Genshin Impact reached a new peak of popularity last week. Its official Discord server has gained an audience of 800 thousand people – it is simply impossible to do more. As a result, the authors of the game from the studio miHoYo had to open a second server for her.

The best—selling game of the week on Steam turned out to be New World again – pre-orders of two of its editions kept the first two lines of the chart. But the rest of the rating has changed a lot. The only game besides New World that managed to stay in the top ten bestsellers was GTA V.

In April, indie studio Wolfire Games, which created an action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, sued Valve. She claimed that Steam owners forbid publishers to sell games in other stores at cheaper prices, and generally abuse their position in the PC market. Three months later, Valve stated that there were no grounds for these accusations.

The day before yesterday, about a thousand Ubisoft employees signed an open letter in support of their colleagues from Activision Blizzard. In it, they also criticized the way Ubisoft is struggling with its problems. Last night, CEO Yves Guillemot commented on this letter. Spoiler: The employees didn’t like his answer.

Analysts from Newzoo have published a detailed guide on metaverses. They are still arguing about what it is, but analysts believe that they will change the game design, economy and content of video games. As a result, the games-services that are familiar today will turn into platform games designed for the socialization of users and the integration of brands into them.Definition and main features of the metaverse

In the first seven days since the release of The Witcher: Monster Slayer was downloaded a million times, analysts at Sensor Tower calculated. They also found out that the revenue of the mobile AR game in the Witcher universe in the debut week exceeded $ 500 thousand.

The analytical company GameRefinery summed up the results of the second quarter and told about the main mobile genres and publishers in the USA, Japan and China. For example, American gamers like to play puzzles and give a lot of money to Roblox — it accounts for over 5% of the country’s gaming revenue.

Last July, Vladimir Kharitonchik, a programmer at Playtika, died on a business trip to Turkey. Portal dev.by prepared a large material in which he told how the company reacted to the death of an employee and what his family wants.

We continue to share new details about the Activision Blizzard scandal. Yesterday, hundreds of employees went on strike and once again voiced their demands to the management and personally to Bobby Kotick. Meanwhile, Ubisoft employees supported their colleagues and reminded them of similar problems within their company.

Despite the high effect of last year’s lockdowns, the financial indicators of MY.GAMES continue to grow. In the first six months of 2021, it earned 22 billion rubles. In its report, the company also shared metrics of its key games.Revenue growth in the first half of the year was 18% compared to the same period in 2020.

By the end of 2022, esports disciplines will appear in Russian universities. Rostelecom proposed the idea to the Government. The company is confident that video games will make students more creative and stress—resistant, as well as teach them how to work in a team and make quick decisions.

That’s No Moon is a new studio founded by people from Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward and other large companies. The team has already attracted investments in the amount of $ 100 million and will develop a story AAA game.The creation of That’s No Moon was announced on July 28 on the official website of the studio.

Sony‘s gaming division is not ready to share a financial report yet, but it has already brought data on PlayStation 5 sales. The console sold 10 million units worldwide by July 18 and became Sony’s fastest-selling console.

Last year, Riot Games began actively releasing full—fledged mobile games – previously it had only mini-applications on its account. The analytical company Sensor Tower found out that to date, mobile has brought developers $ 108.4 million *.

Shawn Layden, a gaming consultant and former boss of PlayStation Studios, expressed his opinion about the problems of the gaming industry. He fears that consolidation could lead to stagnation of the industry. Leyden also doubts the effectiveness of the Xbox Game Pass model and believes that gaming is on the threshold of a new era.Sean Layden

Microsoft reported for the fourth fiscal quarter (ended June 30). The revenue of its gaming division reached $3.6 billion. An important role in this was played by the Xbox Series X and S, which turned out to be the fastest-selling consoles in the company’s history.

We tell you about the latest events related to the Activision Blizzard scandal. Today, employees are going to go on strike and have already made a number of demands to the management. During the day, the capitalization of the company fell by $ 4 billion, and Bobby Kotick turned to his subordinates and promised to take measures to resolve the situation.Bobby the Cat

Roskomnadzor will temporarily block Atomic Heart trailers on YouTube, in which the song “Music connected us” sounds. This decision was made by the Moscow City Court as part of the proceedings between Andrey Lityagin (founder of the Mirage group) and Google.

A Reddit user found out which engines are most often used in the most highly rated games on Steam. It turned out that in the top 50 last year, almost 50% of projects were made on Unity. This engine is ahead of competitors, including Unreal, by a large margin.Such conclusions were reached by the user wx3labs, who shared the results of his small research on a popular site.