The organizers of the GTP Indie Cup Winter‘20 competition have opened the acceptance of applications from indie developers. The works are accepted until February 29.

The turnover of the Brazilian gaming market grew to $2.24 billion over the year. 40% of this amount is revenue from mobile games.

In the USA, the PlayStation 4 has become the most popular console of the last decade. She topped the sales tops both in pieces and in money.

In the past year, users’ spending on mobile games in Russia reached $744 million. The leader in revenue was the game “The Great Sultan”.

This year, the Chinese startup ByteDance will win back the market share of mobile games from Tencent. The company has bought up a number of game studios and IP and is ready to release the first titles.

Crytek Studios and Cloud Imperium Games have been suing each other since 2017. But when Crytek decided to withdraw the lawsuit, the authors of Star Citizen demanded compensation: $ 500 thousand. And they also accused the plaintiff of lying.

A new digital game store will be launched in China. Its owner NetEase plans to sell foreign games to Chinese consumers.

What is the difference between Western and Chinese games, what are the problems facing the hyper-casual games market, as well as the features of publishing in China, we talked with the CEO of the Chinese publisher ModooPlay.

Last year, $16.3 million was invested in video games on Kickstarter. This is only 3% more than the result of 2018.

In the 4th quarter of 2019, Twitch‘s views began to fall. The indicators of Twitch, YouTube Live and Mixer were compared in a joint report by StreamLabs and Newzoo.

Mojo Vision company will introduce contact lenses with augmented reality support in the future. $108 million has already been invested in the project.

Wanted: programmer in CoolGames, brand manager at Square Enix Mobile and head of account department at AdQuantum.

NPD and Sensor Tower analyzed the mobile games market in the USA and Canada. Audience growth in these countries is slowing down, but revenue has increased.

This week, people were fired at the European branch of Perfect World Entertainment. An unnamed number of employees in Amsterdam lost their jobs.

App Annie analyzed the revenue and other metrics of mobile games for 2019. And also named the most popular genres and games of the past year. 

In early November, owners of Android devices began to notice that Google Play no longer shows notifications about successful app updates. A Google representative confirmed: this is not a bug, but a feature.

The Asian video game market will continue to grow this year. Its turnover may reach $65 billion.

The Odnoklassniki social network sums up the results of the year. For the period from January to December 2019, it is going to pay ₽ 3.2 billion to game developers ($49.6 million based on the calculation that the average dollar price for twelve months was ₽64.5).

Unknown Worlds studio has sold more than 5 million copies of Subnautica. This is without taking into account free downloads from the Epic Games Store.