We are launching our annual series of materials “Results of the Year“. In it, we interview top managers and experts of the gaming industry about how the year has passed for their company. The series opens with our interview with Vasily Sabirov, head of analytics at Easybrain.

This year, during the period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday (November 27-30), the digital gaming market earned $3.9 billion. This is almost half a billion less than it was in 2019.

This summer, Apple began removing games from the Chinese App Store that did not have permission to be published in this country. But it seems that by the end of the year the company will remove a number of applications from the store.

How Zynga looks at game design, — the leading designers of FarmVille 2: Country Escape, Poornima Seetharaman and Vimal Sathish, told at the online Talents in Games Conference.

The analytical company GameRefinery has published a report on the main news and changes that have occurred in major mobile projects in October. The data relate to the markets of the USA, China and Japan.US Market

Apple has posted lists of the best App Store apps for 2020. The game of the year on the iPhone was Genshin Impact. In other game categories, Dandara was noted, among others: Trials of Fear, Legends of Runeterra and Pokémon GO.

Yesterday it became known about a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. According to him, the Ministry of Health proposes to allow the examination of computer games for the threat to the mental health of children. We asked Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm, to comment on this initiative.

Travis Scott’s concert in the Fortnite game not only broke attendance records, but also brought the rapper $ 20 million. This is several times more than the income from his most successful live performance.Forbes reports that the amount earned by Scott includes not only the fee for the virtual event, but also the proceeds from the sale of merchandise.

Two months after the launch, Genshin Impact still holds the title of the best-selling mobile game in the world, not counting Honor of Kings. During this time, she collected $393 million only in the App Store and Google Play.

Swedish Enad Global 7 makes another major purchase. The company announced the takeover of Daybreak Games, the studio behind the creation of EverQuest, H1Z1 and PlanetSide. The transaction amount is $300 million.

The top genres in terms of revenue in the niche of erotic games are the same as on mobile: role—playing games with gacha, as well as three-in-a-row. Grigory Sokolov, senior designer at Nutaku Publishing, told about this at the online Talents in Games Conference.

The analytical company NPD Group found out how 2020 affected the gaming habits of Americans. Among the topics covered in the report are demographic trends, the most popular platforms and features of gamers’ spending during the pandemic.

Wanted: motion designer at ZiMAD, Unity developer at Murka Games, game designer at PlayMe8 and technical artist for the development of the Russian AAA game.

Odnoklassniki reported record daily revenue. During Black Friday, users of the social network spent over 47 million rubles in games.Results of the promotion

On December 3, Immortals Fenyx Rising will be released, a new Ubisoft project that has often been compared to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In fact, the games did not have as much in common as it might seem at first glance. The media praise the plot and the Immortals combat system, but criticize the project for puzzles and secondary.

This summer, the Moscow studio Crazy Panda held a large-scale event for employees. It took place in an online format. How it was, — the event manager of the company Olga Agafonova told.

Omdia analysts talked about the future of the virtual reality market. By 2025, spending on VR content alone will exceed $4 billion. But really mass VR will not become until the 2030s.

While multiplayer GTA V and Call of Duty: Black Ops III are leading in the top sales for PS4, Sony itself says — in fact, players like single-player games much more. That’s just that users have almost no time for them. The company offers developers to disclose information about the length of quests and allow gamers to run tasks in a convenient sequence.

Polish studio Anshar Studios is working on an isometric role-playing game Gamedec, based on the cyberpunk book series of the same name. The project, in which the player will investigate crimes in virtual worlds, has already attracted $ 170 thousand on Kickstarter.