Swedish media corporation The Modern Times Group (MTG) has announced the takeover of English mobile developer Hutch Games. The transaction amount was $375 million.The new owner of Hutch will be GamingCo Holding, which MTG together with InnoGames opened on December 7 to operate the Swedish company’s gaming business.

Cyberpunk 2077‘s score is still at 91/100, but critics are increasingly voicing their dissatisfaction with the game. Against this background, CD Projekt shares are falling rapidly, although just two days ago they were more expensive than ever.

They are wanted: an art director at Kefir, a Unity developer at Banzai Games, a UI/UX designer at Gyre Rig, as well as a game designer to work on an AAA project.

Blizzard has reported sales of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. In the first day after its release, it sold 3.7 million copies, which allowed it to become the fastest-selling PC game in history (according to Activision).The company told about this in a new report.

MicroProse publisher, which released the first two parts of Civilization, announced a strategic partnership with the owners of the Russian engine UNIGINE. It is on this engine that the company’s new titles will be developed.

Apple closes loopholes related to the hidden use of personal data of users of iOS applications. Email lists for targeting similar audiences are also banned.

For 10 years in the industry, Supergiant Games has become one of the most notable indie studios. Competent management helps the company to stay afloat and develop games like Bastion and Hades. Management does not force employees to overwork, but at the same time forces all team members to take regular vacations.Supergiant shared her principles in an interview with Kotaku, which was published last year.

This week, the Google Play Pass service, which allows you to play premium games when paying for a subscription, will be available in Russia. For our country, the subscription price will be 149 rubles per month.However, according to the official Google Play website, Play Pass is already available with us (although the editors failed to launch it:

On the eve of the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the press has already put up the first estimates — now the average score is kept at 91/100. Despite this, reviewers often point out the shortcomings of the game. 

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Peter Kostylev, art director of Kefir and producer of the Last Day on Earth project.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Anna Grigorieva, the publishing director of the publishing house Super.com . She talked about the success of Raji: An Ancient Epic and the growing number of cooperative games.

Ahead of the release of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt shares are selling more expensive than ever. The last time their price peaked was on August 27 — on the eve of the Gamescom 2020 Awards, at which the title collected the largest number of nominations.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick shared his view on the future of video games. According to him, the next 30-40 years will be “the most exciting” for the industry.

At the end of 2018, Netflix entered into negotiations with the CFO of Activision and eventually lured the employee to himself. Now the game publisher has sued the streaming service for interfering in contractual relations. At the same time, Netflix has been seen in similar actions with top managers of other companies before.The reason for the lawsuit was the transition of Activision CFO Spencer Neumann to a similar position at Netflix.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Andrei Iones, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Saber Interactive.

The film version of the game Monster Hunter: World was removed from rental in China because of a joke that many citizens of the country found offensive and racist. As a result, Chinese users began massively underestimating the game, and Capcom promised to investigate.What offended the Chinese in the film?

There is less than a week left before the release of Cyberpunk 2077. Analysts predict an extremely successful start to the game — 30 million copies sold in the first year. In the entire history, only about a dozen games have managed to achieve such results. But for this, the title needs to get at least 90 points on Metacritic, Bloomberg clarifies.

Advertising-based fraud in mobile games is a global problem. According to Adjust, the number of fraud has increased by more than 170% over the year, and fraudsters are increasingly faking organic traffic.From January to August 2020, Adjust analyzed more than 14.3 billion installations worldwide, including the United States, Europe, Latin America and China.

The MY.GAMES investment division has announced the acquisition of a minority stake from three mobile-related gaming companies at once. Now the brand has 34 closed deals on its account.