Apple announced that the AppTrackingTransparency requirements will apply starting April 26, 2021

Developers usually make demos and prologues relatively short. However, titles like Loop Hero and The Riftbreaker prove that letting people play your game for hours before release can increase its discoverability and number of wishlists.

In case you’ve ever wondered if there has been “a race-to-the-bottom in pricing on Steam,” here is a graph that could help answer this question.

After twenty years of being “a limited liability company”, Techland changed its company details to “Techland S.A.” “S.A.” is short for “Spółka Akcyjna”, which means a publicly-traded company.

Three weeks after confirming the closure of PlayStation Store for PS3, PS Vita and PSP, Sony changed its mind. The company now said that users will continue to be able to purchase digital copies of games on PS3 and PS Vita. The support for PSP, though, will terminate on July 2, as originally planned.

Microsoft announced that tomorrow it’ll begin sending out invites to start testing the Xbox Cloud Gaming limited beta for Windows 10 PCs and Apple phones and tablets via web browsers.

China remains the biggest and one of the fastest-growing games markets in the world. Experts expect it to account for almost the third of total games industry revenue in 2021.

Data platform for indie devs Video Game Insights has launched a new tool that highlights genres that make the most money and genres that are oversupplied.

Mobile gaming analytics company GameRefinery analyzed the top 200 grossing iOS games in the US and China to find out five features that impact the revenue the most.

Jake Birkett, owner of Grey Alien Games (Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, and Regency Solitaire) has shared an interesting graph showing how well wishlists convert into purchases depending on the month added.

In the first quarter (ended on March 31), Crash Bandicoot: On the Run became one of the top mobile games in terms of revenue and downloads. King’s title also surpassed 20 million downloads faster than any other runner before, including Subway Surfers.

miHoYo has announced otome “romance x detective x adventure” game Tears of Themis for iOS and Android.

Bad luck seems to continue to plague Amazon’s incursions into the gaming space. The Twitch owner has canceled The Lord of the Rings online role-playing game announced in 2019.

Days Gone creative director and writer John Garvin attributes the cancellation of the sequel to the mixed reviews the game received. In the meantime, over 47,000 people have signed the petition for a Days Gone sequel on Change.org.

The Hitman creators have shared their plans for the near future. IO Interactive has opened a third studio to help support its current games and an unannounced new IP. The company also has ambitions to publish titles from third-party developers.

Epic Games-backed Core has entered early access. It is a platform that gives users tools to create and monetize their own games, as well as travel between thousands of worlds within a so-called multiverse.

Recognized chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has announced the launch of his new premium platform Kasparovchess that’s been several years in the making. It’s a place where professionals will share their tips and lessons and analyze games from players around the world.

Before releasing its annual financial report for 2020, CD Projekt shared the estimated numbers. The company earned a record-breaking $563 million, which is more than 2 times higher than revenues for 2015 — the year when The Witcher 3 was released.

The Indie Publishing Awards 2021 ceremony aired yesterday for the first time.