Croteam Croatian studio has a new owner. Now the company’s assets belong to the publisher Devolver Digital. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Alexey Slabukhin, CEO of the HellRaisers esports organization, spoke about the process of creating a team and the salary level of professional players. According to him, in the CIS, only a couple of people receive $ 15-20 thousand.In his blog on Cybersport.ru .

Exactly one week later, Ubisoft Club and Uplay services will become a single application — Ubisoft Connect. Crossplay and crossprogression will appear in it.

In recent months, mobile developers and marketers have been in limbo. They don’t fully understand how Apple’s desire to oblige companies to request permission from users to collect personal data will turn out. As our Digiday colleagues found out, Apple recently shared additional information on the issue. Unfortunately, there was no good news.

Almost 500 thousand people decided to watch how the American congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) plays Among Us for the first time in her life. This is one of the biggest broadcasts in the history of Twitch.

Former developers of StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3 have founded a studio that will create real-time strategies. They have already raised $4.7 million, including from Riot Games.

Cliff Bleszinski, known for his work on the Unreal and Gears of War series, analyzed the failure of the Boss Key studio he created. Now the game designer wants to return to the industry, inspired by the success of small games like Among Us and Fall Guys.Blesinski is working on a memoir about his career, which spans 20 years at Epic Games and work on the company’s classic titles.

A month after the announcement, the Luna cloud gaming service became available to a limited number of users. So far, you can enter the platform only by invitation, and play only in the titles of the main channel.

The creators of the Dragonlance universe sued Wizards of the Coast, which suddenly canceled the release of their several new books. The authors want to recover over $10 million from the company and believe that the termination of the contract is connected with racist scandals around the publisher.Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss, 2008

Since the beginning of the protests, about 1,200 IT specialists have moved from Belarus to Ukraine. Another 800 left for Poland. And this flow is growing. Sergey Bruy, co-founder and managing director of the Belarusian Vizor Games, believes that “the picture is sad“, but additional challenges can benefit Belarusians.

The new Oculus Quest 2 VR headset does not support games for Oculus Go. We are talking about 66 titles, some of which were significant for the platform. For example, Land’s End from Ustwo Games.

Yesterday, there was widespread talk in the Russian-speaking environment about changes in Apple’s rules concerning the image of weapons in games. The company made a number of clarifications back in September 2019, but until recently they did not receive proper publicity.Now on the Apple website there is a detailed list of criteria for the image of firearms in the materials of games in the App Store.

The marketing company Adjust has launched a new analytical tool — Subscription Tracking. It shows statistics on the actions of users of mobile subscription services.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is not sure that the company should maintain a partnership with Nintendo. The placement of titles on the Switch console is under threat. But things could still change if a Japanese corporation agrees to support the Xbox Game Pass.

Young American politicians are using video games to attract new voters. So far, it is not massive, but yesterday Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) decided to play Among Us. In a matter of hours, more than 100 thousand people subscribed to her Twitch.”Would anyone like to play Among Us with me on Twitch to encourage people to vote (I’ve never played it, but it seems to be a lot of fun),” wrote 31-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, a…

The co-founder of Valve claims that due to remote work, the company’s productivity has fallen to 50-75%. As a solution to the problem, he considers the relocation of developers to New Zealand, where the strictest quarantine measures almost coped with COVID-19.

The developers of the NBA 2K21 basketball simulator found themselves in the center of a new scandal. The game, which is sold for full price, has promotional video inserts during downloads. You can’t skip them or disable them in the settings.

In the USA, revenue from sales of video games, hardware and accessories continues to grow. Last month, the market turnover amounted to $4.3 billion — a billion more than in August.

After Sony denied the creator of Return of the Obra Dinn the right to introduce a temporary discount, attention was drawn to the problem on English-language forums and social networks. It turned out that this is not the first time the company does not allow indie developers to arrange sales.Lucas Pope, the creator of the detective indie game Return of the Obra Dine, decided to arrange a sale in honor of the two-year anniversary of…