Jason Schreier, who wrote the bestseller “Blood, Sweat and Pixels”, presented his next work about the gaming industry — “PRESS RESET: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry”. Now he will tell you what happens to developers after the studios are closed.

Game installations of the mobile publisher BoomBit began to grow after the reorientation to the hyper-casual market. Now the number of downloads of the company’s projects has exceeded 800 million.In the first nine months of 2020, BoomBit games were downloaded 164 million times, which is 230% more than the same figures last year.

Ubisoft continues to rebrand. Now the company is renaming Uplay+ to Ubisoft+ and making it a multiplatform service. Already on November 10, Ubisoft+ will be integrated into Amazon Luna, and a little later into Google Stadia.

Developer and publisher Wargaming has closed the R&D division. Information about this in the letter App2Top.ru the company’s press service confirmed.

After allegations of harassment, Chris Avellone was suspended from working on several projects, including Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Now one of the girls who denounced the famous game designer has become the leading narrative designer of the game.Samantha Wallschlaeger, who previously worked at Monolith and Bioware studios, announced her appointment on her personal Twitter.

Another price increase. Apple has warned about plans to increase the price tags for applications in several countries at once, including Russia.

Facebook is entering the cloud gaming market. The company has launched its own free service focused not on AAA projects, but mainly on mobile games. At the same time, due to Apple restrictions, iOS users will be deprived of this feature.The launch of the cloud service was announced by Jason Rubin, Facebook’s vice president for games and co-founder of Naughty Dog studio.

Valve may be preparing to merge the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If this happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (now only dozens of foreign titles are licensed per year).Prerequisites for the merger and possible consequences

Streamers should deduct part of their revenue to the developers of the games they broadcast, according to Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Stadia Games and Entertainment. His statement provoked thousands of angry comments, and Google representatives hastily disavowed his statements.How did it all start?

German InnoGames has come up with an original way to embed advertising in their games. For three weeks, Elvenar characters will use MAC cosmetics. At the same time, representatives of MAC Cosmetics will tell their audience how to create an image in the style of Elvenar.

Electronic Arts is once again accused of using loot boxes. This time the case is taking place in Canada, where two citizens saw a violation of the local criminal code in the actions of the company.

Exactly one week later, Ubisoft Club and Uplay services will become a single application — Ubisoft Connect. Crossplay and crossprogression will appear in it.

Former developers of StarCraft 2 and WarCraft 3 have founded a studio that will create real-time strategies. They have already raised $4.7 million, including from Riot Games.

Cliff Bleszinski, known for his work on the Unreal and Gears of War series, analyzed the failure of the Boss Key studio he created. Now the game designer wants to return to the industry, inspired by the success of small games like Among Us and Fall Guys.Blesinski is working on a memoir about his career, which spans 20 years at Epic Games and work on the company’s classic titles.

A month after the announcement, the Luna cloud gaming service became available to a limited number of users. So far, you can enter the platform only by invitation, and play only in the titles of the main channel.

Since the beginning of the protests, about 1,200 IT specialists have moved from Belarus to Ukraine. Another 800 left for Poland. And this flow is growing. Sergey Bruy, co-founder and managing director of the Belarusian Vizor Games, believes that “the picture is sad“, but additional challenges can benefit Belarusians.

The new Oculus Quest 2 VR headset does not support games for Oculus Go. We are talking about 66 titles, some of which were significant for the platform. For example, Land’s End from Ustwo Games.

Yesterday, there was widespread talk in the Russian-speaking environment about changes in Apple’s rules concerning the image of weapons in games. The company made a number of clarifications back in September 2019, but until recently they did not receive proper publicity.Now on the Apple website there is a detailed list of criteria for the image of firearms in the materials of games in the App Store.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is not sure that the company should maintain a partnership with Nintendo. The placement of titles on the Switch console is under threat. But things could still change if a Japanese corporation agrees to support the Xbox Game Pass.