Polish CD Projekt and writer Andrzej Sapkowski seem to have settled old disputes. The parties have renegotiated the contract on the rights to the Witcher franchise.

SuperData reported for November. According to analysts, gamers spent $9.5 billion on digital platforms last month. This is 7% more than in the same month a year earlier.

Google has announced the purchase of Typhoon Studios. The developer, whose first project will be released in January, will create exclusives for Stadia.

This year Fortnite lost the title of the most popular game on Twitch to League of Legends. For the entire 2019, the hours of views of the Epic Games title decreased by 28%.

Facebook is working on its own operating system. Its creation will allow other social network products not to depend on Android.

A free version of the Buildbox toolkit from AppOnboard has appeared. It is suitable for learning how to develop mobile games without code.

Chinese politics is back in play. NetEase cut an Arsenal football player from a sports title — he criticized the country for creating concentration camps for Uighurs, the national Muslim minority.

Facebook has signed its interest in cloud gaming. It acquired the developer of cloud solutions PlayGiga.

NetEase has applied artificial intelligence to create realistic game avatars. And now MMORPG Justice users can transfer their faces to the game.

Valve Store has published the top of the most profitable new products for the past month. There are 20 projects in total, including indie and AAA.

2019 is coming to an end. We present the final figures of the industry from Gamesindustry.biz .

App Annie analysts have published two charts. In one — the most downloaded games of the last ten years, and in the other — the most profitable. There were no surprises.

Abertay University has opened a new training center. It will teach, among other things, experimental game design.

Newzoo analysts have prepared a list of trends of the outgoing year and a forecast for the next year. There are about subscriptions, money, VR and the cloud.

The most important event for the domestic game dev in recent months has occurred in the related industry. The structures of the oligarch Alexander Mamut launched an attack on a successful IT business, Nginx company.

Microsoft has finally unveiled its next-generation console to the general public. It was called the Xbox Series X. We share the details of the project and the reaction of social networks.

The awarding of the laureates of The Game Awards 2019 ended at night. The game of the year was named Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Call of Duty: Mobile turned out to be the best among mobile games.

The Halo: Master Chief Collection attracted 3 million people in the release week. This is the total audience on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, where the first game of the collection was released — Halo: Reach.

Gameloft has once again become a partner in the field of cloud gaming. She announced a streaming service together with Blacknut.