The authors of the Core game creation platform have raised $15 million in a new round of funding. Epic Games became the leader of the round. According to the companies, they want to jointly create an “infinite gaming metaverse”.

The influence of the Steam algorithm on the sales and popularity of games periodically causes controversy among developers. Former game designer Simon Carless analyzed the mechanisms of his work, based on direct comments from Valve employees.He was contacted by investor Jason Della Rocca, who recently spoke with Valve about Steam.

A new gaming unicorn has appeared in the industry — Playco. It was launched by Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron and one of the creators of the HTML5 websocket Michael Carter. The company will be engaged in instant social games, “which will be played by billions of people.”

Voodoo has won in court over competitors from Rollic, which are owned by Zynga. The French publisher accused the company of plagiarism and now hopes that this case will set a precedent in the field of hyper-casual games.Voodoo sued after Hero Games studio released an update for the Wood Shop game (Rollic is the publisher).

The developer and publisher of mobile games Scopely is negotiating a new round of financing. The company is going to raise $200 million. As part of the transaction, the total value of the company “on paper” will be $3 billion.

Part of the team that worked on the Skullgirls fighting game has merged into a new studio. This happened after their former boss and founder of Lab Zero Games was accused of harassment and fired all employees.The new Future Club studio has a cooperative structure.

Japanese mobile game developer GREE has won a court case against the Finnish giant Supercell. The creators of Clash Royale were found guilty of violating several patents and ordered to pay $8.5 million.Court verdict

The main deal of this fall. Microsoft Corporation has announced the takeover of the gaming concern ZeniMax Media. The company will cost the owner of Windows and Xbox $ 7.5 billion.

While TikTok‘s owners are selling the American part of the business, Tencent may temporarily stop worrying about the fate of WeChat. A federal judge in the United States temporarily blocked the decision of President Donald Trump to remove this social network from stores.

Supergiant Games reported that their game Hades has surpassed the mark of 1 million copies sold. The project went out of early access just four days ago, and this short period accounted for 30% of all sales.Information about the achievement appeared on the company’s Twitter.

Three days ago, Unity entered the stock exchange, where it raised $1.3 billion in a day. Against this background, the developer’s market capitalization has grown to $18.1 billion. Moreover, a week before the start of trading, Unity announced plans to raise the company’s valuation to just $9-11.1 billion.

Now HTML5 games in China are experiencing a new wave of popularity. The revenue growth of mini-applications in WeChat over the past six months amounted to 18%. Local publisher Yodo1 spoke about the advantages and prospects of the platform for third-party developers.Yodo1’s material is based on a speech by Li Qing, a product manager at WeChat, who shared information about the growth in the number of users and their gaming preferences inside the application.

A new twist in the TikTok case. President Donald Trump has agreed to a deal between Chinese ByteDance and American Oracle and Walmart. Now the owners of the application will create a company TikTok Global with headquarters in the United States, which is tentatively estimated at $ 20-50 billion.

What should be understood by loot in games, what functions are assigned to it and what types it is divided into,” says Owlcat Games game designer Yulia Chernenko.

On September 16, the world release of the new version of iOS took place. The way it went, caused dissatisfaction among some developers. Apple didn’t give much time to prepare for the new mobile OS.

Starting this Sunday, TikTok and WeChat will be withdrawn from the US App Store and Google Play. Washington has begun implementing the orders of President Donald Trump.

Bandai Namco intends to expand through the purchase of Western developers. The Japanese company announced the acquisition of the studio Reflector Entertainment, co-founded by the former creative director of Assassin’s Creed. She is currently developing her first game Unknown 9: Awakening.

Wanted: Art Director at Kefir, VFX artist at Plarium and lead project manager at FrostGate Studio.

The US government has requested information about security protocols from American gaming companies whose stakes belong to Tencent. Among them are Riot Games and Epic Games.