The Russian-based gaming company Playrix now earns a billion dollars a year on mobile. This is without taking into account the revenue from advertising, exclusively from in—game micropayments.

The release of Stadia turned out to be one of the most disastrous launches in the history of gaming platforms. This is what representatives of the analytical firm DFC Intelligence think.

On November 23, an event for game specialists Talents In Games was held in Minsk. Today, on November 27, the organizer — WN Media Group — shared its results.

Wanted: graphic designer at Beresnev Games, narrative designer at Playrix and advertising creative artist at Awem Games.

Prague independent studio Beat Games has come under the control of Facebook. The amount of the transaction is not called.

The expansion of Chinese publishers into the Western market continues. NetEase has become one of the major shareholders of Bossa Studios, the publisher of Surgeon Simulator. The deal could amount to $30 million.

Respawn Entertainment can open champagne. Electronic Arts (EA) said that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order showed one of the best sales starts among all the games based on “Star Wars“.

Since September, Electronic Arts (EA) has been testing its own cloud gaming platform. It is called Project Atlas and is not going to compete for an audience with similar solutions from Google and Microsoft.

Valve has started cleaning Steam. Over the past day, the company has removed 982 games from the store’s pages. The official reason is the abuse of Steamworks tools by developers.

CD Projekt management told investors that they are not afraid of competition from Half-Life: Alyx. It also expressed doubt about the possibility of building a good business on VR games.

The St. Petersburg space for novice developers “Indicator” is being liquidated. This was stated by its founder Sergey Gimelreich on his Facebook page.

Investors have started to look closely at cloud playgrounds. The German firm Ringier Digital Ventures, together with a group of investors, invested $ 3 million in AirConsole. The latter allows you to play multiplayer games without installation.

The mobile games market is becoming more transparent. The analytical company GameAnalytics has introduced a new service. It allows you to see what metrics the game should have in order for it to match the top products on the market.

Last Friday, November 22, the analytical company SuperData reported on the financial results of October. She said that over the past month, players spent $8.84 billion on games. We are talking about total spending on the console, desktop and mobile markets in digital retail.

The Valve Index headset is in great demand after the announcement of the new Half-Life. In the new chart of the best-selling Steam products, the VR helmet was on the second line.

Swedish startup Coherence invested $2.5 million. With these funds, he plans to create a cloud platform for online game development.

Google Stadia is clearly not the best platform for multiplayer games right now. MAU Destiny 2 has 9.9 thousand players on it.

Blizzard and NetEase won a plagiarism case by 4399 Network. The latter is a Chinese publisher who released MOBA Heroes of Warfare.

In the third quarter of 2019, users downloaded 11.1 billion gaming applications from the App Store and Google Play. Most of them came from 1% of publishers.