The authors of Star Citizen continue to raise money for their cosmosim. On August 24, they hosted a dinner for backers who had invested at least $1,000 in the project. Nuance: the guests paid $275 for admission.

Finalists of the largest esports tournaments win record amounts this year. Both the Fortnite World Cup champion and the winners of The International earned more Wimbledon stars.

Ice-Pick Lodge acknowledged that the remake of “Pestilence. Utopias” turned out to be a commercially unsuccessful project.

One of the first Epic Games Store exclusives will be available on Steam by the end of the year. This is a Hades bagel from the authors of Transistor.

California-based mobile publisher Scopely will increase its staff in Barcelona and Dublin. The company will expand its offices in these cities after its The Walking Dead: Road to Survival raised $100 million in investments.

Ubisoft believes that now is the best time to develop new IP. This is due to future new consoles, and the development of cross-platform.

The Google Play store tried on a new design. With it, the findability of games and applications is simplified.

In September, Apple planned to introduce new rules for children’s games and applications. But now the company has to postpone them.

China is actively preparing a local version of the Valve store. A line of games for Steam China was announced today.

Steam has allowed the publication of adult games for good reason. In the top 20 of the most profitable novelties of the store for the past month, two hentai games appeared at once.

The possible price for a subscription in the Apple Arcade service has been named. According to 9to5Mac, monthly access will cost the player $4.99.

The audience of the Dauntless frituplein exceeded 14 million players. Moreover, 11 million joined it in less than three months.

The platform with adult games — Nutaku — has almost doubled in a year. Users have registered about 40 million accounts in it.

And a little more about the loot boxes. China is gradually introducing a daily limit on their purchase.

The coveted title of the second largest geolocation game on iOS was unexpectedly snatched by Let’s Hunt Monsters from Tencent. Since April, the game has earned $50 million.

Insomniac Games is now under the wing of Sony. The publisher announced the purchase of the authors of several exclusive games for his console.

Screenshots of the new Apple Arcade subscription service have leaked to the network. Recall that this is a future new section of the App Store with premium exclusives without ads and microtransactions.

It seems that the loot boxes have seriously damaged the reputation of Apex Legends and Respawn personally. The studio was criticized for the fact that cosmetics in the new event fell out only from boxes with loot.

Last week, two leading producers — old-timers of the studio – left BioWare at once. One of them was working on Anthem, the other was working on the future Dragon Age 4.