Sensor Tower analysts have prepared a report on the most profitable mobile games of last month. PUBG Mobile became the February leader at the box office, which together with its Chinese version of Game For Peace earned $ 250 million. Also in the top of the best was the project of the Russian Playrix.

The Russian bagel Loop Hero has performed well in sales. The game has sold over 500 thousand copies sold in just a week since its release.

Not only the Russian authorities can tighten the screws. Already this June, Google is introducing a “tax on bloggers.” We are talking about rules that will oblige all owners of YouTube channels to make deductions in favor of the United States from the income received from American users. This will also affect Russians.

Roblox shares appeared on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The company entered the market not through an IPO, but by choosing an alternative in the form of a direct listing. Against this background, its valuation has grown to an astronomical $45.2 billion — this is significantly more than that of Electronic Arts ($37.43 billion) and Unity ($27.76 billion).

In recent weeks, the network has been actively discussing non-interchangeable tokens (NFT). They are tied to paintings, 3D models and even memes, earning millions of dollars. Journalist Jason Schreier tried to understand the phenomenon and told what representatives of the gaming industry think about NFT. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

What to do if you need to protect yourself from copying the name of the game and cloning it, — says in his column for App2Top.ru Nika Vartanova, lawyer at VERSUS.legal.

The deal between Microsoft and ZeniMax Media officially ended yesterday. On this occasion, Phil Spencer finally directly answered the question that has been worrying since September: what will happen to the games of the acquired company? He did not open all the cards, but confirmed that at least some of the new games from Bethesda will indeed be released exclusively for PC and Xbox.

A publisher with Latvian roots tinyBuild, known for the Hello Neighbor franchise, has entered the stock market. During the IPO, the company raised £154 million ($213.7 million), and its market value rose to £340.58 million ($472.6 million).

Wanted: creative director-screenwriter at Playrix, producer at Green Pixel and game designer at Deus Craft.

Developer and publisher KamaGames has reported financial results for 2020. The company’s revenue grew by almost 40%, and in terms of profit, last year was a record at all.

Germany is seriously concerned about the problem of loot boxes and their impact on minors. Now the authorities are preparing a special reform that may prohibit the sale of games with similar mechanics to minors.

Loop Hero is a bagel with indirect control from the Russian indie studio Four Quarters and publisher Devolver Digital. In just a day after the release, more than 150 thousand people played the game, and its peak online was almost 40 thousand.

Microsoft is closer than ever to completing the purchase of ZeniMax. Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officially approved a deal worth $7.5 billion. Now the decision has to be made by the European Commission.

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Piotr Karbowski, CEO of CreativeForge Games (part of PlayWay).Peter Karbowski

Former developers of League of Legends, Halo, Overwatch and Dota 2 have founded a studio that will create multiplatform PvP titles. They have already raised $37.5 million, including from the Chinese giant NetEase.

Even five months after the release of Genshin Impact remains one of the highest-grossing mobile games in the world. According to analysts, during this time she collected $ 874 million only in the App Store and Google Play.