Marcin Iwiński, co-founder of CD Projekt RED, explained why the release of Cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be so problematic, and outlined the game’s development plan.

Wanted: art recruiter at MYTONA, junior level designer at Friday’s Games, technical artist at Deus Craft and backend programmer at WN Media Group.

The analytical company App Annie has presented a large report on the mobile market for 2020. It turned out that most of the revenue was provided by hardcore players. It also became known from the material which gameplay features were the most effective in terms of monetization.Comparison of different types of players

Switch is confidently moving towards becoming one of the best-selling Nintendo consoles. This time, it outperformed the portable 3DS in sales — just a few months after beating the NES.

Marcin Olejarz, co-founder and CEO of Boombit, spoke about the trends and problems of the hypercausal direction in his results.

Sony‘s ranks may soon be replenished by Bluepoint Games, a studio that recently released a remake of Demon’s Souls. According to rumors, the Japanese company is already negotiating a purchase. The network also suggests that upon completion of the deal, the developers will be engaged in remakes of Metal Gear Solid exclusively for PS5.

The authors of the Rec Room social VR platform, which allows you to communicate and create your own games, reported on the achievement of a MAU of 1 million people. Half of the users are owners of Oculus Quest 2 helmets.It is worth noting that we are talking only about players with VR devices.

Last year, the revenue of the European mobile games market grew by almost a third and amounted to $ 9.6 billion, according to Sensor Tower. At the same time, most of the revenue came from Google Play users.The big Sensor Tower report, published on January 8, is dedicated to the European mobile market as a whole, including games and applications.

The plot is a rare guest in construction simulators. This is a big omission of the developers, according to PCGamesN. In a recent article, the portal told how the narrative makes such games deeper and more attractive for gamers. We have chosen the main thing from the publication.

GameAnalytics company in its research told what indicators of retention, conversion and session length should be guided when creating match-3 games.Match-3 games remain one of the most popular genres in mobile gaming.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Leonid Yeletskikh, Sales Director at Adjust.

Sony announced that the launch of PlayStation 5 sales turned out to be the most successful — both in the history of the brand itself and the entire console industry.

The Polish Office for the Protection of Competition and Consumer Rights (UOKiK) will check the situation around the release of Cyberpunk 2077. As a result, CD Projekt may face a fine of 10% of annual revenue.UOKiK suspects CD Projekt of deceiving customers.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Sergey Zanin, co-founder and CEO of Alawar.

Lucasfilm has decided to put together Star Wars games and its other franchises under a single brand — Lucasfilm Games. That was the name of the company’s gaming division, founded by George Lucas almost 40 years ago.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Anatoly Dekhtyar, Head of Sales and Partnerships at ironSource Aura in Russia.

She talked about trends in the mobile gaming market and plans for the next yearValeria Alfimova, Chief Revenue Officer at Appodeal Stack.

Acquisitions continue to take place in the mobile market. One of the largest marketing companies — ironSource — became the owner of SOOMLA, an Israeli analytical startup.

Hyper Casual games remain one of the most actively developing areas of mobile gaming. Supersonic Studios specialists told us what you should pay attention to when creating and studying projects in this category this year.The original material was published on the pages of VentureBeat.