After eight years of development, the Turkish game Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord was released for early access. The project was expected. On the first day, the number of users in the game at the same time reached 161 thousand. And the figure is growing.

After six years of development and three years of operation, Linden Lab decided to abandon the further development of Sansar, a UGC platform for virtual communication.

Founded by Chris Roberts, the Cloud Imperium studio continues to raise money for the development of the MMO cosmosim Star Citizen and its singleplayer offshoot.

All the gaming deals for the past week in one material.

There are more pitfalls in the Chinese market than is commonly believed. This was recently confirmed by the Japanese publisher Capcom, whose demo versionResident Evil 3 has angered some Chinese players.

About 80 people were constantly working on the game. This is twice as much as it worked on Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 at the same time.

Due to the threat of coronavirus, the gaming industry is switching to remote work. The current conditions require new solutions. One of them in April will offer

China’s Leyou Technologies reported for 2019. The most interesting thing in the report is the Warframe indicators. During the year, the popular game lost 12.2% of revenue, but attracted 9.3 million players.

Unity takes up work on the bugs. This year, she plans to optimize the engine, fix bugs, improve 2D tools and the asset editor, and develop a workflow with separate tabs. The team listed these and other innovations in a roadmap released in video and text format.

Tencent and Huawei are working together on a new cloud service. The platform itself is from Tencent (it’s called GameMatrix). Computing power — from Huawei.

The share of hyper-casual games in mobile tops is growing from year to year. Sensor Tower came to this conclusion. She also named the most downloaded hyper-casuals of last year.

Advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) for those in home quarantine. The organization suggests remembering active video games: fitness games for Switch (like Ring Fit Adventure) and Wii, Kinect-enabled projects and other similar titles.

Conflict between Wargaming and the studio Blitz Team founded by its former employees is heating up. Wargaming claims that it paid the future founders of the Blitz Team, when they were still employees of the “tank” company, more than $ 10 million. Moreover, it is alleged that a non-competition agreement was concluded. The director of the Blitz Team denies both the first and the second.

The coronavirus forced Apple to make allowances for iOS developers. They were given more time to migrate applications to the current iOS 13 SDK.

The authors of Homescapes announced material support for the Russian and Ukrainian regions in the fight against coronavirus. Playrix will allocate several grants for the purchase of medical equipment in hospitals.

Belka Games, following other gaming companies, is donating to the fight against COVID-19. The Belarusian studio will transfer $50 thousand to the Minsk City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital. As reported in the press release, the money will go to protective clothing for staff, test systems and much more.

Today, March 26, Epic Games announced a new initiative. It’s called Epic Games Publishing. Within its framework, the company is going to independently bring third-party games to the market. Among the first partners: genDESIGN, Playdead and Remedy Entertainment.

Quarantine for coronavirus has allowed to increase the metrics of many games. Brawl Stars are among them. Over the past week, her installations and revenue have grown noticeably.

The authors Max Payne and Control — the Finnish studio Remedy — signed a contract with a new publisher. It became Epic Games. The companies have agreed to work together on two yet-to-be-announced games for PC and next-generation consoles.