Analysts believe in the near and bright future of subscription services. According to DFC Intelligence, it is thanks to them that the PC and console games market is waiting for growth by the end of this year.

Quebec, one of the provinces of Canada, has greatly lost its attractiveness in the eyes of the gaming industry workers. The new law on the French language, which recently came into force here, is to blame for this.

It became known from the Chinese media about Giant Network‘s plans to get rid of a quarter of Playtika‘s assets. The company is selling 106 million shares of the studio to Joffre Capital Group.

The announcement of the I Am Future game at two international online b2c events provided a serious increase in the subscribers of the project on Steam. During the week, their number increased from 500 to 2500 people.

Three former Supercell leads, previously responsible for the development of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, have launched their own gaming startup. It’s called Bit Odd.

Things are going well at Axlebolt studio. Downloads of their blockbuster Standoff 2 on Google Play have reached 100 million, with total downloads hitting 200 million.

Anton Gorelkin, a State Duma deputy and deputy chairman of the Information Policy Committee, noted in his Telegram that today “it is urgently necessary to create your own game engine.”

In June, a resident of Yekaterinburg, Andrey Kirsanov, appeared in court on charges of creating cheats that damaged the developers of World of Tanks by 670 million rubles. The results of the proceedings became known today.

Our colleagues from GamesIndustry have released material dedicated to the tenth anniversary of one of the most successful and iconic farms on the mobile market — Hay Day. We share a brief squeeze of the material.

It will be about news that, if it concerned someone from Russia, would hardly have aroused much interest. The CEO, co-founder of the Shanghai gaming company XD and owner of a fortune of $ 1.2 billion Huang Imang is preparing to move to live from China to another country.

Valve is not only satisfied with the sales of its gaming PC, but was also able to adjust and accelerate its production after freezing the process in early June.

About this, with reference to the words of Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), writes the Kommersant newspaper, which also revealed the budget of the entire game in its entirety.

Sources of the Belarusian edition dev.by assure that there are major cuts in Playgendary. The company denies significant one-time layoffs.

Digital Bros is consolidating the rights to the Puzzle Quest franchise in its hands. Now, in addition to Infinity Plus Two, D3 Go is in its assets.

Over the weekend, the story spread that Cyberpunk 2077 came out raw due to an unscrupulous QA contractor, Quantic Labs. They say that she did a bad job with testing the game, deceived the leadership of the Polish studio and, in general, let the developers down.

Another Russian studio has announced cuts. Moscow Tipping Point, which worked on the Mech Invasion geolocation battler, has been disbanded. At least 21 people will lose their jobs.

A post about the company’s volunteer culture has appeared on the website of the Yakut developer Fntastic. It also offers to help the company with translation and the community on a non-commercial basis.

There was information that at one time Activision Blizzard was negotiating the purchase of Dota 2. The deal did not take place. One of the reasons is that the parties did not agree on the price.

Despite the fact that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have services that open subscription access to games, there is no need to talk about a high level of penetration of the service even in Japan.