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Ubisoft has started work on Assassin’s Creed Infinity, which will determine the future development vector of the entire series. The company itself is still reluctant to share details, but it will probably be an ever-evolving game service. At the head of the development is one of the creators of Splinter Cell.For the first time, Jason Schreier told about Assassin’s Creed Infinity.

The Swedish Embracer Group holding is one of the most active in the M&A market. According to Bloomberg analysts, over the past 12 months, the company has already announced 27 deals. But such growth carries its own risks.

Amazon decided to significantly upgrade its Lumberyard technology and turned it into an open source engine. It is called Open 3D Engine and is suitable for creating cross-platform AAA games. The developers note that there will be dozens of different tools in the new modular engine.Lumberyard was originally based on the CryEngine engine, which Amazon licensed from Crytek in 2015.

Yesterday, June 6, Nintendo announced a new Nintendo Switch with an OLED screen. Although the gaming community reacted very coolly to the presentation, investors did not react to it. The company’s stock price has barely changed.

Due to the peculiarities of the legislation of South Korea, Minecraft in the country automatically became an adult game. Today it is legally possible to play it only from the age of 19. Local teenagers did not like it, and they decided to appeal directly to the president by preparing a petition.

What is Mobile Game Commerce? Why is it needed? What do the App Store and Google Play think about payments made in multiplatform games? How do superapps work? We talked about this and many other things with Xsolla.

Roblox continues to fight for its reputation. This time she signed an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment, one of the largest record companies. Together they plan to attract more musicians to the Roblox platform.

Publisher and developer of mobile games with Russian roots Green Grey has announced its second public deal over the summer. The company in partnership with game designer and producer Grigory Dorogov opens a studio for the development of casual games NPU Games.

Nintendo has officially unveiled a new version of Switch. The console will have a 7-inch OLED screen. However, contrary to previous rumors, it will not support 4K resolution in TV mode.

After the release of iOS 14.5, advertising costs on Android increased significantly. The situation was reflected, among other things, on the Facebook Audience Network advertising network, whose customers in June began spending most of their budgets on Android traffic.

By the end of June App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Pokémon GO developers can boast of a new achievement. In total, in the five years since the release, the game’s revenue has reached $ 5 billion, according to analysts from Sensor Tower. Thus, the Niantic AR project manages to generate an average of $1 billion annually, while regularly increasing revenue.Key data

The mobile simulator of the Family Island farm from Minsk Melsoft continues to gain cash. Its total revenue exceeded the bar of $ 100 million, and monthly income — $ 10 million, — AppMagic reports.

Not all gamers reacted positively to the news about the partnership between Microsoft and Hideo Kojima. Some PlayStation fans don‘t want to see a new game by a Japanese game designer on Xbox. They even called his actions “betrayal.” Now users have created a petition demanding to cancel a possible cloud project.The corresponding petition appeared on the website Change.org , which drew the attention of users of gaming forums.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a large-scale report on the largest legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

The video game industry has set a new record for deals. Investment banking company Drake Star Partners estimated that by July 2021, the amount spent on investments and M&A transactions turned out to be almost twice as much as in the whole of 2020.

Mehmet Aydin (Mehmet Aydin) is the creator of the online farm Farm Bank, with which he drew over a hundred thousand people into a financial pyramid. In total, with the help of this scheme, he received $ 130 million, after which he went on the run. Now he has been extradited to Turkey, where he faces a term of up to 75 thousand years.

Another gaming company is preparing to enter the stock exchange. China‘s Qingci Games has filed for an IPO. The studio has six mobile games on its account, of which the most famous is Marvelous Snail — a casual game about a snail in the post-apocalypse. In China, this game holds the second place in popularity in its genre.