Tencent will once again be able to update a number of its applications in China. The company managed to reach an agreement with the authorities three weeks after the ban was issued. However, it is unclear whether the restriction on the release of new mobile products will remain valid.The decision was made by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the South China Morning Post reports.

OpenBCI has raised funds to fund the further development and improvement of its neurocomputer interfaces for gaming, health and other areas. One of the investors was the venture capital firm of Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games.In addition to Merrill’s NaHCO3 company, Bitkraft Ventures and re.Mind have invested in OpenBCI.

CD Projekt managed to reach an agreement with investors on the settlement of a class action lawsuit related to the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077. They will waive all claims against the company and members of the management board, and in return will receive compensation in the amount of $ 1.85 million.CD Projekt announced this in a new report on its official website.

GSC Game World has announced a collaboration with the DMarket platform to create its own metaverse. In the upcoming shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl, NFTs will appear, and token holders will be able to become NPCs inside the game itself.The project was named S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metaverse.

The other day, Peter Molyneux announced the Legacy blockchain game. Nothing is really known about the project yet, but the possibility of buying virtual land in the form of NFT has already attracted the first customers. In three days, Molineux Studio 22cans managed to sell digital plots worth £40 million ($53 million).What is Legacy?

Sony intends to improve its relationship with indie developers. According to the results of a survey for PlayStation partners, the company plans to fix a number of obvious problems of its platform. We are talking about slow communication, low findability of games and opacity of work processes.What prompted Sony to respond to the problems?

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, the number of copies sold and the revenue of the game on Steam can be roughly calculated based on the number of user reviews. It turned out that in October, only 1.5% of the total number of new releases sold over 40,000 copies in the first seven days.Carless shared his thoughts in the latest issue of his newsletter.

Roblox has been criticized more than once for exploiting teenagers. However, the internal economy of the popular platform hides much more tricks for young users. The People Make Games channel talked about the black market of cosmetic items and explained in detail why the Roblox trading platform resembles gambling and the stock market.

The other day on App2Top.ru there was a live broadcast with Anton Vinogradov, co—founder of the Samustai studio, which is engaged in porting indie titles to the console and publishing them. We talked in detail about the process of transferring games, optimization and the difficulties of working with different platforms. They also touched upon business processes, including revenue distribution, features of console marketing and sales.

At the last The Game Awards, Saber Interactive studio announced the sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The creation of a third-person shooter is handled by a division from St. Petersburg, and the head of the World War Z team heads the development.

Exactly a year ago, Cyberpunk 2077 was released. Due to numerous problems, CD Projekt shares have fallen by 54% during this time. At the same time, sales of the game are far from initially optimistic forecasts and may turn out to be unsatisfactory.Analysts expect the stock to fall by another 12% in the next 12 months, according to Bloomberg.

New details of Microsoft’s negotiations with Apple have become known from the published emails. For the sake of launching a cloud gaming service in the App Store, the company was ready to make a number of compromises. On iOS, among other things, AAA Xbox exclusives could appear. However, the negotiations have reached an impasse due to financial and technical differences.This was reported by The Verge with reference to documents related to the litigation between Apple…

Kickstarter has announced plans to create a “decentralized future” for its platform. Next year it will switch to the blockchain protocol. The company’s decision was criticized by many indie developers, promising to switch to other crowdfunding platforms.Kickstarter told about its plans on the official website.

Recently Ubisoft announced its own Quartz NFT platform. It will sell unique cosmetic items for the company’s AAA titles. Despite Ubisoft’s ambitious plans, the announcement video received over 96% dislikes. Players, among others, do not understand why they should use blockchain to sell “cosmetics”, because there are much more reliable and time-tested technologies for this.

CD Projekt has a chance to resolve the conflict with investors in a pre-trial order. The company has entered into negotiations to settle the class action. Separately, the developers of Cyberpunk 2077 noted that they are not going to agree with all the claims in their address.CD Projekt announced this in a new report on its official website.

Sensor Tower and App Annie have presented their reports on the global mobile games market for 2021. According to both companies, users spent almost $90 billion on mobile titles. Analysts also shared their own data on the most downloaded and cash projects.Genshin Impact

The dismissals of temporary Raven Software testers did not leave many employees in other Activision Blizzard studios indifferent. To date, more than 200 people have joined the strike. They protest against “arbitrariness” in the workplace and demand the reinstatement of all dismissed.Call of Duty: Warzone

Minsk studio FreePlay reported on a new achievement. The total number of downloads of her games worldwide exceeded 500 million. It took the company only two years to do this.

At the end of last week, Activision Blizzard cut about a third of Raven Software’s QA specialists responsible for testing Call of Duty: Warzone. As a result, the employees staged a strike, demanding to reinstate the dismissed and offer them the previously promised promotions.Call of Duty: Warzone