Among Us attracts not only the attention of gamers, but also the authorities. In Kazakhstan, a security check of the game was carried out after messages appeared in parental WhatsApp chats that the InnerSloth project allegedly leads to suicides.

Square Enix will launch a special program that will allow you to transfer most of the employees to permanent remote work without loss of efficiency. The company plans to adapt to the realities of the “new world” and make remote access a new standard.The Japanese publisher will divide all employees into remote (at least three times a week they work from home) and office (at least three times a week they work from the office).

The announcement of Talents in Games, a free online event for gaming specialists, took place. Among the speakers are Zynga and Versus.Evil. The start of the event is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Another studio attracted investment from Supercell. The Finnish giant has invested $2.8 million in startup 2UP Games, which is working on a cooperative game for mobile platforms.

The Remnant: From the Ashes action has performed well in sales. The total circulation of the project with a procedurally generated world exceeded 2.5 million copies worldwide.The results were announced by the publisher Perfect World.

A new free LDtk level editor has appeared on the web. Its author is the creator of Dead Cells. The project is open source and is aimed primarily at indie developers.Attention to LDtk was recently drawn to the publication 80 Level, and for the first time the developer presented his project back in September.

Bossa Studios will cut 15% of its staff during the restructuring. The company explains this by the need to adapt to the recent trends in the industry. At the same time, over the past few months, almost a quarter of the employees have already left the studio.

At the end of October, Belarusian Vizor Games released a new major project — Atlantis Odyssey. According to AppMagic, by the end of November, the game can reach revenue of a million dollars without advertising. We talked about the project and its development with the leading game designer of the project Ilya Marchenko.

How to improve the position of a mobile game in the App Store and Google Play search using ASOdesk tools, — says Sergey Sharov, founder of the ASOdesk platform and the Angle Connect agency.

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.