More contests for game developers! Cloud provider G-Core Labs has announced its own competition. It is focused exclusively on indie games with an online component.

Despite the release of a major off-season update, online Fall Guys continues to fall. Now it has dropped below 12 thousand simultaneous players, which is several times less than the peak values.The peak online Fall Guys for 24 hours was 11681 people, according to SteamDB.

Yesterday, Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: Warhammer III. Despite the fact that the release of the game is scheduled for the end of the year, it almost immediately became the leader of sales on Steam.

Match-3 game Project Makeover from the creators of Matchington Mansion continues to gain cash. In January, its American revenue exceeded $20 million, beating several titles of Playrix and King.The analytical company AppMagic drew attention to this.

American screenwriter Clayton Haugen sued Activision Blizzard. He stated that the company stole the appearance of his character for the image of Mara, a girl soldier from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

AppLovin marketing platform is on the way to another big deal. The company has agreed to acquire the Berlin-based Adjust, specializing in mobile analytics, for $1 billion.

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 Roman Zhikharev, QA Director at G-Core Labs.

Despite the loss of exclusive rights to release Star Wars games, EA does not intend to abandon the profitable direction. In a conversation with investors, the company stated that its total earnings on franchise titles exceeded $ 3 billion.This was told by the CEO of Electronic Arts Andrew Wilson (Andrew Wilson).

Electronic Arts has submitted a report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 (ended December 31). The company talked about the success of its key titles and increased revenue to $1.6 billion. However, its net profit fell by 39%.Key data

Newzoo analysts have found out that Saudi Arabia is very fond of video games. More than three-quarters of the country’s online population consider themselves gamers. At the same time, the lion’s share of players chooses mobile.

Sony has shared the results of the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). During the reporting period, the revenue of the company’s gaming division exceeded $8 billion, and PlayStation 5 sales amounted to 4.5 million copies.Key data

The Swedish Embracer Group holding continues to grow actively. Today, the company announced three major acquisitions at once. Below is the main thing about transactions.

Released three years ago, Beat Saber can still compete for the title of one of the most popular rhythm games for virtual reality. Studio Beat Games reported the sale of over 4 million copies of the title and 40 million songs from the DLC.

Privacy tokens do not guarantee the security of personal data of iOS users. The media found out that Apple does not always verify the authenticity of app labeling. A number of developers have already taken advantage of this loophole.

Social casino developer Playstudios has decided to enter the stock market by merging with SPAC. Thanks to the upcoming deal, the company’s valuation will exceed $1 billion.This was reported by Bloomberg last week, and now the information has been confirmed by Playstudios itself.

Apple has updated the guidelines for publishing apps in the App Store. Among other things, the changes affected subscription services, donations for developers and application descriptions.

App Annie has published the top 52 highest-grossing mobile publishers in the world according to the results of the previous year. Playrix is in 3rd place, Mail.Ru Group on the 51st.

The analytical company SuperData has published a report on sales of VR devices for the fourth quarter of 2020. Oculus Quest 2 is leading by a large margin, which was bought by over 1 million people.Oculus Quest 2, which went on sale in October last year, sold 1 million copies in three months.

This month Blizzard will host the BlizzCon Festival, which will be held online for the first time. The company revealed details of the free event and promised to show several “epic announcements”.