, the corporation was seriously concerned about the developer’s plans to release Fortnite on Android bypassing Google Play. So much so that she created a working group that was supposed to prevent this.

A few days ago, a number of mobile publishers accused Apple of secretly buying Google ads for selected applications. The company allegedly does this to increase its revenue from subscriptions. Apple claims that all such campaigns were coordinated with the developers and do not violate the rules of the App Store.What happened?

Yesterday, Microsoft, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Xbox and the Halo franchise, opened access to the free-play beta of the Halo Infinite multiplayer — three weeks earlier than planned. In the first hours after the release of the game, its online on Steam exceeded 270 thousand people.

The Chinese giant Tencent decided to support developers from Russia. The holding invested in Beryoski, a new studio that was opened by the authors of the tactical RTS “Partisans 1941”. The size and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The sphere of blockchain games continues to attract investors. Forte startup immediately invested $ 725 million, which the company will spend on the development of its own platform. With its help, developers will be able to integrate blockchain technologies and related services into their video games.Image: Forte

India is the world leader in mobile game downloads. The analytical company App Annie estimated that in the first half of 2021, the inhabitants of this country were responsible for every fifth download of games on Google Play and the App Store.

The release of a trilogy of remasters of classic GTA turned into a failure. User ratings on Metacritic dropped to 0.5/10 — one of the worst results in history. Players complain massively about bugs, the depressing technical condition of the project and demand a refund. At the same time, remasters were unavailable for launch for three days.

The company miHoYo continues to expand. Genshin Impact developers have announced the launch of an office in Montreal. This studio will be working on a “brand new” AAA adventure game in the open world.

Last week, Battlefield 2042 climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, beating Forza Horizon 5. Thanks to various publications, the multiplayer shooter from DICE took three lines at once, including the first. But New World for the first time in eight weeks failed to get into the top ten best-selling games.

Playtika was investigated by its own investors. They accused the company of violating the US Securities Act. The reason was the fall in the value of shares after the publisher reported for the third quarter.

For the second year in a row App2Top.ru and Talents In Games conducts a survey on the level of salaries in the Russian-speaking game dev and areas close to it. As a result, a large-scale study of the market situation will be published.

During the third quarter, Roblox earned $509.3 million and generally exceeded investors’ expectations. As a result, the company’s shares soared by 42.2%. Thanks to this, Roblox took the first place in capitalization among US gaming companies, overtaking the previous leader in the person of Activision Blizzard.Roblox’s quarterly revenue grew by 102% year-on-year.