Indie artist and developer George Zarkua wrote a big thread on his Twitter page about the structure of the hyper-casual games market. He spoke about the history and development of the genre, relations with publishers, filling the market with money and the trend towards wholesale borrowing of other people’s ideas. We share material based on motives.

Recently it became known about the relaunch of the controversial shooter about the Iraq war Six Days in Fallujah. Two days ago, the creators of the game, in an interview with Polygon, said that their project would not become a political statement. The interview caused a strong reaction on Twitter. They also talked about whether the games should even touch on political topics.

Wanted: game analyst at MYTONA, motion designer at Playrix and product manager at VK Games.

Supercell remains a profitable company, but its EBITDA fell by 21% last year. Ilkka Paananen, CEO of the company, acknowledged the problem of supporting games as services, spoke about the results of the launch of Brawl Stars in China and possible corporate changes.Paananen’s comments appeared in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.

At the end of January, the American game developer Tilting Point announced the launch of a Russian division. We talked about the new studio and the challenges it faces with the president of the company, Samir El-Agili.

Unity is confident that their “real competitor” is not Epic Games at all. Those companies that still independently make engines for their projects deserve much more attention.

Creative Mobile, which specializes in mobile games, based in Estonia, has its first successes on VR on Steam. In 6 months, her game Into The Radius earned $ 500 thousand. The developers have plans to bring this amount to a million dollars already in 2021.

The success of free-to-play cross-platform games did not go unnoticed by Warner Bros., which had previously experimented with shareware monetization mainly in mobile. Now the company is preparing its response to Fortnite and Genshin Imact.

The Japanese corporation Nintendo is suing the developer of the mobile White Cat Project. The main claim of the company is that Colopl violated five patents at once in the game. For this, Nintendo wants to recover $47 million.

The number of games on Steam has reached the mark of 50 thousand. This number does not include add—ons, soundtracks, videos, programs and other products – there are about 39 thousand more in the store.

Developing a remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time could have been transferred to another team. This was announced in his video by YouTuber Blakwoodz.

Valheim can compete for the title of Steam‘s biggest viral hit. The Viking survival simulator has already sold over two million copies. His peak online has completely exceeded 392.8 thousand people — this is more than Rust, GTA V and PUBG had yesterday.

Roblox continues to increase its influence in the USA. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the company managed to increase its revenue share in the mobile market to almost 5%, now second only to King and Playrix in this indicator.GameRefinery told about the changes in the positions of mobile publishers in the American market in its report for the fourth quarter of 2020.

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.