In September, Americans spent $4.4 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to NPD Group analysts. They also write that the PS5 has overtaken the Nintendo Switch in the number of boxes sold, and Madden NFL 22 is in first place in the ranking of the best-selling games.

Wanted: backend developer at Black Snowflake, lead game designer at Dankolab and product manager at Hypercell Games.

In February, the Belarusian studio Flime together with Gismart released a hyper-casual arcade Pencil Rush 3D. In the seven months since its release, the game has been downloaded 40 million times. The developers have prepared for App2Top.ru a column in which they told about the progress of the creation of the game.

Sony Pictures Entertainment sold GSN Games, the developers of the slots, two years after the purchase. Scopely became the new owner of the studio. The deal cost the mobile publisher “almost a billion dollars.”

On September 17, the South Korean TV series “The Squid Game” was released on Netflix. Mobile developers decided to take advantage of its success. The AppMagic analytical service found out which projects based on this show have collected the largest number of downloads over the past two weeks.

Studio Kixeye has accused its owner Stillfront Group of non-payment of $ 30 million of the required remuneration. According to the materials of the lawsuit, Stillfront deliberately understated the financial results of Kixeye in order to evade the mandatory payment.

Last week, the best-selling game on Steam was Back 4 Blood. Different editions of the zombie shooter from Turtle Rock Studios got four lines in the rating at once, including the first. But Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 have disappeared from dozens of bestsellers.

Traditionally, an exhibition of developers takes place within the framework of each WN Conference. This was also the case at the autumn session that just took place. We tell you about what interesting projects could be found in the exhibition part of the conference in the material.

It seems that Valve is set against blockchain games. According to the updated Steam rules, titles with NFT will not be allowed in the store. This also applies to projects already placed on the site.Age of Rust

NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella shared his forecasts for the American video game industry for the fourth quarter of 2021. He expects that the problems with the supply of consoles will continue, the costs of gamers will increase, and Call of Duty: Vanguard will become a bestseller.

Another free course for developers has appeared on the devtodev analytical platform. This time it is dedicated to the basic basics of level design. The curator of the course is Oleg Grachev, a leading level designer at Pixonic.

South Korean authorities are unhappy with Apple. Last month, they ordered her and Google to relax payment rules in app stores. Google agreed to make concessions, but Apple did not change anything. Now Korean officials are preparing to investigate Tim Cook‘s company.

Blender uses a special fund to develop and support its tools. Now Apple is among the main sponsors. The company’s funds will be used to develop the key components of Blender and add new functions to it.The fact that Apple will transfer funds to the Blender Development Fund on a monthly basis was announced by the developers of the toolkit on October 14.

Murka Games, founded by immigrants from Ukraine, has agreed to purchase a new studio. It will be joined by the American Mobile Deluxe, which specializes in mobile solitaire and social casinos. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Israeli company ironSource is expanding. This time, she signed an agreement to acquire the advertising and monetization platform Tapjoy. The transaction amount will be $400 million.ironSource will finance the purchase with cash from its balance sheet.

Apple has released a big report on the dangers of third-party stores and how they will affect the ecosystem of mobile devices. The company hopes to influence the decision on the monopoly case and the payment rules of the App Store.

Three representatives of the TikTok advertising platform spoke at the WN Conference today: Andrey Hristyuk, Ignatiy Bodrikov and Konstantin Inin. They shared tips on creating creatives for their platform and showed a couple of cases with games.

Dmitry Osipov, the leading project manager of Pixonic, was among the participants of the WN Conference today. He spoke about the creation of the War Robots remaster and its impact on the title metrics.

Captain Studio.tv raised $10 million through a fundraising campaign. The team will create new games for streaming platforms and launch the Captain Hub PC application.