In the second quarter, American players spent $11.6 billion on video games and related products. As analysts from the NPD Group note, this is an absolute record. At the same time, every third owner of a PS4 or Xbox One has at least both consoles.Key data

The Defold game engine has a new strong partner. The Defold Foundation organization that owns it has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Minsk-based game studio Melsoft Games.

The authors who worked on the plots for the Lovestruck mobile game have been trying to get an increase in compensation for three weeks. As a result, the publisher, represented by Voltage Entertainment, made concessions and increased the salary of all remote screenwriters.”We would not have been able to achieve this if we had not acted collectively.

In 17 days, the teenager managed to spend $ 20 thousand on subscriptions and donations on Twitch. It took his family a month to get the money back. By the way, Twitch itself has not responded to the situation.

According to rumors, in the purchase of the gaming division of Warner Bros. several major publishers were interested at once — including Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard. However, now the head of the company has issued an official denial.WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar wrote a letter to the company’s employees, in which he denied information about the sale of Warner Bros.

Electronic Arts shareholders refused bonuses to the company’s top management and gave a serious reason for reflection. Up to this point, only 2.2% of companies in the Russell 3000 index did not receive bonuses due to investor decisions.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout continues to set records. Last weekend, the number of simultaneous players on Steam exceeded the figures of many hits of this year, including DOOM Eternal and Sea of Thieves.On August 8, Fall Guys reached 124.7 thousand simultaneous players, according to game analyst Benji-Sales.

The latest game in the Animal Crossing series has become not only one of the most successful titles on the current generation of consoles, but also approached the title of the best-selling game in the history of the Japanese market. There is only one project from the Pokémon series ahead.On August 7, the Game Data Library project, which counts game sales in Japan, announced new successes of Animal Crossing:

After the history of the development of the game Aeon Must Die! it was widely publicized, its publisher made official statements. He addressed all the accusations to Limestone Games, but promised to look into the situation.

Facebook still managed to release Facebook Gaming on iOS after five refusals from Apple. However, in order to do this, the company was forced to remove all games and related functions from its application.At the same time, Android users, where Facebook Gaming appeared in April, have access to all the functions of the application.

Analysts at Niko Partners found that over the past month Apple has removed 42 thousand games from the Chinese App Store. The number will only grow, as the company seriously intends to get rid of all applications that do not have permission to publish in China by the end of the year.Over the past month, Apple has removed about 15 thousand games that do not have a license to publish in China.

Services for “playing in the cloud” violate the rules of the App Store, Apple reports. Neither Google Stadia nor Microsoft xCloud will be released on the Apple platform.

The Trump administration announced the launch of the Clean Network program, which aims to protect data from the “Chinese threat.” The initiative should limit the activities of application developers, mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers in the United States.Main provisions and objectives

US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders. The first prohibits Americans from making ByteDance transfers, the second partially prohibits working with Tencent. Officially, they are directed against TikTok and WeChat, respectively.

Yesterday, the developers of Unreal Engine and Fortnite announced the seventh round of funding. Thanks to the deal, the company’s price increased to a fabulous $17.3 billion.

A scandal in Estonia. Some of the employees of Limestone Games, led by its founder, left the studio, accusing the owners of unbearable working conditions, manipulation and corruption. The future of their game Aeon Must Die!, published by Focus Home Interactive, is in question.

Today, as part of the publication of the report for the second fiscal quarter, Zynga announced a new deal. She buys the Turkish publisher Rollic Games. The latter is among the top 25 most successful hypercausal companies on the market.As a result, 80% of the shares of mobile developer and publisher Rollic will be transferred to Zynga.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is confidently moving towards not only becoming the main Nintendo game, but also one of the central releases of the current generation of consoles. The game has almost caught up with one of the best-selling games of recent years, Red Dead Redemption 2.

Big Run Studios, specializing in casual mobile games, raised $5.25 million. The seed round was led by Transcend Fund, and Galaxy Interactive was the other investor.Thanks to the investments received, the California studio will be able to release a new Big Cooking game soon.