SciPlay Corporation is planning an initial public offering of its shares on the Nasdaq American stock exchange. The studio is a “daughter” of Scientific Games and develops social casinos and casual titles.

In Russia, most of the physical retail is behind projects for PlayStation 4.

The Steam platform is not responsible for geoblocking PC titles in the EU, Valve said. Thus, the company commented on the antitrust investigation of the European Commission (EC) against Valve and five other game publishers.

Chinese giant Tencent has announced the global launch of the distribution platform WeGame X. Previously, there was only a Chinese version of the store called WeGame.

The European Commission suspected Valve, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax of violating EU antitrust laws. If suspicions are confirmed, gaming companies will be heavily fined.

The analytical company SuperData has added a new tool to its Arcade product. This is a service called Arcade Forecaster. Its function is to forecast revenue, MAU and in—game expenses in games based on current market trends.

The Japanese role-playing game Persona 5 has sold 2.4 million copies in two years. This was announced by the executive producer of the project Naoto Hiraoka (Naoto Hiraoka) in an interview for GNN Gamer.

On April 4, the social platform Snapchat announced the launch of its own mobile gaming platform. It’s called Snap Games. Among its first partners are ZeptoLab, Zynga and PikPok.

BioWare CEO Casey Hudson has called the studio staff for a general meeting at which he will share his thoughts on the Kotaku investigation. Recall that on April 2, the publication published a material by Jason Schreier, dedicated to the development of Anthem. BioWare’s response to this material caused a strong reaction on the web.

Kaliningrad indie studio Tortuga Team, famous for the Braveland trilogy, announced the imminent release of a new game — turn-based tactics Spaceland.

Another $500 thousand of the money earned by the game went to charity.

The Elder Scrolls: Blades reached 1 million downloads in the App Store in the first week in early access. This is despite the fact that you can download it only by invitation from Bethesda.

This year, the UK promises to become the second largest gaming market in Europe and the sixth in the world. Now there are 37.3 million gamers in the country who are fond of online games. Newzoo and ACI Worldwide specialists investigated their preferences and found out which of them and why is ready to invest in gaming products.

The founder of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin has suspended accepting payments on Patreon. According to the developer, the service is having problems right now.

Epic Games has announced the release of the next version of Unreal Engine — 4.22. The update includes 174 improvements.

China has received permission to publish the first foreign titles. The new list of games approved by the Chinese government, for the first time since the resumption of licensing, includes 30 foreign, including nine Japanese and six American.

Spending by British players on video games rose to $7.43 billion last year. This is a record for the industry in the UK, according to UKIE analysts. In 2017, the turnover of the video game industry in the country was 10% lower.

The investigation of Jason Schreier about the development of Anthem has not gone unanswered by BioWare. He appeared in the studio blog 16 minutes after the publication of the material on Kotaku. BioWare’s response does not contain any theses challenging Schreier’s information. The comment was clearly prepared in advance, and the studio did not read the material itself.

Released at the end of February, Anthem became the lowest-rated game in the history of BioWare. It was raw, not ready for release and managed to annoy the players even at the demo stage. Kotaku portal spoke with 19 anonymous BioWare employees who worked directly on the game or were related to it. And they told me why it happened.