Last Thursday, ZeptoLab released the first third-party game. In Russia, it is called “Am Yum: Evolution” and is an idler with merge mechanics. We have in the material a story about the project and a short interview with the head of the publishing direction of ZeptoLab.

On January 23-24, a conference for game developers White Nights will be held in the capital of the Netherlands. Recently, its first speakers became known.

Solutions from mobile game development are also moving into “big” development. In the Age of Empires 4 desktop strategy, the training will be based on the analytics collected by the developers.

British Codemasters is building up its asset portfolio. She is going to acquire London-based Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million.

One of the main global releases of December on the mobile games market will be Black Desert Mobile. In the softlonch alone, the game generated more than half a million dollars in a month.

Sensor Tower this week announced two mobile games at once, whose combined revenue reached $2 billion. Such indicators can now boast Candy Crush Soda Saga by King and Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle by Bandai Namco.

Non-standard gaming niches also attract investors. Genvid Technologies, a company engaged in the creation of technology for interactive streaming of esports broadcasts, recently received almost three tens of millions of dollars from business angels.

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.