The Chinese AAA game Black Myth: Wukong is still far from release, but local developers are already copying its visual style. They use someone else’s project to create misleading commercials for their mobile projects.

As expected, Blizzard did not show any new IP on BlizzConline. However, the company presented the trailer of the robber from Diablo IV, revealed the details of Overwatch 2, announced a remaster of Diablo II for PC and consoles, and one of the main curiosities was Twitch’s attempt to avoid the DMCA during Metallica’s performance.

Artie continues to develop a platform for instant games with support for not only JavaScript and HTML5, but also Unity. The startup has raised $10 million from investors, including the founders of Zynga and Shutterstock. The developers also plan to release the SDK.Investors include Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer, YouTube co—founder Chad Hurley, and Thirty Five Ventures, co-founded by basketball player Kevin Durant.

Valheim survival simulator continues to conquer the Steam charts. This time, the project entered the top hundred of the highest-rated games of the service. All this against the background of sales of three million copies of the title.

Today it is difficult to satisfy the personnel hunger of domestic gaming companies. Their global success requires significant scaling, which is impossible if only specialists from game dev are involved.

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Ivan Nikitin, the product manager at Sensorium Galaxy.

American Bungie decided to expand. The company plans to build a large new headquarters, open its first foreign division and engage in games not only on Destiny.

Producer Egor Vasiliev wrote a lot of material about the experience of cloning a game in the genre of “spot the difference”. He talked about budgets, difficulties during development, softlonch, release and first results.

We have prepared a video in which we talk about the brightest upcoming releases from domestic developers on “big” platforms.

On the night of February 17-18, for the first time in a long time, Nintendo held a large-scale broadcast of Nintendo Direct. The show was held in the already standard online format and gathered about three million people at the screens at the same time. We have chosen the main thing from the reviews of players and industry experts.

Tonight, Playrix and Zemfira presented an unexpected collaboration. The singer, who rarely releases new material, has published a new track and video “Austin”. It is dedicated to the eponymous butler from the game Homescapes.

The MY.GAMES brand conducted a large-scale study and studied the mental health of users of online games. It turned out that Russian gamers began to feel much better during the pandemic. In part, video games helped them in this — with their help, every third person did not notice the lack of live communication.

This year, the Clash Royale League tournament has undergone significant changes, abandoning team competitions. This forced the esports organization Team Liquid to disband its membership in the game and switch attention to content creation.Team Liquid told about this on its official website.

In early February, Google decided to close the internal development studios of Stadia, but their employees did not know anything about the company’s intentions. Just a few days before, the management praised them for their progress and promised to share their plans for 2021.This was reported by Kotaku with reference to four sources familiar with the situation.

Microsoft has updated guidelines that will help developers make games more accessible to people with disabilities. Studios will be able to submit their projects for PC and Xbox for review and receive feedback on their improvement.This was stated in the official Xbox blog by senior project manager Brannon Zahand (Brannon Zahand).

The other day, the famous indie activist Rami Ismail wrote a big Twitter thread criticizing the shooter Six Days in Fallujah about the war in Iraq. Last night, the developer’s account was deleted from the social network.

Saudi authorities are paying more and more attention to video games. In the fourth quarter, the state-owned Public Investment Fund invested over $3.3 billion in the gaming industry. However, only three companies got the money.

Today, on February 17, the Liftoff platform announced the launch of the Post-IDFA Alliance. This is a coalition of services and platforms that is designed to solve the problems associated with the restriction of IDFA by Apple. The association includes, in addition to Liftoff, companies such as Fyber, Chartboost, InMobi, Vungle and Singular.

Indie artist and developer George Zarkua wrote a big thread on his Twitter page about the structure of the hyper-casual games market. He spoke about the history and development of the genre, relations with publishers, filling the market with money and the trend towards wholesale borrowing of other people’s ideas. We share material based on motives.