Publisher Tropico will open its third studio. She will be engaged in a new project on IP Commandos.

A new version of the Unreal Engine — 4.24 has been released. The functions of Unreal Studio, a tool for working with graphics, have been integrated into it. The software itself is no longer available.

Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new game studio. It’s called Cloud Chambers and is working on the next game in the BioShock series.

Qualcomm Tech Summit ended last week. Within its framework, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Niantic and PUBG Corp. The company works with each of them separately on projects in the gaming field.

Adobe has bought the Oculus Medium VR app. This is a step towards the company’s creation of a new line of 3D tools.

The appearance of the Halo series on Steam caused a stir among desktop gamers. Sales of the PC-collection Halo: Master Chief Collection to date — more than 1 million copies.

Riot Games has created a separate publishing label — Riot Forge. Games from third-party developers will start coming out under it.

NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.

Gameloft has closed another studio. This time — the British Gameloft UK.

Yesterday, December 4, the open beta testing of the MY.GAMES Store distribution platform started. It was announced in August.

The unauthorized departure of the Human Head developers from the publisher led to a lawsuit. Publisher Ragnarok Game accused the now defunct studio of fraud and unfair business conduct.

Of the 20 most downloaded games of the year, 14 are hyper-casual. Including Polysphere. The development of the Belarusian Playgendary turned out to be in sixth place in the world by downloads from the App Store at the end of the year.

Google Corporation summed up the results of the year. The company told which mobile games it considers the best in the outgoing year.

By the end of November App2Top.ru Together with DataMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

The release of Stadia turned out to be one of the most disastrous launches in the history of gaming platforms. This is what representatives of the analytical firm DFC Intelligence think.

Respawn Entertainment can open champagne. Electronic Arts (EA) said that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order showed one of the best sales starts among all the games based on “Star Wars“.

Since September, Electronic Arts (EA) has been testing its own cloud gaming platform. It is called Project Atlas and is not going to compete for an audience with similar solutions from Google and Microsoft.

Valve has started cleaning Steam. Over the past day, the company has removed 982 games from the store’s pages. The official reason is the abuse of Steamworks tools by developers.