Shawn Layden said on LinkedIn that he has been working with the Chinese giant since August. He advises Tencent‘s gaming division, helping it develop in an industry to which Leyden “devoted most of his career.”

The figure was named by Sensor Tower analysts. They looked at the performance of the game from the release date (September 28, 2020) to August 2022.

Last week, the authors Alan Wake and Control officially announced the opening of the first foreign office. It is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

The PUBG Battle Royale will be blocked in Afghanistan (TikTok social network will also be banned). This statement was made by the Ministry of Telecommunications of the country. Recall that for the last year it has been headed by the Taliban terrorist group banned in Russia.

A letter confirming the leak was published on the official Twitter account of Rockstar Games.

A new gaming company has appeared in Yakutia. It’s called Rubedo Games. Most of the team consists of former MYTONA employees. The release of her first game — a two—dimensional “bagel” – is scheduled for next year.

The morning publication in Vedomosti touched a nerve with many. It noted that, perhaps, companies such as Playrix and Wargaming will place their products in VK Play. However, the expert who suggested this is clearly not very deeply immersed in the topic.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Azur Games announced the sale of shares in studios located in Russia (as well as Belarus). The official reason: the desire to focus on other markets.

The creators of GTA VI have not yet commented on the leak, however, at their request, the GTAForums administration removed the merged materials and all links. A number of YouTube videos have also disappeared.

The officials asked the court for 10 minutes so that they could make a speech. The ministry stressed that they do not support any of the companies, but do not agree with how the court interpreted the antimonopoly legislation earlier.

This morning Vedomosti reported that by the end of the year Owlcat Games will become one of the partners of the VK Play platform. Now the studio has shared its official position.

As the mobile publisher hopes, with the help of the museum it will be possible not only to preserve the legacy of the industry, but also to pay tribute to the culture of video games.

On September 14, Polish DRAGO Entertainment released a kitchen simulator on wheels on Steam. According to the developers, after 54 hours they recouped the cost of creating the game, amounting to 950 thousand zlotys or $ 200.8 thousand.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to sources close to the company, VK is ready to spend up to $ 10 million so that its platform competes more successfully with Steam and Epic Games Store in Russia and the CIS.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 37th week of the year.

Gameplay videos and part of the GTA VI code surfaced online, the US authorities allocated almost $ 700,000 to research methods of recruiting terrorists and extremists in online games, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The creators of Adopt Me closed access to their project on September 13. According to the developers, they did this “as part of the Roblox program to comply with the laws of the Netherlands and Belgium.” Let us remind you that loot boxes are prohibited in these countries.

Sensor Tower and Homa Games looked at how things are going with the so-called arcade idlers (arcade idle). This is a young subgenre of hyper-casual games in which low-poly little men collect resources.

Sensor Tower has published a detailed report on the situation with mobile games. We share facts from it.