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.

CD Projekt management told investors that they are not afraid of competition from Half-Life: Alyx. It also expressed doubt about the possibility of building a good business on VR games.

The St. Petersburg space for novice developers “Indicator” is being liquidated. This was stated by its founder Sergey Gimelreich on his Facebook page.

The Valve Index headset is in great demand after the announcement of the new Half-Life. In the new chart of the best-selling Steam products, the VR helmet was on the second line.

Google Stadia is clearly not the best platform for multiplayer games right now. MAU Destiny 2 has 9.9 thousand players on it.

Blizzard and NetEase won a plagiarism case by 4399 Network. The latter is a Chinese publisher who released MOBA Heroes of Warfare.

Studio Dream Games, founded by ex-developers Peak Games, closed the first round of funding. She received $7.5 million to develop mobile puzzles.

Minsk—based Melsoft has launched its own farm – Family Island. It has been in development for more than three years.