We continue to share new details about the Activision Blizzard scandal. Yesterday, hundreds of employees went on strike and once again voiced their demands to the management and personally to Bobby Kotick. Meanwhile, Ubisoft employees supported their colleagues and reminded them of similar problems within their company.

That’s No Moon is a new studio founded by people from Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward and other large companies. The team has already attracted investments in the amount of $ 100 million and will develop a story AAA game.The creation of That’s No Moon was announced on July 28 on the official website of the studio.

Sony‘s gaming division is not ready to share a financial report yet, but it has already brought data on PlayStation 5 sales. The console sold 10 million units worldwide by July 18 and became Sony’s fastest-selling console.

Shawn Layden, a gaming consultant and former boss of PlayStation Studios, expressed his opinion about the problems of the gaming industry. He fears that consolidation could lead to stagnation of the industry. Leyden also doubts the effectiveness of the Xbox Game Pass model and believes that gaming is on the threshold of a new era.Sean Layden

We tell you about the latest events related to the Activision Blizzard scandal. Today, employees are going to go on strike and have already made a number of demands to the management. During the day, the capitalization of the company fell by $ 4 billion, and Bobby Kotick turned to his subordinates and promised to take measures to resolve the situation.Bobby the Cat

A Reddit user found out which engines are most often used in the most highly rated games on Steam. It turned out that in the top 50 last year, almost 50% of projects were made on Unity. This engine is ahead of competitors, including Unreal, by a large margin.Such conclusions were reached by the user wx3labs, who shared the results of his small research on a popular site.

Electronic Arts has big plans for sports titles. The company said that over the next five years it is going to double their audience: from 230 million to 500 million people.

Activision Blizzard employees condemned the management’s inaction and unwillingness to fully acknowledge the problems with harassment and harassment of women at work. Hundreds of people signed a letter demanding to bring the perpetrators to justice and carry out reforms within the company.The full text of the appeal was published on July 26 on the Bloomberg website.

Over the weekend, a scandal related to Activision Blizzard’s accusations of discrimination against women developed. Mike Morhaime, one of the founders and former head of Blizzard, spoke about the problem. Some employees stopped working on World of Warcraft in protest, and a number of media outlets announced a boycott of the company.

On July 22, Electronic Arts held a presentation of EA Play Live. It also showed a sandbox mode for Battlefield 2042 and announced a remake of Dead Space. We tell you how the stock market and the gaming community reacted to the event.

Microsoft has decided to share its game development kit. The company published it for free on GitHub, but with the condition that you can use it without a license only for studying.

Zoom is expanding. The company has added the Zoom Apps app store to its video conferencing service. Among other things, it has games that you can play right during a video call.

Xsolla has introduced a new gaming investment platform, which is called the Game Investment Platform. On it, indie developers can get additional funding without having to share the rights to the game with investors.

ByteDance decided to compete in video games not only with Chinese giants Tencent and NetEase, but also with international companies such as Nintendo and Activision Blizzard. She announced plans to become “a global gaming company that can remain popular for decades.”World of Warcraft

TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent, has an office in Montreal. The new studio will develop a multiplatform AAA game with an open world. In the future, based on this project, a full-fledged game metaverse from TiMi Studios may appear.

Nintendo rarely comments on rumors, but this time decided not to leave the situation unanswered. The company denied a Bloomberg report that Switch OLED should become more profitable than the previous model.

Glen Schofield, former director of Sledgehammer Games, spoke about the importance of research activities when creating Call of Duty. However, the Kotaku publication compared his work trips with vacations and considered that the head of a large studio had nothing to complain about. Many developers came to Scofield’s defense. They explained why business trips are tedious and difficult work.

Epic Games continues to improve its store. The company has updated the Epic Games Store (EGS) development plan in the Trello Task Manager. Soon, player profiles, clickable tags and a few more features should appear on the platform.

The announcement of the Steam Deck aroused considerable interest among gaming industry experts and ordinary users. At the same time, most of the reactions were positive. The Valve console is compared to the Nintendo Switch, memes are made about it, and they also talk about whether it will be able to find its audience and become a competitive solution in the market.