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.

Until recently, there was no unified age rating system in China. Now the country’s authorities have obliged game publishers to label their products. The practice is designed, among other things, to combat gambling addiction.Its introduction was announced by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

A lot of noise has been raised around the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077. The gaming community blamed the title’s shortcomings on its developers, testers and, eventually, the owners of the platforms that certified the game — Sony and Microsoft. Rami Ismail, a well-known indie developer, explained how the certification process goes and why Sony and Microsoft should not be responsible for the shortcomings of Cyberpunk 2077.

Another industry veteran has launched a gaming startup. This time we are talking about Marcus Segal and Michael Pagano Doom from Zynga. They founded a studio that will focus exclusively on VR projects.

Nvidia provoked a scandal. She refused to provide video cards for review to the popular Hardware Unboxed channel due to the fact that its authors allegedly pay insufficient attention to the advantages of retracing. The company tried to apologize, but many reviewers found such a precedent outrageous.

Versions of Cyberpunk 2077 for consoles of the last generation left many players disappointed. Four days after the CD release, Projekt RED decided to apologize for the unsuccessful launch and offered gamers two options: wait for patches or hand over the game.

Director J. J. Abrams (J. J. Abrams) does not give up trying to do games. His film studio Bad Robot Productions has already formed a second gaming division. The place of the head went to Michael Booth, the leading game designer of Left 4 Dead.

While Sony and Microsoft were launching a new generation of consoles, Nintendo was successfully selling its “old” console. November Switch sales were higher than any other consoles in the US market.

On the night of December 10-11, the game analogue of the Oscar was held — The Game Awards 2020. In addition to the awards itself, it also hosted a number of announcements and debut screenings of gameplay for the expected games. We have made a selection of the brightest projects from the event.

The large-scale show The Game Awards 2020 took place this night. It traditionally celebrates the best games of the year. This year, the largest number of awards — six statuettes at once — went to The Last of Us Part II. Also, two received Among Us and Hades at once.

Testing of new sections of the store has started on Steam. Now the entire catalog of games is divided into 63 categories — both genre and special, like adult-only content. All this is designed to simplify the search process and make it more flexible.The updated categories became available today as part of a new experiment in Steam Labs.

MicroProse publisher, which released the first two parts of Civilization, announced a strategic partnership with the owners of the Russian engine UNIGINE. It is on this engine that the company’s new titles will be developed.