Tencent has abandoned NFT functions on the Tencent News platform, Blue Whale Finance reports. This became known after the holding, together with 30 other Chinese companies, promised to stop secondary trading in non-interchangeable tokens.

Japanese company Dynamo Pictures, engaged in computer graphics, will soon become part of Nintendo. After that, it will be called Nintendo Pictures and will focus on developing “visual content” for the Nintendo franchises.

After Twitch refused to delete illegal information, Roskomnadzor ordered search engines to mark the platform as a violator of Russian laws. The agency says that the requirement will be canceled as soon as Twitch corrects itself and removes all unnecessary.

Huawei has decided to modify the AppGallery app store. According to a number of media reports, the company is going to launch a system that will itself set an age rating for products.

The industrial giant Tencent has stopped aggressively buying up companies and shares in them against the background of the toughened position of the Chinese authorities, writes the SCMP business portal. In January-June, the holding made only 32 transactions — in the first half of 2021 there were 129 of them.

Today, July 14, the series Resident Evil premiered on Netflix. In honor of this, Capcom decided to talk about the excellent sales of the Resident Evil 2 remake — more than 10 million copies since its release in January 2019.

Unity investors did not appreciate the news about the upcoming merger with ironSource. During the day, the company’s stock price decreased by 17.39% to $32.82 apiece and continued to fall after the exchange closed.

The analytical company YouGov, with the support of Globant, decided to find out what Americans think about the metaverse. She interviewed a thousand gamers from the United States aged 18 and older who spend more than three hours a week playing games.

Naughty Dog has been criticized more than once for reworking, but it seems that the creation of the remake of The Last of Us did without them. At least, this was stated by Anthony Vaccaro, the chief environment artist.

On July 6, the WN Gaming business Conference ended in St. Petersburg. After attending the event, the editor–in-chief App2Top.ru he shared his thoughts on the state of the domestic game development.

Yesterday, for the third time after a prolonged “freeze”, the Chinese authorities published a list of games that are allowed to be published in the country. Against this background, the shares of local gaming companies went up. Even those whose projects have not received a license.

Israeli ironSource will soon merge with Unity. The companies are preparing for a merger that will allow them to create a “unique end-to-end platform for the development, publication, support and monetization” of products.

Bandai Namco‘s internal network was indeed hacked. The Japanese publisher admitted in a statement to the media that hackers were able to get into the company’s system. It is still unclear for sure what information the attackers got hold of, but Bandai Namco does not exclude that there are personal data of users among the stolen.

Capcom continues to brag about the success of the Sunbreak add-on for Monster Hunter: Rise. The company announced that it took him two weeks to sell over 3 million copies.

The release of God of War on Sony consoles took place back in 2018, but the title appeared on PC only this January. Thanks to this, the former PlayStation exclusive was able to break into the top of the highest-rated games released on Steam in 2022.

Despite the ban on publishing games in China without a license, some developers are still trying to do it. The other day, the Shanghai authorities reported that they issued a fine for a total of 1.1 million ($ 165 thousand) to studios that decided to circumvent the restriction.

In the first half of 2022, Twitter users wrote more about video games than ever before. By the end of June, they had left a record 1.5 billion tweets, which is 36% more than in the first half of last year. Such statistics were shared by Twitter itself.

Japanese game designer Tomonobu Itagaki will develop AAA-level blockchain games. He founded a studio called Apex Game Studios and has already announced the first project.

The Spotify music service has made its first gaming purchase. He acquired Heardle, a puzzle inspired by the acclaimed word game Wordle. In it, you have to guess the song by the initial notes from six attempts.