In April, Wargaming launched a new studio. It is located in the capital of Lithuania — Vilnius. A couple of months later it became known that the “tank” giant also purchased 76 apartments in one of the high-rise buildings there. The transaction amount is estimated at €20 million.

Another company, following Apple and Google, reduces the commission for developers with a small income. Amazon has announced that from the fourth quarter of 2021, the commission in its Appstore will be reduced to 20%. Developers will also be able to receive 10% cashback.

Developer Scott Cawthon, known as the creator of the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, has announced his retirement from the gaming industry. This happened shortly after he and his pregnant wife began receiving death threats. The reason was Coughton’s political views and support for “wrong” candidates like Donald Trump.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, said that a joint show with Bethesda at E3 broke records for views from his company. He thanked for a great week and noted that Microsoft has not felt so much energy and inspiration from players and teams since the Xbox 360.

Ads will appear in games for Oculus VR headsets. Facebook has announced that it will start testing creatives in the coming weeks.

The last major presentation at E3 2021 was Nintendo Direct. According to many players, the show was very successful, but investors did not share the enthusiasm. The shares of the Japanese company fell by several points.

On June 15, Capcom held a half-hour conference at E3. There were very few announcements there, which neither gamers nor investors liked. Immediately after the presentation, the company’s shares went down.

Yesterday it became known that Gary McKay became the new general manager of BioWare. He started his career at Electronic Arts and was responsible for the development of the FIFA series for some time. Despite a lot of experience in the industry and promises to create great story RPGs, some fans were dissatisfied with the new leader.Gary McKay (source: BioWare)

Yesterday, June 13, Microsoft and Square Enix held their conferences as part of E3 2021. We understand how the stock market and the gaming community reacted to them.

The opening ceremony of Summer Game Fest was held yesterday. At it, Koch Media, a subsidiary of the Embracer Group, presented a publishing label — Prime Matter. However, neither the launch of a new publisher nor the announcement of its games impressed investors.

E3 and similar events have been criticized for years by both ordinary viewers and people from the industry. On the eve of the new exhibition, a big emotional thread on this topic was written by the head of Raw Fury and a scouting specialist Johan Toresson. He explained why developers and publishers should stop spending money on big events.Toresson’s thread appeared in response to criticism of the E3 media portal by Matt Brown, senior editor…

Apple has named the winners of the Apple Design Award, which is awarded to mobile applications and games for the best design. This year, four games became finalists, among which there is Genshin Impact.

Many Chinese gaming companies have rather harsh working conditions — specialists work six days a week from 9 am to 9 pm. However, Lightspeed & Quantum studio, owned by Tencent and developed PUBG Mobile, decided to fight crunches. To do this, she made a number of small concessions for her employees.This was reported by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

Gaijin Entertainment will now conduct pairs at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The authors of War Thunder have launched a master’s program at the university, where they will tell you how to make games. But there is one caveat — the requirements for applicants came out quite tough.

China has very strict certification rules, as the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 were well aware of. It turned out that the developers of the game marked with the tag “Winnie the Pooh” all the controversial content that should be removed before the release in China. The problem is that this character has been banned in the country since 2017.

At the beginning of the year, users of the Royal Games browser games portal, which belongs to King, faced the inability to withdraw their money from the site. This went on for several months. It turned out that the reason was an investigation by PayPal and the problem of the so-called “skill-gaming”.What is Royal Games?

Top managers of CD PROJEKT demanded to vacate their positions. The British firm Abri Advisors, which owns an unspecified stake in the Polish publisher, sent a letter to its board of directors. In it, she delivered an ultimatum: either CEO Adam Kicinski and his deputy Marcin Ivinsky leave, or Abri Advisors will raise the issue of removing the entire board of directors.

Activision has a new internal mobile studio. It’s called Activision Mobile. Its launch became known from the published vacancies of the company. They also indicate that the studio will be engaged in a mobile game under the Call of Duty brand. The media suggested that we are talking about the Warzone port.

The Chinese giant Tencent continues its expansion into the American market. The company announced the opening of a new office in Los Angeles, which will employ hundreds of people. This is the fifth Tencent office in the United States.The new office is located in the area of Playa Vista, which is part of the territory of the so-called “Silicon Beach” (Silicon Beach).