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.

The Chinese authorities have been struggling with the gambling addiction of minors for many years. Another project is ready to launch — now Chinese players will be required to change nicknames to real names.

In the second quarter, American players spent $11.6 billion on video games and related products. As analysts from the NPD Group note, this is an absolute record. At the same time, every third owner of a PS4 or Xbox One has at least both consoles.Key data

The Defold game engine has a new strong partner. The Defold Foundation organization that owns it has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Minsk-based game studio Melsoft Games.

The authors who worked on the plots for the Lovestruck mobile game have been trying to get an increase in compensation for three weeks. As a result, the publisher, represented by Voltage Entertainment, made concessions and increased the salary of all remote screenwriters.”We would not have been able to achieve this if we had not acted collectively.

In 17 days, the teenager managed to spend $ 20 thousand on subscriptions and donations on Twitch. It took his family a month to get the money back. By the way, Twitch itself has not responded to the situation.

According to rumors, in the purchase of the gaming division of Warner Bros. several major publishers were interested at once — including Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard. However, now the head of the company has issued an official denial.WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar wrote a letter to the company’s employees, in which he denied information about the sale of Warner Bros.

Electronic Arts shareholders refused bonuses to the company’s top management and gave a serious reason for reflection. Up to this point, only 2.2% of companies in the Russell 3000 index did not receive bonuses due to investor decisions.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout continues to set records. Last weekend, the number of simultaneous players on Steam exceeded the figures of many hits of this year, including DOOM Eternal and Sea of Thieves.On August 8, Fall Guys reached 124.7 thousand simultaneous players, according to game analyst Benji-Sales.

The latest game in the Animal Crossing series has become not only one of the most successful titles on the current generation of consoles, but also approached the title of the best-selling game in the history of the Japanese market. There is only one project from the Pokémon series ahead.On August 7, the Game Data Library project, which counts game sales in Japan, announced new successes of Animal Crossing:

After the history of the development of the game Aeon Must Die! it was widely publicized, its publisher made official statements. He addressed all the accusations to Limestone Games, but promised to look into the situation.

Facebook still managed to release Facebook Gaming on iOS after five refusals from Apple. However, in order to do this, the company was forced to remove all games and related functions from its application.At the same time, Android users, where Facebook Gaming appeared in April, have access to all the functions of the application.

Analysts at Niko Partners found that over the past month Apple has removed 42 thousand games from the Chinese App Store. The number will only grow, as the company seriously intends to get rid of all applications that do not have permission to publish in China by the end of the year.Over the past month, Apple has removed about 15 thousand games that do not have a license to publish in China.

Services for “playing in the cloud” violate the rules of the App Store, Apple reports. Neither Google Stadia nor Microsoft xCloud will be released on the Apple platform.