On April 25, VK launched a beta version of the VK Play gaming platform. Until today, only legal entities could publish on it.

This is reported by CNews. According to the publication, the company sold Nexters Studio for 200 rubles, Nexters Online and Lightmap for 100 rubles each and 70% in Gamepositive for another 100 rubles.

Two days ago, the Call of Duty Twitter account announced a new operative skin — Doomsayer. But gamers quickly noted its similarity to the Variant 402 skin from the game Deadrop, which is being developed by the Midnight Society studio.

The Communications Workers of America union has filed a new complaint against Activision Blizzard. He stated that the publisher illegally monitored employees during the July strike.

Freelance employees of the Nintendo Of America QA department told Kotaku about the unhealthy situation inside the company.

The new publisher is called Paradox Arc. He is going to publish deep and replayable titles from small studios.

In May App2Top.ru published his own analysis of the merge-games market. Not all market participants agreed with our conclusions at that time. The answer to that material can be considered the current AppMagic study. Its authors look at the prospects of the genre differently.

The growth of the German gaming market has slowed down. The Game Association reported that its revenue for the first half of the year increased by only 2%. For comparison: last year the growth was 22%.

The developers of Free Fire are going through hard times. According to the financial report, in the second quarter, Garena dropped all key indicators.

A hint of this was noticed in the remaster of “Spider-Man”. In the code of the game, they found the line “PlayStation PC launcher”, which suggested that Sony is engaged in the launcher.

According to Ekaterina Mizulina, it is necessary to block the streaming service before the start of the school year. She is sure that this will help protect schoolchildren from prohibited content.

Three months ago, Microsoft announced the Dev Box cloud service, with which developers can remotely interact with pre-configured workstations. Yesterday, the corporation officially opened access to it for everyone.

The conference will be held in Limassol. The program includes two days of networking, a big party and a number of closed sessions.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a graphic designer at ZiMAD, a senior iOS developer at Agranovsky IT and a newsman for a blockchain project at WN Media Group.

This is 35% less than a month ago, according to a recent report PocketGamer.biz and Stream Hatchet.

Tencent said it wants to focus on its core strategy and is therefore “making adjustments to the Huanhe business.“ She added that users can still store tokens on the platform and request a refund.

The company decided to do so in honor of the anniversary of the Pokémon series of games — at the beginning of the year that turned 25 years old.

Otkritie Bank came to this conclusion after interviewing a thousand Russians aged 18-65 years.

By the time the exchange closed on August 15, the value of Unity shares had fallen to $54.3 per share. This is how investors reacted to the rejection of the company’s board of directors from the deal with AppLovin.