Nintendo is experimenting with monetization. In the Mario Kart Tour game coming out today on iOS and Google Play, along with the monetization mechanics standard for a free-play game, there is also a subscription.

The launch line of Google Play Pass will include at least two domestic games. Shadow Fight 2 Special Edition by Nekki and The Tiny Bang Story by Colibri Games.

The ways of development of Take-Two will affect India and Africa. According to the publisher, in the future these markets will offer huge opportunities for game rendezvous.

The revenue of developers with Google Play Pass will depend on the time that users spend in their games.

There is also a place for card games on the blockchain market. This is evidenced by the successful completion of the Immutable series “A”. The studio invested $15 million in the new project.

A video about the origins of the Civilization series was released on the Ars Technica YouTube channel. Its main character is Sid Meier. He says that the first Civilization could have become an RTS game.

There will also be a subscription to premium games on Google Play. Today, on September 23, the final details about the Google Play Pass service appeared.

This year, the turnover of the US gaming market could reach $44.6 billion. This is 6% more than last year’s result.

At least for third-party observers, Apple’s new gaming service lacks transparency. None of the Apple Arcade games are tracked by analytics services.

The Louis Vuitton fashion house has become a global partner of the League of Legends World Championship. Before that, the brand supported only classic sports tournaments.

Every autumn, VKontakte holds a VK High Score conference. This event is for game developers who cooperate with the social network. The conference will be held this time as well.

This year, the Emmy Award for the best TV movie was awarded to the non-standard project “Black Mirror: Brandashmyg”. This is an interactive movie — that is, in fact, a game.

2K Games talked about the sales of Borderlands 3, which brought the revenue of the entire series to the amount of one billion dollars.

GreedFall was released on September 10. This is a new attempt by Spiders, known for The Technomancer, to create a truly great RPG. We tell you how its development proceeded.

PUBG Mobile’s revenue exceeded $1 billion. The title from Tencent became the first battle royale in history to take this bar.

Over the last month of summer, users spent $8.9 billion worldwide on video games (this is only sales in numbers). 62% of this amount was accounted for by mobile.

A new game console, the Nintendo Switch Lite, went on sale today. We have read the reviews on it and highlighted the main thing.

Unity Technologies has announced its second major acquisition in a year. The authors of the engine absorbed the company DeltaDNA, which specializes in monitoring and analyzing mobile games.

The launch line of games for Apple Arcade includes Spaceland. This is so far the first and only game on the service from developers from Russia.