Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Epic Games’ Fortnite cooperative shooter has gathered 7 million players on all platforms thanks to the “Battle Royale” free-play mode, which started on September 26.

Amazon Internet Corporation has acquired the company Body Labs. The latter has developed a technology that captures the figure of a person and his movements at home, on the basis of which it immediately generates a three-dimensional model.

The director of the films “District No. 9”, “Elysium” and “Chappie” Neill Blomkamp (Neill Blomkamp) releases two short fiction films created entirely on the Unity engine.

How is the work on games built within Supercell teams, – App2Top.ru told the product-lead Hay Day and Boom Beach.

The autumn editorial selection of Android Excellence games from the Google Play app store included the puzzle adventure Karma.Incarnation 1. by the Russian studio AuraLab.

The American studio Level Ex has raised $11 million in investments for the further development of realistic surgical simulators.

Wanted: programmer at Game Forest, illustrator at Nevosoft, traffic manager at Kefir! studio and many, many people at Playrix.

Microsoft is negotiating with Bluehole Studio to extend the exclusive period of the PvP shooter version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for the Xbox One platform amid negotiations on the release of the game on PS4.

Every third game for the Nintendo Switch console is developed on the Unity engine, Unity Technologies reported.

The revenues of the mobile time manager of Restaurant Dash: Gordon Ramsay under the brand of chef and TV star Gordon Ramsay from Glu Games studio reached $17 million.

The strategy of Total War: Warhammer II by Creative Assembly studio after the release on September 28 simultaneously gathered 72 thousand players on Steam. This is 36% less than the first part of the game, which gathered 112 thousand people at the start a year ago.

The president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Andrew House, announced his departure. He worked at Sony Corporation for almost 27 years.

The Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group of the Chinese Alibaba Corporation plans to create a business group engaged in the creation of video games.

Alexey Savchenko from Epic Games will perform at the Moscow session of White Nights. He will talk about new and future features of Unreal Engine 4. We offer to come up with questions for him in advance. We will award premium tickets to the authors of the top two.

The developer of the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole Studio has denied the fact of the purchase of its shares by the Chinese corporation Tencent.

Cuphead’s two-dimensional shooter from MDHR Studio sold 125 thousand copies in three days of sales on Steam.

The global audience of the Plague Inc strategy of Ndemic Creations studio on all platforms exceeded 100 million people.

The demand for collectible titles in retail will always remain, despite falling sales of physical copies, says Philip Brock, PR director of THQ Nordic publishing house.