The fiscal year, starting April 2021 and ending March 2022, has a chance to become record-breaking for Nintendo in terms of software and hardware sales.

Among Us has seen its concurrent player count drop to 24 thousand on Steam.

Roblox has hit $2.5 billion in lifetime player spending across the App Store and Google play. This is according to Sensor Tower data estimates, which provide some context to the company’s going public today via a direct listing.

Mobile developers and publishers continue to release heavier games, as the average file size on the US App Store has grown 76% in the last five years.

Mobile marketing platform AppLovin announced its decision to go public. The company filed for IPO, as its revenue grew to $1.45 billion in 2020.

Now that the acquisition of ZeniMax has been approved by regulators, Microsoft is ready to publicly reveal the details of this deal in a video presentation. However, no new game announcements are expected.

Germany is considering a new reform of the Youth Protection Act. The government wants to protect kids from gambling-like mechanics by classifying games with loot boxes 18+.

Since December 2020, WN Media Group has been running a large-scale contest for the best Unreal Engine game among European developers. The contest is held in collaboration with Unreal Engine and Reboot Develop. Today, on March 5, the organizers announced the quarterfinalists. Of the 555 submitted games, the jury members selected 155 titles.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has just accepted Microsoft’s filing for its deal with ZeniMax. The European Commission is the only instance left to approve the acquisition.

The lead designer of Hogwarts Legacy quit the studio following a public backlash. It happened after he was criticized for the views he expressed on his YouTube channel.

Theorycraft Games is a new studio formed by former developers of League of Legends, Halo, Dota 2, and Overwatch. They raised $37.5 million to make PvP titles.

Genshin Impact continues its rise to the top. Its revenue hit $874 million, making it one of the top grossing mobile titles worldwide.

As part of WN Dev Contest, we are discussing the industry with the jury members. In this installment, we catch up with Piotr Karbowski, CEO at CreativeForge Games (part of PalyWay group).

Russian publisher MY.GAMES announced its revenue reached over $0.5 billion in 2020. Mobile games were the key factor, contributing to over 70% of total earnings.

German mobile game developer and publisher InnoGames has been growing consecutively for more than 10 years. In 2020, it hit a record-breaking revenue of over $260 million.

Publisher Zynga follows its ambitions of developing games for PC and consoles. To bring its existing franchises outside the mobile sector, the company has just bought Echtra Games, creators of Torchlight III.

The legal fight for The Sinking City is not slowing down. The game has been removed from Steam again after Valve received a DMCA claim.