Omdia analysts have published a forecast about the possible consequences of Apple‘s IDFA policy. They assumed that this year the advertising market in iOS applications will fall by 17% at once.

Cloud provider G-Core Labs earlier this month held a competition for the best indie game with an online component. It ran until February 10. The winners have recently become known.

Polish studio One More Level, responsible for the development of Ghostrunner, has been unable to receive money from sales of its game for several months. Due to the difficulties that arose, the company did not publish a financial report, and its shares fell in price.The problem of One More Level was reported today by the Polish edition of Bankier.

We continue the mini-series of interviews within the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the game market. This time we talked with Anton Ravin, 1C Publishing‘s Director of Business Development and Publishing.

Josef Fares, who was at the helm of the action adventure A Way Out, is not sure about the future of subscription services like Xbox Game Pass. According to the game designer, their main problem is an opaque system of payments to developers.

Yesterday, the online survival simulator Valheim exceeded 360 thousand people. The project not only continues to hold the lead in the Steam chart, but has already entered the top ten most popular games by the number of simultaneous users in the history of the store.Valheim, developed by Iron Gate Studio, continues to gain popularity.

Supertreat Studio, known for the game Solitaire Grand Harvest, will now officially support WWF. The companies plan to hold in-game events and other initiatives aimed at helping wildlife.Supertreat will cooperate with the World Wildlife Fund throughout 2021, the publication reports PocketGamer.biz .

Recently, rumors appeared on the web that Microsoft is going to buy Techland. However, now the community manager of the Polish studio has stated that this is not true. According to him, the developers of Dying Light 2 do not intend to make a deal with Microsoft or anyone else.

In January, spending on video games in the United States amounted to $4.71 billion, according to the analytical company NPD Group. As for individual games, Cyberpunk 2077 dropped 16 positions in the chart at once, but the last Call of Duty managed to enter the top 20 best-selling titles in history.General data

How the mobile advertising market has changed in the gaming segment, — SocialPeta and Nativex told in a large-scale report. We briefly share the key points of the study.

Zynga games will appear on consoles and PCs. During a conversation with investors, the company announced that it was interested in cross—platform projects. The publisher has already started development and intends to release the first titles by the end of 2021.

Remedy has published a financial report for 2020. During this time, Control’s sales exceeded the mark of 2 million copies, and revenue exceeded €40 million. The company also shared its development strategy for the next five years.Key indicators for the year

British Pole To Win, specializing in outsourcing for gaming and technology companies, has acquired 5518 Studio, based in Russia. The latter made art for a lot of high-profile titles. Among them are Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Fortnite.

In 2009, Konami canceled the Six Days in Fallujah military shooter about the Iraq War after a barrage of criticism. 11 years later, the development of the game unexpectedly resumed, but with the help of a new studio and publisher. The team is led by former Bungie employees who worked on Halo and Destiny.

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment reported for the fourth quarter of 2020 (October-December). It turned out to be successful in many respects. The publisher’s own revenues during this time exceeded the mark of 335.3 million Swedish kronor ($ 40.2 million), and the revenue of individual games increased by an impressive 250%.

Todd Kuhns, marketing manager at AppInChina, told about what a game publisher might face when coming to China in his report for WN Winter’21.  We offer a short version of his speech.

The developer of the Unreal Engine has presented a tool that allows you to make a realistic digital model of a person in a few minutes — MetaHuman Creator. The technology is not yet without the effect of the “sinister valley”, but it is free. We chose the main thing about the Epic Games project and gathered the opinion of the gaming community.

Today was the release of Little Nightmares 2, a continuation of the platformer of the same name with elements of horror. The profile press praises the game for the atmosphere and outstanding sound, while noticing a number of shortcomings. Now the average score of Little Nightmares 2 on Metacritic is 82/100.About the game

devtodev now has full support for SQL queries right in the service interface. It replaced SQL Wizard, which was limited to a custom set of functions.The main advantage of implementing full SQL support is the use of virtually any data that the devtodev platform has collected about events in the game.