Apple traditionally does not consider applications in the App Store Connect during the holidays. However, this year the company decided to make an exception — it will be possible to submit an update request for its application even at Christmas. Developers are still advised to hurry up.Apple told about this on November 8, publishing a small blog post for developers.

Voodoo continues to strengthen its position in the casual market. She announced investments in the Israeli studio Teskin Games, which develops match-3 titles and puzzles. The amount of investments was not disclosed, but they were “significant”.

Niantic presented its vision of a “real-time metaverse”. For these purposes, the company has released Lightship, an almost completely free set of tools for creating AR games and applications. The company also launched its own $20 million developer fund.

Roblox shared the financial results of the third quarter of 2021 (ended September 30). During this period, the company managed to double its revenue to a record $509.3 million. But at the same time, her losses also increased.

Free Fire continues to set records. The analytical company App Annie estimated that in January-June, the total mobile downloads of Free Fire amounted to 104.5 million. This is the best result among mobile battle royales.

The year 2021 has already become the largest in the history of the Nintendo Switch in terms of the number of new releases. Over the past two months, almost 200 fresh games have appeared on the platform on average.Statistics on new releases for Nintendo Switch were shared by Thomas Bidaux, founder of Ico Partners.

Last week, Devolver Digital officially became a public company. As a result of going public, the publisher raised $261 million at a valuation of $950 million. The company also announced the acquisition of three studios, including the authors of the Stronghold series.The publisher himself will get $50 million.

Last week, Playtika reported for the third quarter (ended September 30). As a result, the company’s shares fell by 25%. This is due to the fact that some financial indicators were lower than previous forecasts. Partly to blame for everything may be the changes that have occurred in the mobile advertising market after the release of iOS 14.5.Switchcraft

What can be wrong with working with Annapurna, what pitfalls are there when communicating with Versus Evil and why not all developers should cooperate with Raw Fury and Daedalic,” he said in an interview App2Top.ru Sasha Goodwin, developer of the anticipated indie blockbuster Selfloss.

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment shared a financial report for the third quarter of 2021. The company lost a little in revenue, but at the same time increased its profit. We managed to achieve growth thanks to the success of our own games and recent releases, as well as a reduction in the commission in the Microsoft Store.

South Korea has become the first country for which Google has specifically changed the rules of its app store. Now developers will be able to freely use third-party payment systems, while giving the company 4% less. This is necessary to comply with the so-called “Law against Google“.Google announced this last week in its blog.

Age of Empires IV has lost its lead in the Steam bestseller chart — last week the game dropped to the second line of the rating. Instead, the best-selling title was Forza Horizon 5, which is scheduled for release on November 9.

Why you should pay less attention to CTR and it’s time to move on to testing CPI on alternative platforms, — they told App2Top.ru representatives of Espresso Publishing and Tenjin.

The Chinese analytical platform SocialPeta has published a basic report on the specifics of Asian markets. We publish a squeeze.

Testers often do not receive proper recognition in the gaming industry. Jocelyn Baxter, the screenwriter of Eidos Montreal, decided to fix the situation. She said that most of the Guardians of the Galaxy storyline was written by those who had previously been involved in testing.

The publisher of Fall Guys and Loop Hero, the American Devolver Digital, is going to enter the Alternative Investment Market (also known as AIM, which operates at the London Stock Exchange) this Thursday. The expected public valuation of the company will be almost £700 million (or $956 million).

Niantic has decided to no longer support the augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The project will be removed from mobile stores on December 6, and the servers will be turned off on January 31, 2022.

Omni Creator Products (OCP) is a startup founded by two people from Epic Game s. The company raised $4.3 million to create its first product. It will be a platform for creating UGC games.OCP was founded by brothers Nick and Mike Atamas, who previously worked on Unreal Engine.

Microsoft has announced metaverse, a project based on its mixed reality Mesh platform. It is designed to work together in a virtual space and will be integrated into Teams. In the future, the company plans to add its own games to the metaverse.The Mesh for Teams project was presented at the Ignite conference, which took place on November 2.