Sales of Windows Mixed Reality helmets from Microsoft may overtake Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets this quarter, according to Stephanie Llamas, vice president of the SuperData analytics company.

The client of the gaming platform Battle.net Blizzard has received new social features: voice and text chats, user profiles with avatars and the “don’t show me online” option.

Game publisher Kongregate has acquired 100% of mobile game developer Synapse Games for an undisclosed amount.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely has opened its first branch outside of America. The new office is located in Barcelona.

Unity Technologies, together with the Pluralsight training platform, has launched a course to teach the development of three-dimensional games on the Unity engine from the ground level.

Rhythm game The Idolmaster Million Live!: Theater Days (アイドルマスター ミリオンライブ！ シアターデイズ) for iOS from the company Bandai Namco has earned $10 million for 90 days. The game was not released outside Japan.

Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Epic Games’ Fortnite cooperative shooter has gathered 7 million players on all platforms thanks to the “Battle Royale” free-play mode, which started on September 26.

Amazon Internet Corporation has acquired the company Body Labs. The latter has developed a technology that captures the figure of a person and his movements at home, on the basis of which it immediately generates a three-dimensional model.

The director of the films “District No. 9”, “Elysium” and “Chappie” Neill Blomkamp (Neill Blomkamp) releases two short fiction films created entirely on the Unity engine.

How is the work on games built within Supercell teams, – App2Top.ru told the product-lead Hay Day and Boom Beach.

The autumn editorial selection of Android Excellence games from the Google Play app store included the puzzle adventure Karma.Incarnation 1. by the Russian studio AuraLab.

The American studio Level Ex has raised $11 million in investments for the further development of realistic surgical simulators.

Wanted: programmer at Game Forest, illustrator at Nevosoft, traffic manager at Kefir! studio and many, many people at Playrix.

Microsoft is negotiating with Bluehole Studio to extend the exclusive period of the PvP shooter version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for the Xbox One platform amid negotiations on the release of the game on PS4.

Every third game for the Nintendo Switch console is developed on the Unity engine, Unity Technologies reported.

The revenues of the mobile time manager of Restaurant Dash: Gordon Ramsay under the brand of chef and TV star Gordon Ramsay from Glu Games studio reached $17 million.

The strategy of Total War: Warhammer II by Creative Assembly studio after the release on September 28 simultaneously gathered 72 thousand players on Steam. This is 36% less than the first part of the game, which gathered 112 thousand people at the start a year ago.

The president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Andrew House, announced his departure. He worked at Sony Corporation for almost 27 years.