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Starting this Sunday, TikTok and WeChat will be withdrawn from the US App Store and Google Play.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.

The Finnish Supercell hits factory has made a major investment. She became an investor in the young indie studio Metacore (formerly Everywear Games), which has just released the game Merge Mansion. This is a project that resembles Homescapes in its core, but at the same time differs in the original match mechanics. In total, Supercell invested $29.4 million in the team.

Stillfront Group continues to buy studios. This time, a Swedish company is investing in a mobile developer from Croatia, Nanobit. The maximum value of the transaction can reach $148 million.

Recently, the Russian startup Just AI released a visual quest Lovecraft World. It is controlled by voice — the project is designed for smart screens, which are the successors of smart speakers. We considered this a good reason to talk a little about the specifics of the market of such games and its prospects with Anna Vyugina, one of the company’s leaders.

The console market in Russia continues to grow. In the period from January to mid-September, 435 thousand consoles worth 7.9 billion rubles were sold. The growth was 15% in monetary terms and 17% in quantitative terms compared to last year.This was announced by the group of companies “M.

Yesterday’s Facebook Connect conference was not limited to the announcement of Oculus Quest 2 VR glasses. Another news is that in a year and a half, the Oculus Quest library has accumulated several dozen projects that have earned from a million dollars or more.

In a new study, Newzoo analyzed the explosive growth of Fall Guys. Among the key success factors are an agreement with Sony, promotion through streamers, viral marketing and working with the community.The developers of Fall Guys used a set of marketing tools aimed at the rapid growth of the audience and its further retention — the so-called growth hacking.

For the first time since 1989, Nintendo will release only one type of console at a time. The Japanese finished production of all 3DS models and focused exclusively on the Switch.