Sony might be planning to improve its relationship with indie developers and publishers. According to the global partner survey’s results, the company wants to fix some of PlayStation’s problems, including bad communication and poor discoverability.

Joining us today for a quick recap of 2021 is Mátyás Csernák, CEO at Grand Beats Production. Grand Beats Production is an audio production studio specializing in video game SFX, music, voice overs, and audio implementation.

Boss Fight creative director Damion Schubert has shared a great thread about the dark side of AAA games’ economics. Players often complain about big companies raising price tags and still releasing titles with loot boxes, but in reality, producing games with nine-figure budgets these days is way more complex than that.

Discoverability expert Simon Carless has shared his thoughts on how developers can quantify their game’s success on Steam based on the number of user reviews. According to his calculations, only 1.5% of new titles released in October 2021 sold at least 40k units in week one.

Poland has become another country to investigate Apple’s privacy policy. The company is now facing an investigation from the local antimonopoly regulator UOKiK over the possible violation of antitrust law.

Roblox has pressured People Make Games to delete their video explaining how the platform is exploiting kids who dream about becoming game developers. The team, however, refused to follow the company’s order and released a new detailed investigation instead.

An adoption of four-day workweeks has become a new trend for a lot of small studios and even some AAA teams. So what do game developers think of this system and how can it improve their workflow?

In the latest installment of our “2021 in Video Games” series, we are joined by Elina Arponen, CEO and co-founder of Helsinki-based HTML5 startup Quicksave Interactive, to discuss what the year meant for the studio and the HTML5 market.

Microsoft has tried to convince Apple that it will be great for users to get some AAA games from Xbox on iOS, according to new private emails. However, negotiations about bringing xCloud to the App Store didn’t end well due to some financial and engineering disagreements.

Google has revealed its plans to bring Android mobile games to Windows. The company officially confirmed that Google Play Games will come to PC in 2022.

It’s been a year since the release of Cyberpunk 2077. Due to a lot of issues and scandals, CD Projekt shares dropped by 54% over the last 12 months. On top of that, the game’s sales are far from the initially optimistic forecasts.

MYTONA has joined numerous tech companies that have their own metaverses. Its project is called MYTONAVERSE and will unite people in a social sandbox, where they could make friends and change virtual worlds.

For a new installment in our “2021 in Video Games” series, we are joined by Peter Warman, Co-Founder and CEO of Newzoo.

CD Projekt might soon be able to settle a class-action lawsuit from investors over Cyberpunk 2077’s botched launch. However, it doesn’t mean that the company is going to accept all allegations against it.

An appeals court has granted Apple’s request to put the previous order on pause. It means that the company doesn’t have to make changes to its App Store policy, which would let developers add links to third-party payment solutions.

As we all know, the world of mobile ads has changed forever since the release of iOS 14.5. Apple let users say no to tracking their personal data. Some apps, however, are still collecting information using a looser interpretation of Apple’s privacy rules.

Young developers who tried to get jobs at Riot Games, Rockstar, and Manticore Games fell victim to an unknown group of scammers. The impostors presented themselves as recruiters, showing devs what looked like authentic paperwork, to extort money from them.

Time Loader is a new story-driven and physics-based puzzle game created by small indie team Flazm. We spoke to the studio’s head Alexey “Flazm” Davydov about the development process, the game’s mechanics, publishers, budgets, and the indie dev space in general.