Industry January 16, 2018 Epic Games paid $200 thousand to the winners of Unreal Dev Grants. Epic Games summed up the results of the Unreal Dev Grants grant competition, in which 13 developers of games and content on the Unreal Engine shared more than $200 thousand among themselves.
Industry January 16, 2018 Lego and Tencent will develop online games for Chinese children The manufacturer of Lego constructors has teamed up with Tencent Corporation. The companies intend to cooperate in creating online games and social media for young Chinese citizens.
Industry January 16, 2018 Visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! scored 2 million downloads on Steam A psychological thriller about Japanese schoolgirls shows an excellent result on Steam. An anime game from an American developer has gathered an audience of 2 million players in four months.
Development January 16, 2018 Remedy: Single AAA games are too expensive to develop The authors of Max Payne and Quantum Break from the Finnish studio Remedy admitted that the creation of high-budget game projects with an eye to a single game has become unaffordable for most developers.
Industry January 16, 2018 Netmarble: Lineage 2: Revolution received especially a lot of organics from Europe and Russia Netmarble US CEO Simon Sim commented on the western release of Lineage 2: Revolution. According to him, especially a lot of organics came from Europe and Russia.
Investments and transactions January 16, 2018 MTS has bought the Gambit Esports esports club MTS has acquired the Gambit Esports club, Vedomosti reports.
Industry January 16, 2018 Belka Games company was headed by Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.
Games January 16, 2018 The start of the Overwatch League on Twitch was simultaneously watched by 425 thousand viewers The broadcast of the opening games of the debut season of the Overwatch League on January 10 on Twitch simultaneously gathered 425 thousand viewers.