The Chinese giant Tencent does not stop investing in Western assets. This time the company became a minority owner of the French studio Dontnod Entertainment, known for the titles Vampyr, Twin Mirror and the franchise Life Is Strange.

ASOdesk has published a study on the design of game pages in the App Store and Google Play. In it, she told what techniques ASO marketers most often resort to when working on icons and screenshots.

Indie studio Scavengers Studio reacted to the scandalous investigation and accusations of harassment by its co-founder. As a result, Simon Darveau was suspended, and the company intends to conduct an internal audit.The studio made this decision during an emergency meeting.

IO Interactive reported on the first successes of Hitman 3. The completion of the new trilogy about Agent 47 became a hit and fully recouped the development costs in less than seven days.About this publication Gamesindustry.

A little more than a week remains before the WN Winter online conference. But even now, future participants of the event can use the appointment system and get acquainted with the schedule of performances.

Yesterday, the Moscow studio Mundfish attracted investments from three large companies at once: Tencent, Gaijin Entertainment and GEM Capital. Also, the authors of Atomic Heart are looking for new specialists to join their team.

We continue the mini-series of interviews within the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the game market. This time we had a conversation with Grzegorz Drabik, the head ofUntold Tales on business development.

While Apple is investing in virtual reality, Google is shutting down VR services. The company has announced that it will no longer officially support the Tilt Brush 3D drawing application. From now on, its source can be found on GitHub.

PlayStation is probably planning to actively develop the mobile direction and develop new games for it. This is also hinted at by the new vacancy of the European division of the company.Uncharted: Fortune Hunter

IO Interactive has revealed new details of the upcoming 007 agent game. This will be a completely original project, for which the studio will double its staff. Now the company employs 200 people.

Microsoft summed up the results of the second fiscal quarter (October-December 2020), noting growth in many indicators. The gaming division of the company was particularly successful — its revenue exceeded $5 billion for the first time.

A new player has appeared in the cloud gaming market. Plex has introduced the Plex Arcade service, which allows you to play retro games from arcade machines by subscription.

Flime is a young company developing instant and hyper-casual games from Belarus. In the two years since its foundation, together with Gismart, it has managed to mark five successful releases. Two of them have managed to get a total of 45 million downloads since August alone. We talked about their creation and internal processes with the co-founder of the company Artem Legonkov.

The Ninja streamer spoke about the downside of popularity to The New York Times. He was tired of trolling and attention-hungry children, spoke out on the topic of racism and explained why he does not stream with girls in principle.In an interview with The New York Times, Tyler Blevins admits that he did not expect a warm welcome after returning to Twitch.

The Deep Rock Galactic cooperative shooter was released from early access last year, and since then the popularity of the game has only been growing. Ghost Ship Games studio reported 2 million copies sold and a MAU of 310 thousand people.The developers shared this information on their official Steam blog.

Xsolla has introduced a service for mobile developers. It’s called Mobile Game Commerce. Users of this service will be able to create their own cross—platform stores (and games), and gamers will be able to choose where it is better for them to run titles: on a PC, in browsers or on a smartphone.

Indie studio Scavengers Studio, responsible for the Darwin Project and Season, was at the center of the scandal. Employees told about the unhealthy atmosphere in the company: harassment, sexism and moral humiliation of employees. All charges relate to its two founders — creative director Simon Darveau and his ex-girlfriend Amélie Lamarche.Season

The British studio Jagex has changed its owner for the third time. The authors of RuneScape have moved under the leadership of an investment firm Carlyle Group. It is unknown how much the investors paid. But the media suggest that the deal cost at least $530 million. That’s how much the studio was bought for last time.

Steam presented the traditional list of the most successful new products of last month by revenue. In December, the top 20 included Red Dead Online, Worms Rumble, Haven and Cyberpunk 2077, which became one of the most popular games in the history of the store.Haven