The confrontation between Apple and Microsoft is gaining momentum. The other day, a company from Cupertino accused Microsoft of taking advantage of the situation around its trial with Epic Games and using Fortnite authors as a “screen.”

Proceedings on the case of harassment in Ubisoft are due to begin this month. The company assures that it has taken many measures to improve the corporate culture and continues to work on correcting the situation. However, some employees claim that nothing has changed at Ubisoft, since the management still covers individual managers.Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Several American publications spoke at once about the situation around the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Some of the publications later disappeared from the sites. IGN employees, whose post was also deleted, wrote an angry letter to the leadership demanding the return of a note calling for help to the Palestinians. Other representatives of the gaming industry also reacted to this.How did it all start?

During the court proceedings, Phil Schiller, former vice president of marketing at Apple, spoke about the launch of the App Store. He recalled that the first iPhone was released in 2007 and initially only Apple‘s own applications worked on it (the rest could be opened through the Safari browser). However, due to numerous attempts by developers to hack a smartphone, the company decided to tighten control and launch an official store in 2008.

Apple continues to make arguments why services such as xCloud should not appear in the App Store. Now she stressed that gaming streaming services are fickle, which cannot be said about video platforms like Netflix. The games in them are like separate applications, interactive and constantly changing. Despite the fact that Netflix also has interactive content. For example, the movie “Black Mirror: Bandashmyg”.

As stated by Roblox, this is consistent with the company’s vision of the metaverse concept. They say that Roblox users get into many virtual worlds where they can not only play or create their own projects, but also engage in other activities. For example, to hold virtual concerts.

Lorin Hitt from the Wharton School of Business tried to prove that the browser can circumvent the ban on billing in the App Store. He stated that for at least eight games from the list of the top 25 projects at the box office in the store, you can buy content outside of iOS.

At the beginning of the year, Google Stadia began to have big problems after the closure of internal development studios and the departure of Jade Raymond. Despite this, the company assures that the platform feels great and continues to develop. Among the arguments are regular replenishment of the library of games and cooperation with indie studios. However, Google still doesn’t say anything about the size of the service’s audience.About the current state of Stadia in…

Xbox Game Studios will now work closely with the Chinese TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent and the developers of Honor of Kings and Call of Duty: Mobile. We are talking about creating game content, but both companies have not yet disclosed the details of the partnership.This became known today from the official press release.

Ubisoft told about the changes in its development strategy. The publisher intends to release freeplay offshoots of its key franchises. However, we are not talking about reducing the number of AAA titles, but about the approach that Activision has been using in recent years to develop the Call of Duty series.Ubisoft announced this during a conversation with investors after the publication of the annual report.

Apple prohibits developers from not only implementing their own payment systems, but also generally telling users about discounts outside of iOS. For example, they cannot be sent emails with an offer to buy a subscription or game currency on the game’s website cheaper than in the App Store. Also, you cannot specify similar information in the application itself.

Turkey occupies an increasingly important place in the gaming industry. This is evidenced by the growing popularity of mobile titles from local developers on the world market. For example, now 20% of the most downloaded games in the USA are projects of Turkish studios.Royal Match

Activision Blizzard wants remasters of old games to take full advantage of three-dimensional engines and at the same time preserve the spirit of the original projects. This is evidenced by the publisher’s new patent, which deals with the technology of converting 2D assets into 3D in real time. This can theoretically greatly simplify the process of creating updated versions.Diablo II: Resurrected

Less than a month ago, an application appeared in the Epic Games Store Itch.io — stora for indie games without DRM. As Apple noted, the standards of this site are very different from the standards of the Epic Games Store. In particular in Itch.io there is a Sisterly Lust game that includes “a list of fetishes with words that should not be uttered in federal court.” Although Epic Games itself does not encourage such content.

The owners of the Epic Games Store planned to earn about $500 million if 80 of the best-selling Steam games appeared in their store. The company developed the plan in 2019. In it, Epic Games also explained that without these bestsellers, it would be problematic for her to get a large share of the PC market. However, we note that by the end of the year, the company had agreed only with the developers of…

Epic Games has revealed data on the distribution of games from December 2018 to October 2020. In the graph, the company showed how many newcomers came to the Epic Games Store after these promotions. The distribution of GTA V was the most profitable — over 7 million new users. In second place was Sid Meier’s Civilization VI — 2.5 million people.

Indie developers are required to agree to support the xCloud streaming service if they want to publish games on Xbox. Epic Games‘ internal documents state that this is a matter of principle for Microsoft, and the company uses “harsh expressions regarding the requirement.” All unsuitable games are not allowed by Microsoft or removed from the Xbox ecosystem.

On July 27, 2020 — two and a half weeks before Fortnite was removed from the App Store — Epic Games sent the Project Liberty roadmap to the board of directors. This is a plan that described the company’s actions to combat the 30% commission in the App Store and Google Play.

One of the fundamental points that Epic Games defends is the permission to use third—party payment systems in the App Store. According to the company, this will “put an end to Apple‘s monopoly”, and users will receive more convenient and cheaper payment methods inside applications. That’s just such an innovation will affect all iOS applications, not just games like Fortnite.