Sony‘s ranks may soon be replenished by Bluepoint Games, a studio that recently released a remake of Demon’s Souls. According to rumors, the Japanese company is already negotiating a purchase. The network also suggests that upon completion of the deal, the developers will be engaged in remakes of Metal Gear Solid exclusively for PS5.

Sony announced that the launch of PlayStation 5 sales turned out to be the most successful — both in the history of the brand itself and the entire console industry.

Lucasfilm has decided to put together Star Wars games and its other franchises under a single brand — Lucasfilm Games. That was the name of the company’s gaming division, founded by George Lucas almost 40 years ago.

Hyper Casual games remain one of the most actively developing areas of mobile gaming. Supersonic Studios specialists told us what you should pay attention to when creating and studying projects in this category this year.The original material was published on the pages of VentureBeat.

PlayStation suffered heavy losses in the Japanese market. For the whole of 2020, less than a million Sony consoles were sold in the country. The last time this happened was in 1994 — during the launch of the PS1.

On the eve of the New Year, Nintendo has published a list of indie games that have become bestsellers for Switch in 2020. Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Hades and Spiritfarer, among others, were noted as sales leaders.

A sample of the publishing contract published by Raw Fury last week caused a great resonance among industry workers. In his blog on Gamasutra, gaming expert Simon Carless analyzed its main conditions, and also talked about the pros and cons of the contract with the publisher.About the author: Simon Carless is a former game designer who worked at Atari and Eidos Interactive, as well as the founder of the GameDiscoverCo platform, which advises publishers and…

Another cloud gaming service has appeared. It was launched by Sber, which continues to develop new business areas. Participation in the beta of the service is free, but there are a couple of nuances — it will last only a month and will require a special console.

A few days before the New Year, Valve decided to tell us which games were the most successful on Steam in 2020.

More than a third of teenagers and young people in the UK start buying loot boxes at the age of 13. Many of them spend their parents’ money without permission. In some cases, children’s gambling addiction drives their families into debt and forces them to mortgage property.In recent years, more and more organizations in the UK have been paying attention to the problem of loot boxes and their accessibility for children and adolescents.

Hyper-casual publisher Voodoo continues to show impressive results. In 2020 alone, users downloaded his games more than two billion times.

Not only Apple reduces the commission for developers with low income. The Chinese gaming store WeGame — a local analogue of Steam — said that it would not take deductions from games whose annual revenue is below 10 million rubles ($ 1.5 million).

As a result of the purchase of the Chinese company Leyou Technologies, several game studios came under the management of Tencent at once. Among them are Digital Extremes, the creators of the Warframe shooter. Now many are concerned about the question of whether developers will retain their creative independence.The deal, which was approved by 97.7% of Leyou shareholders, became known in the middle of the month.

Direct replenishment of the wallet on Steam may not be available for some users from the beginning of next year. It’s all about “changes in Russian legislation.”

The end of 2020 is not far off. In honor of this, our colleagues from GamesIndustry showed the final figures of the gaming industry in their infographic.

On December 31, a new digital payment authentication policy will come into effect in Europe. It will also affect the App Store. Apple told developers how to prepare for changes.

KamaGames, a developer and publisher with Russian roots, can boast of a new achievement. The number of unique users in its social casinos has reached 150 million people.

Tonight Sony decided to temporarily remove Cyberpunk 2077 from the PS Store and return the money to those who have already bought the game. When exactly the CD Projekt RED project will appear again in the store is unknown.

Shares of Sony and Nintendo began to grow rapidly and reached record levels for more than 10 years. Experts attribute the increased interest of investors to the second wave of coronavirus and the upcoming holidays.According to Bloomberg, today Nintendo shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose by 6.6% and reached a value of 67,850 ($658) for each paper.