Josef Fares, who was at the helm of the action adventure A Way Out, is not sure about the future of subscription services like Xbox Game Pass. According to the game designer, their main problem is an opaque system of payments to developers.

Recently, rumors appeared on the web that Microsoft is going to buy Techland. However, now the community manager of the Polish studio has stated that this is not true. According to him, the developers of Dying Light 2 do not intend to make a deal with Microsoft or anyone else.

Zynga games will appear on consoles and PCs. During a conversation with investors, the company announced that it was interested in cross—platform projects. The publisher has already started development and intends to release the first titles by the end of 2021.

The developer of the Unreal Engine has presented a tool that allows you to make a realistic digital model of a person in a few minutes — MetaHuman Creator. The technology is not yet without the effect of the “sinister valley”, but it is free. We chose the main thing about the Epic Games project and gathered the opinion of the gaming community.

Ubisoft has shared its plans for the next financial year. The company decided to abandon the model in which the main focus is on expensive AAA games. Now the publisher will begin to actively develop freeplay projects and support previously released titles.Ubisoft told about this during a call with investors as part of summing up the results of the third financial quarter (ended December 31).

On the Cocos Creator game engine, you can now fully work with three-dimensional graphics. The authors of the platform have launched Cocos Creator 3.0, a version of the framework that combines the functions of the company’s previous 2D and 3D products.

The public beta of the Chinese version of Steam, for which the publisher Perfect World is responsible, has become available to local gamers. Now a little more than 40 games are available in the store, including the titles of Vavle itself.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

There is one more support program for indie developers. Publisher SayGames has allocated $10 million for the publication of hyper-casual games as part of a special SayHero project.

Steam has updated its own record for the number of users who were online at the same time. Yesterday, the peak online in the Valve store exceeded 26 million people for the first time.According to SteamDB, on February 7, 26,401,443 people were on Steam at the same time.

Last week, the authors of Borderlands joined the Embracer Group. According to rumors, Microsoft was interested in buying Gearbox before the Swedish holding. That’s just among the conditions was the resignation of the head of the studio Randy Pitchford (Randy Pitchford).

App Annie has published the top 52 highest-grossing mobile publishers in the world according to the results of the previous year. Playrix is in 3rd place, Mail.Ru Group on the 51st.

The analytical company SuperData has published a report on sales of VR devices for the fourth quarter of 2020. Oculus Quest 2 is leading by a large margin, which was bought by over 1 million people.Oculus Quest 2, which went on sale in October last year, sold 1 million copies in three months.

This month Blizzard will host the BlizzCon Festival, which will be held online for the first time. The company revealed details of the free event and promised to show several “epic announcements”.

Another Google project was under attack. The corporation announced that it was discontinuing game development for Stadia and closing internal studios. The platform itself will continue to work for now, but without exclusives.

The launch of the PlayStation 5 in Japan turned out to be a record low, and local players were dissatisfied with the company’s increased attention to the western market. However, Platinum Games studio is confident that Sony’s new strategy will not affect the attitude of Japanese developers to the platform in any way.Atsushi Inaba, the head of Platinum Games, spoke about this in an interview with Video Games Chronicle.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, announced on the social network Clubhouse about the latest achievements of his startup Neuralink. His scientists implanted a wireless chip into the monkey’s brain, thanks to which the animal can play Pong with the power of thought.

Rovio has announced the closure of its cloud mobile gaming Hatch. The developers of Angry Birds wanted to make it a “gaming Netflix”, but for several years it remained unprofitable.Gamasutra noticed that the company simply announced the closure of the project in a banner on the official website: “Hatch stopped working on December 31.

Indie studio Scavengers Studio reacted to the scandalous investigation and accusations of harassment by its co-founder. As a result, Simon Darveau was suspended, and the company intends to conduct an internal audit.The studio made this decision during an emergency meeting.

While Apple is investing in virtual reality, Google is shutting down VR services. The company has announced that it will no longer officially support the Tilt Brush 3D drawing application. From now on, its source can be found on GitHub.