The server capacity of 1047 Games is not enough to cope with all the players who decided to enter the beta version of its multiplayer shooter Splitgate. To solve the problem, the studio raised $ 10 million from investors and postponed the release of the game until August.

Activision Blizzard employees condemned the management’s inaction and unwillingness to fully acknowledge the problems with harassment and harassment of women at work. Hundreds of people signed a letter demanding to bring the perpetrators to justice and carry out reforms within the company.The full text of the appeal was published on July 26 on the Bloomberg website.

Mobile developer Jam City, known for the game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, will not enter the stock market. A merger with the SPAC firm DPCM Capital was supposed to help him become a public company, but the deal had to be terminated.

The Chinese authorities require developers to indicate with what probability items fall out of the loot boxes. But as it turned out, not all game authors fully comply with this requirement. And while some developers carefully hide information from gamers, others completely ignore the law.

Until today, the exact number of copies of Death Stranding sold remained unknown. On the eve of the release of the expanded version, Kojima Productions decided to share official data. Since its release, the game has sold over 5 million copies on PS4 and PC, which can be considered a good result.About this in an interview with GamesIndustry.

Facebook still managed to launch its cloud gaming service on iOS. Due to Apple restrictions, it still cannot be accessed through the App Store. Instead, users will have to run the games in a separate web application.Facebook’s cloud gaming service will run on iOS as a progressive web application (PWA).

PUBG developers decided to follow in the footsteps of CD PROJEKT and create a “Korean The Witcher“. This is how Krafton described a new project that will be based on the series of Korean fantasy novels “The Bird that Drinks Tears”.

Over the weekend, a scandal related to Activision Blizzard’s accusations of discrimination against women developed. Mike Morhaime, one of the founders and former head of Blizzard, spoke about the problem. Some employees stopped working on World of Warcraft in protest, and a number of media outlets announced a boycott of the company.

The analytical company Newzoo has published an analysis of the mobile market of Saudi Arabia. It contains the gaming demographics of the country, the payment habits of local gamers and the most popular genres.

Odnoklassniki launched the direction of hyper-casual games. Developers of such projects will not only be able to launch their games on the social network, but will also receive additional opportunities for monetization.A separate section with hyper-casual games appeared on the Odnoklassniki game showcase.

New World is leading the Steam bestseller chart this week. Thanks to various publications, pre-orders of MMORPG from Amazon Games took the first two lines in the rating at once.

In 2019, a gaming company with Russian roots Panoramik received investments from Playrix. This helped to significantly improve the financial performance of the studio. Today it became known that since the beginning of 2020, Panoramik’s profitability has increased 10 times.Mighty Party: Heroes Clash

The conflict between Epic Games and Google continues to develop. Fortnite developers have updated their lawsuit against the corporation, adding several new proofs of Google’s monopolistic behavior.

The lack of large offline tournaments has not prevented the growth of esports. According to analysts from Niko Partners, last year the turnover of this market amounted to almost $ 1 billion. At the same time, more than half of all revenue came from Asian countries.Key data from the report

Unity has announced the purchase of Interactive Data Visualization. The company is best known for the SpeedTree package, with which developers can simulate plants and the environment. The size of the transaction is not disclosed.

On July 22, Electronic Arts held a presentation of EA Play Live. It also showed a sandbox mode for Battlefield 2042 and announced a remake of Dead Space. We tell you how the stock market and the gaming community reacted to the event.

Fans of World of Warcraft decided to draw attention to the accusations against Activision Blizzard related to discrimination against women and harassment at work. To do this, they staged a protest right in the game and demanded that all references to the former creative director be removed from it.The online action was organized by the guild Fence Macabre, according to the publication Polygon.

The launch of Warcraft III: Reforged turned into a failure, and the game itself has not yet been brought into an acceptable state. An investigation has been released today, which sheds light on the development problems and the causes of their occurrence. Activision played an important role in this, which changed Blizzard’s internal culture and began allocating money only for potential hits.Jason Schreier published a big investigation on Bloomberg.

Microsoft has decided to share its game development kit. The company published it for free on GitHub, but with the condition that you can use it without a license only for studying.