In September, the fifth part of Gears of War will be released on Xbox One and PC (after rebranding just Gears). There will be no loot boxes or passes in the game. Its authors are going to earn inside the game differently.

The possible price for a subscription in the Apple Arcade service has been named. According to 9to5Mac, monthly access will cost the player $4.99.

In July, digital game sales reached $9.02 billion. This market grew by 5% year-on-year, despite the PC and console segments sagging for the third month in a row.

The audience of the Dauntless frituplein exceeded 14 million players. Moreover, 11 million joined it in less than three months.

The platform with adult games — Nutaku — has almost doubled in a year. Users have registered about 40 million accounts in it.

And a little more about the loot boxes. China is gradually introducing a daily limit on their purchase.

Last year, the Russian video game market earned $1.9 billion. At the same time, the film industry as a whole collected $0.7 billion.

The coveted title of the second largest geolocation game on iOS was unexpectedly snatched by Let’s Hunt Monsters from Tencent. Since April, the game has earned $50 million.

In the two years since the release, downloads of Last Day on Earth have reached the 130 million mark. Moreover, most of them — 80% — fell on Google Play.

Analytical company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a large-scale report on the Russian entertainment market. Special attention is devoted to the video game market.

Insomniac Games is now under the wing of Sony. The publisher announced the purchase of the authors of several exclusive games for his console.

Screenshots of the new Apple Arcade subscription service have leaked to the network. Recall that this is a future new section of the App Store with premium exclusives without ads and microtransactions.

The search giant is adopting Apple’s practice. Google Play also has a preliminary review of new applications. That’s just it doesn’t work well yet.

It seems that the loot boxes have seriously damaged the reputation of Apex Legends and Respawn personally. The studio was criticized for the fact that cosmetics in the new event fell out only from boxes with loot.

Only half of the population is familiar with video games in Russia. According to VTsIOM, 48% of Russians have never played on any devices, and 33% have abandoned this hobby.

Last week, two leading producers — old-timers of the studio – left BioWare at once. One of them was working on Anthem, the other was working on the future Dragon Age 4.

Crytivo is a young American indie publisher founded by a native of Turkmenistan. About the history of the company and what it is ready to offer developers today, we talked with its CEO Alexander Koshelkov.

Yesterday GTP Media announced the winners of the Indie Cup Summer’19 contest. The best PC game was This Land is My Land. The best among mobile games is Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery.

Epic Games opens a division in Cologne, Germany. The new studio will be headed by the founders of Factor 5, developers Turrican and Lair.