Due to the freezing of game licensing in China, the publisher Tencent has been losing money almost all of last year. Now he is looking for a way to boost his gaming business. Tencent sees the way out in the introduction of the Season Pass into its key titles.

As it turned out, not all publishers place a big bet on loot boxes. Take-Two, for example, earned less than $87 million on boxes with random rewards last fiscal year.

Yesterday, the European Court of Justice ruled that employers in Europe should implement a system for tracking employees’ working hours. According to a number of analysts, this decision will contribute to the fight against crunches in the gaming industry.

The level of console sales of The Division 2 disappointed Ubisoft. In its financial report, the company acknowledged that the game “did not meet ambitious expectations.”