Thunderful Holding continues to expand its portfolio. This time the company bought the Swedish studio Station Interactive together with all its assets and intellectual property.

The package of measures that should help the Russian gaming industry raises questions for two reasons. First, there is no original document in the public domain. The available formulations are complex and contradictory. Secondly, if you dig into them, then the main and obvious beneficiary in them looks like Mail.Ru Group.

The analytical company App Annie has published a forecast for 2021. The total turnover of the mobile gaming market will exceed $120 billion, and hybrid genres will become the main trend.Hunter Assassin

The developers of What Remains of Edith Finch have provided Epic Games with a large set of free assets. Now everyone can download and use more than 3000 items and models from the game.

Wargaming is expanding. The company announced the launch of a new office, which will be located in the capital of Lithuania — Vilnius. The division will open early next year.

The number of copies of Ghost of Tsushima sold exceeded 5 million. This allowed the game to gain a foothold in the status of the fastest selling new IP for PS4.Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, told about this on Twitter.

The Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a package of 88 measures that can help in the development of Russian IT. A separate block of measures is dedicated to the gaming industry.

2020 was a successful year, including for the mobile segment of the gaming industry. Sensor Tower analysts calculated the segment’s revenue and stated: in the first nine months of this year, it managed to earn $58.7 billion.

Electronic Arts has been accused of using dynamic complexity technology in its three major sports franchises since 2017. The class action lawsuit against the company states that in this way users are forced to buy loot boxes.The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Northern California, the newspaper reports Gamesindustry.biz .

The company Azur Games, which previously specialized exclusively in mobile titles, a week ago announced the launch of its first project on consoles — battle royale Axes.io . We talked with Dmitry Yaminsky, CEO of the company, about why the mobile publisher decided to go to consoles, and also whether he has ambitions to take this market seriously in general.

Unity Technologies reported quarterly revenue for the first time being in the status of a public company. In the third quarter of 2020, the company’s revenue jumped by 53% at once and reached an impressive $200.8 million.

PUBG Corp. I found a way to circumvent the ban on PUBG Mobile and return the game to the Indian market. To do this, the company will release a new version of the project with a number of special changes, as well as invest $ 100 million in local businesses.How does the company plan to circumvent the ban?

ByteDance has entered into negotiations with a group of investors to raise $2 billion.  According to Bloomberg, this will raise the total valuation of TikTok’s parent company to $180 billion.ByteDance wants to attract new investments before bringing some of its businesses to the Hong Kong stock market.

The connection between Google Stadia and YouTube has become even stronger. Now premium subscribers of the video hosting can get the Stadia Premiere Edition bundle for free — it includes a gamepad and a Chromecast Ultra streaming player. But the offer is temporary and does not work for all countries.

In two months after the release, Marvel’s Avengers lost almost the entire audience. The number of simultaneous players has dropped by 96%, and the average online now rarely exceeds 700 people.Last weekend, the maximum online Marvel’s Avengers on Steam was 1,190 players.

The PlayStation 5 was officially launched today, but only in some regions. Russia is not among them. Sales of the new generation console in our country and in the rest of the world will start in a week.

The Hitman franchise turns 20 this month. In honor of this event, IO Interactive said that the audience of Agent 47 games exceeded 70 million people.The developers told about this in their blog.

The earnings of the American gaming market have again updated the historical maximum. In the third quarter, US gamers spent $11.2 billion on games, hardware and accessories. One of the most popular purchases was the Nintendo Switch — in three months, players bought as many copies of the console as no other platform in the states has sold yet.

Nexon has reported on the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, which was a record for it. Mobile revenue of the South Korean publisher grew by 140%, and the former head of TikTok joined the company’s board of directors.Key results for the third quarter