For gamedev, Texas is one of the most promising American states. However, it may soon cease to be so. Many experts in the gaming industry fear that the recently enacted anti-abortion law threatens both the career of developers and the work of the studios themselves.

The publisher of Fall Guys and Loop Hero, the American Devolver Digital, is going to enter the Alternative Investment Market (also known as AIM, which operates at the London Stock Exchange) this Thursday. The expected public valuation of the company will be almost £700 million (or $956 million).

Since the end of July, no new online game can be approved for release in China. This is the longest “freeze” since 2018 — then the issuance of licenses was stopped for nine months. The current situation has already forced some developers to buy licenses on the black market.

Companies with Russian roots have begun to look closely at the increasingly popular concept of metaverses. MYTONA announced its own metaverse project. Her unit in New Zealand has been working on it for two years.The Metaverse from MYTONA

The mobile games market is growing rapidly. Unity looked at what is happening on it now and identified six main trends for 2022. She shared her reasoning in a new large study.

The Subspace startup is preparing to launch its own service for online titles and metaverses. It is designed to help improve the stability of the Internet connection and help companies attract a new audience to their games. The Subspace service will officially launch on November 16 and will work in 60 countries.Photo: Subspace

Notorious Studios is a new studio opened by former Blizzard employees. According to the idea, there will be no managers in it, and all processes will be made transparent. The team has already enlisted the support of Riot Games.

Goodgame Studio has decided to become an international mobile publisher. To do this, the German company announced the launch of an internal publishing direction. The first release of Goodgame as a publisher was the War Alliance strategy.

The analytical company Naavik, commissioned by Wooga Studio, conducted a study of the top 50 mobile puzzles in the Western market. The results showed that very few titles can boast of racial diversity and representation of LGBTQ+ representatives.

There will be one less site for browser games. King has announced the closure of the Royal Games portal, which has been operating since 2003. The official reason is changes in web technologies. But the closure could also have been facilitated by an investigation by PayPal concerning gaming payments in certain countries.

The gaming industry in the UK is experiencing a new upswing: large companies and publishers are buying British studios, as well as opening new branches in London and across the country. This year, Square Enix, EA and Activision Blizzard were among such companies.

TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent, announced the launch of F1, a branch for the development of AAA games with an open world. There is a version that the opening of a new studio is one of Tencent’s steps towards the development of the global metaverse. TiMi refutes these rumors.

The state of California is unhappy that Activision Blizzard wants to suspend consideration of its claim of discrimination in the company. He said that the publisher is deliberately trying to inflate the scandal and uses false facts for this.Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images

Epic increases the portfolio of published games. Today it became known that the Fortnite developer has taken on publishing future projects of two studios — from the veteran of the indie scene Spry Fox, responsible for the emergence of the merge genre, and from the newly launched Eyes Out team, organized by the designer Spec-Ops: The Line together with the guitarist Nine Inch Nails.

Publishers rarely share insiders. The exception is always a joy. The other day, a similar exception was made by Johan Toresson, the head of the indie publishing house Raw Fury. He stated that the company receives at least 1,500 pitches a year. He noted that this is not very much. Of this number of applications, Raw Fury usually takes less than 1% to work.

At the end of July, the California authorities filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, accusing the company of discrimination and harassment. It turned out that from that moment the publisher fired 20 employees and brought the same number to disciplinary responsibility.

Facebook is preparing for rebranding. The company does not want to be thought of only as a social network. Its new name will refer to plans to build a metaverse.

Blender uses a special fund to develop and support its tools. Now Apple is among the main sponsors. The company’s funds will be used to develop the key components of Blender and add new functions to it.The fact that Apple will transfer funds to the Blender Development Fund on a monthly basis was announced by the developers of the toolkit on October 14.

Jeff Strain, the former founder of ArenaNet and Undead Labs, has announced the opening of a new studio, Possibility Space. She will create an online project and work remotely with developers around the world. The team has already been joined by former employees of companies such as Ubisoft, Valve and Oculus.Possibility Space has already raised funds from the Transcend Fund and the Louisiana Economic Development Fund.