A nostalgic journey through the history of game design has begun: the famous developer Sid Meier has published his memoirs. Under the cover is the forty-year career of the creator of Civilization, reflections on the creative process and the legendary rules of game development.

Streets of Rage 4, which revived the popular beat ’em up of the 90s, received the first big update. At the same time, the publisher and developer Dotemu reported 1.5 million downloads since the release date.Such figures look impressive for a new game in the series, the last part of which was released 26 years ago.

The artists told the 80 LEVEL portal about their impressions of Blender 2.9. We selected the main points from the opinions of professionals and their forecasts about whether the new version of the program will become a standard for the gaming industry.Blender is still great for indie

Last Friday, Epic Games sent a new petition regarding Apple to the court. In it, the company challenges the decision of the “apple” company to remove Fortnite from the App Store during the proceedings.

The era of stereotypical “manly” games may give way to the era of women’s games. At least in China. The material on this topic was shared by Abacus.

Russian parliamentarians continue to attack Apple. Today it became known that Anton Gorelkin, a deputy from the United Russia party, initiated an inspection of the Apple company by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). He believes that domestic teams have difficulty accessing App Store tools.

Last month, many employees of the Lab Zero Games studio left the company after its founder was accused of harassment. Now the developer has fired the rest of the team and has not yet paid them compensation.Animator Jonathan Kim, who worked on Indivisible and Skullgirls, told about the dissolution of the Lab Zero Games team.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games Voodoo has increased its presence in the Turkish market. He invested in Fabrika Games studio. The companies will work together on new games and explore the possibilities of the country’s gaming market.

Now Xbox One remains the only console where you need to pay to play freeplay titles. If the disadvantages for gamers are obvious, then what is the benefit of such a policy for Microsoft and will they be able to abandon it in the future?Kotaku drew attention to this problem after the developers of Rocket League announced the transition to frituplay.

By the end of August App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Microsoft has reported on the success of Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project has already attracted more than 1 million players — this is the best start in the entire 38-year history of the series. However, record numbers will not necessarily correlate with sales.In its blog, the company announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator showed the best start among all games for Xbox Games Pass on PC.

In December 2019, Alawar was headed by its co-founder Sergey Zanin. We talked with him about the early years of the company, about how it grew. They also touched upon the challenges that Alawar faced, discussed the situation around Stargaze and plans for the future.

Apple has problems in Japan. Dozens of local developers have criticized the working conditions with the App Store — and it’s not about the 30% commission. Now the company from Cupertino will also be checked by the Japanese Antimonopoly Commission.The Bloomberg edition summarized the main dissatisfactions of the App Store from local developers.

Nintendo is releasing a new retro console in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. franchise. It’s about the replica Game & Watch.

Polish CD Projekt has prepared a report for the first half of 2020. The company increased revenue by 69% thanks to sales of The Witcher 3 on the Nintendo Switch, GWENT on iOS and demand for Cyberpunk 2077 merch. The release of the latest title is still planned for November.

Advertising companies and application developers took a deep breath. Apple has said it will not introduce new data privacy rules this year.

A new Newzoo study has shown the dynamics of the cloud gaming market. It is assumed that by the end of this year, revenue from such services will reach half a billion dollars. At the same time, this area still has a lot of problems that companies have yet to solve.General data and forecasts

The analytical company DFC Intelligence has calculated how COVID-19 has affected the industry. This time, the focus is on console game publishers. Spoiler: companies have record growth for the fifth year in a row.

Developers from the Thunder Lotus studio, who released the “cozy death game” Spiritfarer, were criticized online and forced to apologize. Users felt that the storyline of one of the characters offends people with disabilities.