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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has acquired less than 5% of the shares of Bluehole Studios, which created the popular PvP action game Playerunknowns Battlegrounds.

The Chinese company Snail Digital sued the Fox film company for unproven assistance and financial assistance in the development of games based on the film War for the Planet of the Apes, which is why the start of projects was disrupted.

The Israeli creator of mobile strategies Plarium has acquired the studio Rumble Entertainment, known for its role-playing games for social networks and mobile.

App Annie has published ratings of the most earning and most downloaded Google Play apps in Europe “for all time”. Two applications from the ratings are made by Russian developers – Gardenscapes and VK .

Over 30 people were fired from Volition Studio, known for the Saints Row series of games and the new Agents of Mayhem title.

American mobile publisher Zynga announced plans to double operations in India and invest in the development of its office in Bangalore.

Google has determined the winners of the next competition for independent mobile game developers.

Gaming industry companies were among the high-tech businesses that were actively acquired by corporations of non-technological industries last year.