A month after the announcement, the Luna cloud gaming service became available to a limited number of users. So far, you can enter the platform only by invitation, and play only in the titles of the main channel.

The creators of the Dragonlance universe sued Wizards of the Coast, which suddenly canceled the release of their several new books. The authors want to recover over $10 million from the company and believe that the termination of the contract is connected with racist scandals around the publisher.Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss, 2008

Since the beginning of the protests, about 1,200 IT specialists have moved from Belarus to Ukraine. Another 800 left for Poland. And this flow is growing. Sergey Bruy, co-founder and managing director of the Belarusian Vizor Games, believes that “the picture is sad“, but additional challenges can benefit Belarusians.

The new Oculus Quest 2 VR headset does not support games for Oculus Go. We are talking about 66 titles, some of which were significant for the platform. For example, Land’s End from Ustwo Games.

Yesterday, there was widespread talk in the Russian-speaking environment about changes in Apple’s rules concerning the image of weapons in games. The company made a number of clarifications back in September 2019, but until recently they did not receive proper publicity.Now on the Apple website there is a detailed list of criteria for the image of firearms in the materials of games in the App Store.

The marketing company Adjust has launched a new analytical tool — Subscription Tracking. It shows statistics on the actions of users of mobile subscription services.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is not sure that the company should maintain a partnership with Nintendo. The placement of titles on the Switch console is under threat. But things could still change if a Japanese corporation agrees to support the Xbox Game Pass.

Young American politicians are using video games to attract new voters. So far, it is not massive, but yesterday Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) decided to play Among Us. In a matter of hours, more than 100 thousand people subscribed to her Twitch.”Would anyone like to play Among Us with me on Twitch to encourage people to vote (I’ve never played it, but it seems to be a lot of fun),” wrote 31-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, a…

The co-founder of Valve claims that due to remote work, the company’s productivity has fallen to 50-75%. As a solution to the problem, he considers the relocation of developers to New Zealand, where the strictest quarantine measures almost coped with COVID-19.

The developers of the NBA 2K21 basketball simulator found themselves in the center of a new scandal. The game, which is sold for full price, has promotional video inserts during downloads. You can’t skip them or disable them in the settings.

In the USA, revenue from sales of video games, hardware and accessories continues to grow. Last month, the market turnover amounted to $4.3 billion — a billion more than in August.

After Sony denied the creator of Return of the Obra Dinn the right to introduce a temporary discount, attention was drawn to the problem on English-language forums and social networks. It turned out that this is not the first time the company does not allow indie developers to arrange sales.Lucas Pope, the creator of the detective indie game Return of the Obra Dine, decided to arrange a sale in honor of the two-year anniversary of…

Gaming companies continue to enter the stock market. The next in line is the developer of social casinos Playtika. In its press release, the company announced the launch of the IPO procedure.

Apple has changed the rules regarding pre-orders in the App Store. Now developers will be able to offer users to download applications 180 days before the release.The company announced this in its blog for developers.

Not only hyper-casual can achieve a low CPI. Marketing company Soomla told about five mobile games in which the cost per installation is less than $ 0.5.

Phil Spencer, answering the question of whether it would be possible to recoup the $7.5 billion investment without selling Elders Scrolls VI on PlayStation, clearly said: “Yes.” At the same time, the head of the Xbox brand gave several clarifications about the possible multiplatform policy of the company.The issue of the release of new projects by Bethesda, id Software, Arkane and other studios outside Microsoft platforms has been worrying players since September.

On October 28, the SHAREit technology platform will hold a closed seminar on “How to achieve rapid growth in emerging markets with the help of SHAREit, an exclusive partner of Google Play.”The event will be held from 11:00 to 12:30 Moscow time as part of the WN Fall’20 conference.

According to the results of the third quarter, Google became the largest mobile publisher in the world by the number of installations. This is reported by Sensor Tower in a new report. Facebook, Voodoo and ByteDance were also in the lead.Sensor Tower collected data for the period from July 1 to September 30, 2020.

Almost a third of gamers have a subscription to platforms with games. Moreover, 80% of them would like to use several subscription services at once. Such data was shared in a recent report by Simon-Kucher & Partners.