Wrapping up our “2021 in Video Games” series is Piotr Gnyp, Chief Marketing Office at indie games developer and publisher Movie Games.

Valve has revealed the top-selling and most played Steam games of 2021. Battlefield 2042 and Valheim were among leaders by revenue, while Cyberpunk 2077 and Halo Infinite topped the charts by concurrent players.

Forward Game Studios senior product manager Mike Crassweller has shared a few thoughts on the development costs of indie games. While some people think that budgets are “bloated,” he disagrees and explains why it often might cost millions of dollars for a small team to make one project.

Remedy Entertainment has signed a development, license, and distribution agreement with Tencent. The Chinese giant will co-finance the production of PvE shooter codenamed Vanguard and localize it for the selected Asian markets.

In this episode of our “2021 in Video Games” series, Konrad Adamczewski, PR Specialist at 11 bit studios, discusses how the company’s development and publishing arms fared this year.

A few reports about Steam malfunctions in China emerged over the weekend, followed by headlines like “Steam might be banned in China.” The store’s client, however, is still working, but there are some nuances that signal potential government interference.

Joining us for the new “2021 in Video Games” episode is Gökçe Nur Oguz, CEO and Co-founder at playable & interactive ad platform Playable Factory.

StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg have shared some stats on the Twitch viewership for 2021. Grand Theft Auto V became the most streamed video game, only behind the Just Chatting category.

Analytics platform BuzzGuru has analyzed the influencer marketing strategy for RAID: Shadow Legends, finding how much money Plarium pays YouTube creators on average. According to the report, the company has spent $8.66 on this type of ads over the last six months.

Quantic Dream is currently working on Star Wars Eclipse, an action-adventure game set in the Star Wars universe. Industry insider Tom Henderson has released a video on the history of Star Wars Eclipse and the current state of the game, as alleged by various sources.

VOID Interactive parted ways with publisher Team17 just days after promising to add a school shooting level in Ready or Not. The studio has now commented on the matter, saying that it hopes to make an authentic and realistic game while also honoring those who have been impacted by real tragedies.

Joining us for another “2021 in Video Games” episode is Michael Hudson, CEO and Co-Founder of GameBake. GameBake is a game distribution platform that provides end-to-end distribution, monetisation and marketing solutions.

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has commented on the concepts of Web3 and the metaverse. He thinks that all these ideas are just overhyped and lack compelling scenarios.

Joining us for another episode of the “2021 in Video Games” series is Guillaume Jamet, Vice-President and Head of Publishing at Plug In Digital.

Yuji Naka, known as one of the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog, has released SHOT2048, his first mobile title as an indie developer. It is a hypercasual puzzle game, which he created by himself after leaving Square Enix.

Sérgio Varanda, Chief Creative Officer at Miniclip, discusses the journey 8 Ball Pool has been on since its beginning as an online flash game in 2010.

Naughty Dog has shared a list of video games that “inspired, thrilled, and entertained” the team in 2021. It includes titles like Deathloop, It Takes Two, Inscryption, and even Bugsnax.

GfK Entertainment senior client director Dorian Bloch has shared the data on the top-selling physical copies of video games in the UK during the Christmas holidays over the last 38 years. In a nutshell, Electronic Arts and Activision are the two undisputed leaders.

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has shared guidelines on creating inclusive games, which it has developed in collaboration with Facebook Gaming. The organization pointed out the main principles of diversity that developers should follow to make their titles more appealing to different audiences.