This morning Vedomosti reported that by the end of the year Owlcat Games will become one of the partners of the VK Play platform. Now the studio has shared its official position.

As the mobile publisher hopes, with the help of the museum it will be possible not only to preserve the legacy of the industry, but also to pay tribute to the culture of video games.

On September 14, Polish DRAGO Entertainment released a kitchen simulator on wheels on Steam. According to the developers, after 54 hours they recouped the cost of creating the game, amounting to 950 thousand zlotys or $ 200.8 thousand.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to sources close to the company, VK is ready to spend up to $ 10 million so that its platform competes more successfully with Steam and Epic Games Store in Russia and the CIS.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 37th week of the year.

Gameplay videos and part of the GTA VI code surfaced online, the US authorities allocated almost $ 700,000 to research methods of recruiting terrorists and extremists in online games, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The creators of Adopt Me closed access to their project on September 13. According to the developers, they did this “as part of the Roblox program to comply with the laws of the Netherlands and Belgium.” Let us remind you that loot boxes are prohibited in these countries.

Sensor Tower and Homa Games looked at how things are going with the so-called arcade idlers (arcade idle). This is a young subgenre of hyper-casual games in which low-poly little men collect resources.

Sensor Tower has published a detailed report on the situation with mobile games. We share facts from it.

The authors of the game did not tell how the audience was distributed across platforms.

Gaming giant Tencent has invested in the creators of the medieval slasher Mordhau. It is not disclosed on what terms the transaction took place and how much it cost the Chinese company.

Previously, only companies and sole proprietors could do this.

On September 15, Godot developers announced the launch of the beta test of the fourth version of the engine. A significant part of its functions in one form or another started working in the first alpha, but several innovations were also introduced.

The head of Xbox in an interview with CNBC called the video game industry a very competitive market. He pointed out that companies like Tencent and Sony are actively buying up studios, so if Microsoft wants to continue to be a major player, it needs to continue investing after the deal with Activision Blizzard.

It is unknown exactly how many people were left without work. But the network writes that “almost all” employees of Fanbyte, including editor-in-chief Danielle Riendeau, have been cut.

Most likely, Roblox investors were not satisfied with the situation with the receipts (bookings) of the platform. In particular, the ABPDAU index fell to $3.89-3.96, which is 14-16% less compared to last August.

About the situation in Green Grey, salaries of Russian developers and gray schemes for transferring money to the country — in an interview with Sergey Belyaev, co-founder of the Infusion Games studio.

The former developers of the Borderlands series opened their own studio last August. A year later, they announced that they had conducted an initial round of funding and raised money for the first project — a cooperative shooter for PC and consoles.

The Indonesian authorities are dissatisfied with the fact that since June 1, Google obliges developers to use its payment system and pay a commission of 15-30%.