Belgium again does not let down games with loot boxes. Next up are mobile titles from Nintendo.

Console World of Warships: Legends went into early access a month ago. During this time, more than 1 million owners of PS4 and Xbox One have registered in it.

Along with one scandal due to the “mega-sale” in the Epic Games Store, another occurred. The store’s users complained that the company was blocking their accounts for buying too many games.

Israeli developer Playtika, known for its social casinos, has created its first internal division. It was named Games Lab.

The Chinese publisher NetEase has entered into a partnership with Pokémon and Marvel. Now the first mobile Pokemon game will appear in China, as well as new titles with Marvel comics characters.

The largest game publishers pay huge sums to top streamers for broadcasting new titles. The earnings of some of them can reach $ 50 thousand per hour.

The creators of Unity were accused of being unethical. The company has updated its engine to version 2019.1, focusing on those changes that are “especially useful for developers in the gambling industry.”

Borderlands 3 also left the Epic Games Store for the duration of the “mega sale”. In recent days, this is the third game withdrawn from the store by its own publisher.

Yesterday, the first major sale — Epic Mega Sale – started in the Epic Games Store. There were some incidents. Vampire games disappeared from the store immediately after the promotion started: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 and Oxygen Not Included.

The famous Minecraft game franchise will receive another offshoot — now in the form of a mobile geolocation title. It will be called Minecraft Earth.

And in the first place in terms of income — not Fortnite.

The strike of hundreds of Riot Games employees did not convince the studio management that it was necessary to change. It stands firm on the issue of “forced arbitration,” as stated in a newly released statement by Riot.

Here’s the twist: Sony and Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership. Companies that are direct competitors will take care of the future of cloud gaming together.

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.”

Valve has released an iOS version of the Steam Link app. Streaming of Steam games on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV has now become available.

Earlier this week, Chinese players got access to the Epic Games Store. But officially Epic Games did not report anything.