The Minsk office of Wargaming may be expecting security forces.

Embracer Group has announced the purchase of eight companies. Among them are both large developers like 4A Games and New World Interactive, as well as small indie studios. We briefly tell you about each transaction.4A Games

“It is dangerous to leave the house,” “There were cases when people went to take out the garbage and did not return,” “We know about the detention of two of our employees,” the Belarusian game developers said App2Top.ru about what is happening in the country and with them now.

French Voodoo launched the “Voodoo Runner Competition”. The essence of the contest: to create an excellent hyper-casual game in the runner genre for iOS, and then win $ 100 thousand and a publishing contract.

Embracer Group Holding announced a major purchase. Through a subsidiary of Saber Interactive, he acquired 100% of Maltese 4A Games. The latter is known as the developer of the Metro shooter series. The transaction amount may amount to $80 million.

Analysts from Sensor Tower have published a report on the highest-grossing mobile project of last month. PUBG Mobile from Tencent earned the most in July with revenue of $208 million. Also in the overall top was a project from Playrix.The Sensor Tower report is based on data from the App Store and Google Play in the world, excluding revenue from third-party Android stores.

The Estonian division of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) commented App2Top.ru the situation around the game Aeon Must Die!. Its developers accuse the employer — Limestone Games — of unbearable working conditions, manipulation and corruption.

iOS 14 has not yet been released, and Apple has not yet tightened its policy towards IDFA, as the gaming market has already felt the consequences of the upcoming changes. Shares of Zynga Studio fell by 4.86%.

The National Literacy Trust of Britain has published a new study in which it analyzed the impact of games on the lives of teenagers. Scientists have come to the conclusion that gamers often improve literacy, creativity, empathy, and also improve their mental state.As part of the study, researchers interviewed 4,600 British teenagers aged 11 to 16 years.

On August 13, the servers of the new Eve Echoes game officially open. This is a mobile reinterpretation of the MMO centenarian Eve Online by the Icelandic CCP. Its mobile version was developed by the Chinese NetEase. We talked with the producer of the novelty about its development and differences from the original.

The launch of the Xbox Series X is scheduled for November, Microsoft first reported. At the same time, at the start, the next-generation console will remain without the main exclusive in the face of Halo Infinite, which unexpectedly moved next year.Despite the fact that Microsoft planned to release its next-generation console at the end of this year, even an approximate release window was not called until that moment.

The creators of the game in the universe of “Alien” Cold Iron Studios have changed the owner for the fourth time in three years. Now the studio has been acquired by Daybreak Games.

Korean studio Com2uS released the mobile hit Summoner’s War back in 2014, but the game still brings a lot of money. To date, the title’s revenue has reached $2 billion.

The first Game Industry Legal Conference has been announced. This is a two-day conference on the law in the gaming industry. It will be held on the WN Hub platform, its key partner is the Semenov& Pevzner law firm.

Wanted: ASO-manager at Black Caviar Games, artist/designer of advertising creatives at JetDogs and tester at Targem Games.

Amazon has renamed its gaming service Prime Gaming, which 150 million Amazon Prime subscription holders can now use for free. Thus, the company plans to significantly expand the audience, as well as provide a number of advantages to developers.The Twitch Prime project, launched by Amazon in 2016, provided users with free games, in-game items (skins, weapons, etc.) and subscriptions to Twitch.

We talked to the lawyer of the former employees of Limestone Games, who last week accused their employer of corruption and kidnapping of the company.

Game designer Raphael Colantonio founded Arkane Studio in 1999 and participated in the creation of projects such as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and Dishonored. In an interview with PC Gamer, he talked about the reasons for leaving the AAA segment, the problems of the industry and his new independent project.

The creator of League of Legends continues to fight for the reputation of an open company that stands for equal rights. In response to the sensational history of partnership with the city of Neom, Riot Games reviewed internal processes and launched the ethics committee and the council on transactions.