Ubisoft is not afraid of the anger of gamers. The company gave the go-ahead to add loot boxes to Ghost Recon: Wildlands. They will appear in the shooter until the end of January.

The Unity team wants it to be easier for developers to work with the engine. This is hinted at by the Unity Hub release. The tool allows you to select the version of the engine to work with.

SuperData adjusted the market figures for last December. It turned out to be fruitful. Gamers spent $10 billion on games.

The developers of the popular online action game PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have promised to send donations totaling $2 million to various charitable organizations by the end of 2018.

The Project Horseshoe research group presented a report on the ethical side of video game monetization. The researchers have prepared a set of recommendations, following which developers will be able to make money on users without tricks and deception.

At White Nights in Prague, one of the guests will be Jefferson Valadares, CEO of Bandai Namco in the USA. We suggest coming up with a question for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

Wanted: senior server programmer in the former Moscow office of Glu Mobile, head of marketing analytics at Game Insight and head of the traffic buying team at Wargaming.

The gaming blockchain platform of PHRI graduates sold $1.3 million worth of tokens in a month. Its authors, who are not yet thirty, are sure that in the next six months the figure will be much higher.

The Indian mobile publishing house Nazara Technologies continues to buy up local companies. The next acquisition of Nazara was the esports company Nodwin Gaming.

Is the subscription the future? Xbox Game Pass subscription holders will be able to play not only the old multiplatform titles in the near future, but also the latest exclusives from Microsoft Studios, starting from the day of their release.

The creators of the “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have announced the expansion of the development team of their game project. Next month, a division of PUBG Corp. South Korean publisher Bluehole will open an office in Amsterdam.

Epic Games has acquired Cloudgine, a Scottish company that develops video games using cloud technologies and VR support, for an unspecified amount.

Game designer and one of the creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Yuji Naka has moved to Square Enix. Naka announced this on his Twitter.

In the United States, three members of the Washington State Senate sent a request to the local Gambling Commission (WSGC) demanding to investigate whether loot boxes in video games violate state laws.

Blockchain technology can replace existing solutions in the field of DRM (technical means for copyright protection), according to the founder of Interplay and inXile Entertainment studios, Brian Fargo.

Finnish studio Polka Dot Studio has received $ 650 thousand of investment to develop mobile games dedicated to women’s fashion and lifestyle. The main part of the amount was contributed by the former top manager of Rovio, the famous “Mighty Eagle” Peter Vesterbacka.

Switch — the new indie patrimony? The role-playing simulator of the Stardew Valley farm last year overtook all other titles that came out in numbers on the Nintendo Switch in terms of downloads. It didn’t hurt that the game was released three months before the end of the year.

The pace of initial sales of the Nintendo Switch in the first 10 months made it the fastest-selling home gaming system in the United States, according to Nintendo.

The organizers of White Nights Prague 2018 have published the jury of the Indie Game Cup. It includes representatives of three game engines, as well as the authors of Horizon and World of Tanks.