Apple will not receive compensation and fines from Epic Games. A federal judge found the claims of an American corporation groundless.

After two years of development, a new project by Nekki and Banzai Games, the mobile fighting game Shadow Fight Arena, has been released worldwide. We talked to the founders of the companies about how the game was being developed and why it is their first major step towards consoles and multiplatform.

Epic Games conducted a survey among Fortnite users to find out their opinion about the introduction of a monthly subscription to the game. This was told by a FireMonkey user who specializes in Fortnite news and drains.

Wanted: a game designer at Deus Craft, a project manager at Playrix, a senior programmer at Unity and C# at 2Reallife and a partner manager at WN Media Group.

The Grounded survival simulator has a new achievement — 5 million people entered the game in a little more than three months. At the same time, Obsidian Entertainment released the largest update for the title. Now players will be able to fight for life in a pond with koi carp.

The increase in base prices for games is one of the most discussed topics at the launch of a new generation of consoles. According to Bloomberg, Sony wanted to raise the price above the stated $70, and taking into account inflation, prices this year could even exceed $ 100.This year, several major publishers, including Take-Two and Sony, announced an increase in prices for individual games to $70.

Why gaming companies go on the stock exchange, does it really force them to treat their employees worse, and why some choose European markets for the placement of shares, while others choose American ones — Dmitry Burkovsky, Chief Investment Officer at Xsolla, talked about these and other topics.

Venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners has raised $235 million. The fund will invest half of this money in development studios, and the other half in gaming platforms and infrastructure. AAA projects will be bypassed by investors.

Among Us continues to lead the mobile charts and has already brought developers tens of millions of dollars. To date, the iOS and Android version of the game has been downloaded more than 200 million times.Sensor Tower reported that Among Us became the most downloaded mobile game in October with a result of 75 million downloads (according to AppMagic, the figure is higher).

Take-Two plans to complete the purchase of Codemasters early next year. As a result, she will receive 100% of the shares of DiRT developers, and the transaction amount will exceed $ 950 million.Both companies came to an agreement and confirmed the deal in official statements.

Belarusian-British Gismart has announced the launch of a new direction. Along with music apps and hyper-casual products, the company will be engaged in just casual games.

Over the past couple of weeks, the attitude of many players to Genshin Impact has changed a lot. Now users are actively criticizing the game. They are dissatisfied with the gacha mechanics, which they initially perceived as optional. One popular YouTuber decided to delete all the videos where he used the local donation system.Why are streamers and players unhappy?

After Pfizer announced the successful testing of a coronavirus vaccine, shares of gaming companies went down massively. The “lucky ones” included Take-Two, Unity, Ubisoft, CD Projekt and many others.

Microsoft‘s next-generation consoles have appeared on store shelves (including Russian ones). The miniature Xbox Series S costs an average of 26,990 rubles, and its older version Xbox Series X — 45,590 rubles.

A drama is unfolding in the Japanese market. Sony is unhappy with PS4 sales in Japan and is focusing on the American market. At the same time, Microsoft is interested in local development studios and plans to make Xbox the second console in the market of the “land of the rising sun”.

By the end of October App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Glu Mobile reported results for the third fiscal quarter of 2020 (ended September 30). The company not only showed record revenue, but also managed to finish the period with a profit.Overall figures for the third quarter

Despite a good start, Marvel’s Avengers turned out to have a short tail of sales. Because of this, Square Enix‘s gaming division went into negative territory at the end of the last quarter.

It is still unclear which programs and how they should be installed on the devices.