The websites of future sequels of System Shock have passed into the hands of Tencent. Perhaps the Chinese giant has invested in developer OtherSide Entertainment.

Indie sandbox Terraria flew into the top 5 most popular games in the history of Steam. The final DLC for the Re-Logic title attracted 485 thousand simultaneous users.

The Sunday Times has published an annual list of the richest Britons. Nine out of 1000 positions in it are for representatives of the game dev. Moreover, a third of the seats went to immigrants from King.

A trial is planned between the giants of the industry. Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google. The reason for the quarrel was the game released by the App Store and Google Play — allegedly plagiarism from Rainbow Six: Siege.

Talents in Games: HR Conference will be held on May 26. This online event is dedicated to working with human resources. HR specialists and heads of gaming companies will talk about internal training, adaptation, hairing and much more in game development.

The second nationwide competition of game developers for Unreal Engine 4 has started. Epic Games is holding it together with our colleagues from Disgusting Men. The winners are promised grants from $5,000 to $100,000.

Ubisoft is ready to expand further. The publisher is studying the M&A market and is looking for opportunities to take over gaming companies.

British Sumo Digital bought Lab42. It is a gaming outsourcer working closely with SEGA.

On May 20, a round table will be held on the WN Hub platform. It will be dedicated to the genre of tactical role-playing games: trends, new aspects of their game design, as well as the best representatives of this year’s direction.

Since the beginning of self-isolation, the spending of Russian gamers on games has increased by 22%. The turnover of IAP transactions also increased by 23%.

Keywords Studios group has conceived a massive purchase of gaming outsourcers affected by COVID-19. For this purpose, she needs to raise $122 million.

Digital Bros has high hopes for the PC version of Death Stranding. The publisher expects to earn over $53 million on it.

Russian startup Humanteq is preparing a small revolution in mobile marketing. The company offered audience segmentation by psychotype. The first cases show that with this approach, the cost of users is radically reduced.

The marketing company AppLovin has a fourth gaming deal since the beginning of 2020. Following investments in Redemption Games, Clipwire Games and Geewa, she announced the acquisition of Machine Zone, known for the strategy game Game of War.

In Finland, the Ministry of Games, a gaming startup that once raised $1.9 million, went bankrupt. The company managed to create four mobile games in five years.

On May 23, a free Unreal Meetup #2 developer meeting will be held on the WN Hub platform. There will be lectures on animation, narrative design, content management and prototyping.

Startup Ziva Dynamics has closed the seed round of financing. The authors of the tool for creating realistic characters raised $7 million.

Many gaming companies have increased revenue thanks to the pandemic. But the coronavirus can still negatively affect the gaming industry, according to the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer). This impact will become noticeable by March 2021.

Localization of the game is not only the translation of content into other languages, but also its integration into the product. Sometimes it takes no less time than working on the same text. How to make it so that the game can be easily and quickly localized for any market, — says the company Alconost.