The official announcement and presentation of a new game in the Half-Life series took place. It is called Half-Life: Alyx and will be released only in VR format on the PC platform.

Supercell has launched a creative platform as part of the promotion of Brawl Stars. With its help, players create cosmetics. The company can pay $10 thousand to some of them.

In the third final reading, the State Duma adopted the law on presets. According to him, Russian software must be pre-installed on smart devices sold in Russia.

Studio Dream Games, founded by ex-developers Peak Games, closed the first round of funding. She received $7.5 million to develop mobile puzzles.

The video game market is growing slower than a year earlier, and slower than analysts expected.

Minsk—based Melsoft has launched its own farm – Family Island. It has been in development for more than three years.

China’s NetEase quarterly revenue jumped to $2 billion. Nevertheless, the company’s growth rate has decreased.

KamaGames company told how BlackJack and Pokerist users were re—attracted, using the example of a joint case with Bidease.

The expansion of Playrix continues. One of the most successful gaming companies in the world has announced the launch of a new studio. This time — in Minsk.

PUBG, following many popular games, will redo the system of loot boxes. Locked boxes that need a paid key to open will disappear from the game.

The gaming industry’s contribution to Canadian GDP has reached $3.4 billion. This amount is 20% more than two years ago.

Death Stranding is the fastest—selling PlayStation 4 exclusive in Russia over the past two years. In the first week of sales, it sold more copies than God of War, “Spider-Man” and “Life After” in the same period.

With minimal edits, the Russian State Duma passed a bill in the second reading, according to which the sale of smartphones, laptops and game consoles that do not have programs developed by Russian companies pre-installed in Russia may be banned from the summer of 2020.

The release of Apple Arcade could negatively affect the revenue of premium games in the App Store. By October 18, it had fallen by 13% on a monthly basis. Last year, over the same period, it decreased by only 4%.

Yesterday, November 19, Google launched the Stadia cloud platform. The reaction to it was not too enthusiastic. We have collected reviews of publications.

Sony Pictures Entertainment became the owner of GSN Games. She received this gaming asset by buying out the Game Show Network (GSN).

How do marketers and techies find a common language? Alexander Bezobrazov, Vice President of Marketing at G5 Games, has prepared several cases on how to make this interaction more productive.

Wanted: game designer at RJ Games, technical artist at Saber Interactive and head of advertising monetization at Vizor Games.

The Half-Life series will still have a sequel. Today Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx. And this is a VR game.