The rumors were confirmed. Fortnite will indeed add a monthly subscription, which will include game currency and other bonuses. But it will be possible to link it to only one platform.

Now the Chinese gaming industry is dominated by Tencent and NetEase. However, now ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched its own store and plans to compete with them by independently developing and releasing projects.Own store and publishing house

The other day, the social networks “Odnoklassniki“, “VKontakte” and “My World” summed up the results of the Games Cup 2020, a tournament between developers of HTML5 games. Out of 150 applications, the organizers selected 8 winning games. A prize fund of 2 million rubles was distributed among them.

Apple has posted the schedule of its Christmas weekend. During them, the App Store will not accept applications for publishing and updating applications.

Wanted: technical UI artist at RJ Games, game designer at Zagrava and programmer of C++ game logic at Targem Games.

A table of several dozen materials on marketing and working with the community appeared on the web. The list was compiled by Victoria Tran, community director of InnerSloth.Victoria shared a link to the table on her Twitter and noted that the list could be much larger.

Against the background of the global lockdown, people have become more interested in learning languages. So the Norwegian designer of educational tests Kahoot decided to invest in this area. The company announced the takeover of Drops, mobile developers from Estonia who make language games.

The Latvian Game Developers Association has prepared a report on the state of the local gaming industry for 2019. Over the past six years, it has grown several times, and last year its turnover exceeded €30 million for the first time.Basic data on the Latvian gaming industry for 2019

Genies, which specializes in creating 3D avatars, has attracted an additional investment of $3 million. She received this amount from Bandai Namco.Investments are needed for Genies to launch in the Asian market, VentureBeat reports.

Another game studio has appeared in Canada. Among its founders is Mike Laidlaw, who at one time served as creative director of the Dragon Age franchise (Bioware). He was also joined by three people from Ubisoft.

Starting next year, it will be impossible to sell equipment in Russia without pre-installed browsers, messengers, antiviruses and many other programs. Today, the government announced a list of applications and devices that fall under this law.The resolution, which appeared today on the legal information website, was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin.

Collaboration between musicians and developers is reaching a new level. Labels have moved from simply licensing songs to adding artists to games and other large-scale collaborations. Warner Music spoke about working with developers and explained why such cooperation is beneficial to both sides.

Next year G5 Games turns 20 years old. The company is approaching the anniversary at the peak of its form. In January-September of this year alone, she earned $117 million. We talked about how the company developed with its co-founder and permanent CEO Vlad Suglobov.

The Brazilian gaming market is thriving, which cannot be said about the gamers themselves. Last year, the players brought the country $1.6 billion. At the same time, most people can only afford mobile games, Newzoo analysts write.

New IP’s don’t often appear on Sony consoles. PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan explains this with one, but significant reason — it’s expensive.

SuperData analysts shared an overview of the digital gaming market for October. The most successful projects of the month were Genshin Impact, Watch Dogs: Legion and FIFA 21.

Electronic Arts has released a report on the company’s internal processes. Among other things, EA talked about the publisher’s annual revenue, employee benefits, recruitment, and her understanding of the gaming audience.

Google and Nvidia have announced that their cloud gaming services will appear on iOS in the form of web applications. At the same time, GeForce Now already works on Apple devices, and the company itself plans to release a special version of Fortnite adapted for control on smartphones.GeForce Now and Stadia decided to follow the path of Amazon’s Luna service, which appeared on iOS in the form of PWA, a progressive web application.

Last year, the revenue of the Singapore startup Habby grew 181 times, thanks to the success of the original Archero mobile game. The founders of the studio told Tech in Asia how experiments with genres and title monetization helped the company achieve explosive growth.