The Polish company People Can Fly, which developed Painkiller, Bulletstorm and Outriders, has announced a new purchase. The studio Phosphor Games from Chicago passed into her hands. It is not known how much the deal cost.

The developers of the open source Godot engine presented version 3.3. Work on it was carried out for seven months. Among the main innovations are the web version of the editor, a new API for iOS plugins, support for M1 chips, as well as improved rendering tools, multithreading and working with HTML5.Web Editor in Godot 3.3

The new law on education will take control of master classes and educational videos on the Internet. This became clear from the resolution published last week. We tell you what happened.

The cooperative action platformer It Takes Two, even though it lost the lead in the Steam chart, shows good sales dynamics. The total circulation of the game exceeded 1 million copies — it took her a little less than a month.Hazelight Studios announced this on Twitter.

Developers are beginning to actively use the Playtest function on Steam. Chinese studio 24 Entertainment has launched an open beta of its debut game Naraka: Bladepoint using it. The Battle Royale with elements of Parkour has already been included in the list of the most popular Steam games, and its peak online exceeded 140 thousand people.24 Entertainment announced the launch of the Naraka: Bladepoint beta on April 23.

There are a lot of changes in the Steam chart this week. The remaster NieR Replicant got into the top 10 twice at once. The game also became the leader of the chart, shifting It Takes Two from the first place. Titanfall 2 also returned to the top ten.NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…

CD Projekt shared information about reserves that relate to possible losses from Cyberpunk 2077 refunds. In total, the company has pledged more than $50 million for this expense item, based on current data and sales estimates.The Ars Technica portal drew attention to the data.

President Vladimir Putin approved the idea of Rospotrebnadzor to make days off between May holidays. Now Russians will have a rest from May 1 to May 10 inclusive.

The organizer of the WN Conference, whose next session will consist of two events and will be a hybrid, announced the program. Among the speakers are NetEase, Cocos, Huawei, Niko Partners and many others.

The Plarium Krasnodar team in its column for App2Top.ru she told me how she localizes. She also shared a number of cases and approaches that she uses when adapting games for the international market.

The Beijing-based analytical company QuestMobile shared the results of a study of the advertising market in China for 2020. Mobile games earned 10 billion yuan from advertising, but this is only a small share of the almost trillion-dollar market in China.The data was also published by the GameLook portal.

The largest Australian indie studio Mighty Kingdom, known for the games Shopkins and Peter Rabbit Run!, has entered the stock exchange. During the IPO, the developers managed to raise $18 million, and their market capitalization was $24.5 million*.

Xsolla has announced the acquisition of Slemma, a company that analyzes data and allows you to create customizable dashboards. Now these tools will be integrated into the Xsolla platform.The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Before the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the game was predicted to have some of the best initial sales in history. After a series of scandals, analysts’ expectations have fallen sharply. But it turned out that the title could not justify even the worst of them. And it’s not about large-scale returns.

Today it became known about the government’s plans to establish a special fund to support games that popularize Russian history and culture. It is reported that the main initiators — Mail.ru Group and Yandex, and the project itself can work by analogy with the Cinema Fund.The initiative was included in the latest edition of the second package of measures to support the IT industry, Kommersant reports.

Today, on April 22, CD Projekt Group released its financial report for 2020. According to the document, its revenue grew by 310% last year, and net profit by 558% compared to 2019. It was also announced how much the group spent on the creation of Cyberpunk 2077.

Now you can download not only games, but also software from the Epic Games Store. The store even has a special section for them. There are only six programs available in it so far, but Epic Games promises that there will be more of them over time. One of their first programs of the section was itch.io — store of indie games without DRM.

Valve has announced the official release of two new features on Steam at once. Playtest and simplified game search came out of beta. We share details about each of them.

A month ago, on March 25, the global launch of the mobile version of Magic: The Gathering Arena took place. In four weeks, she earned $4.6 million. This is one of the most successful launches of CCI on mobile platforms.