The Xbox Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming service has become officially available on consoles. Xbox users will now be able to play games from the Game Pass library without installing them on their hard drive. Russia, however, is not yet on the list of supported countries.Microsoft announced the launch of Cloud Gaming on the official Xbox blog.

Epic Games is one of the first gaming companies to announce its ambitions to create a metaverse. The other day, its head, Tim Sweeney, noted that these plans were partly the reason for his confrontation with Apple and Google.

Jim Ryan, who heads PlayStation, criticized Activision Blizzard amid the latest accusations against the publisher. He believes that the company is not doing enough to improve the situation. Meanwhile, Activision’s management continues to support Bobby Kotick and tries to calm down disgruntled employees. Reaction of the head of PlayStation

A group of investors who own less than a percent of Activision Blizzard‘s shares called for the removal of Bobby Kotick from the post of CEO of the company. In addition, they opposed two members of the board.

Jen Oneal, who held the post of Blizzard co-CEO until November, said that she was offered an equal salary with another co-CEO, Mike Ybarra, only after she made decisions to leave the company. Before that, she had been refused a salary increase several times.

Last October, Meta (formerly Facebook) released a new VR headset – Oculus Quest 2. Since that time, 10 million people have bought the device.

Chinese players have complained about the facial expressions of female characters in the mobile Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. Allegedly, they look too provocative and have obvious sexual overtones. NetEase has already apologized for the situation and explained the cause of the problem.Examples of facial expressions of female characters in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened

The freeplay battler Hero Wars (also known in Russia as “Chronicles of Chaos“) has reached a significant figure. The title, developed by a team with Russian roots, collected its first billion dollars.

In the near future, the Chinese regulator will again issue licenses to online games. He hasn’t done it in four months. Against the background of such news, the shares of local giants Tencent and NetEase increased in price.

The publisher of Hero Wars summed up the quarterly results. In July-September, its revenue amounted to $115 million. This is a record figure for Nexters. Previously, the company did not earn so much in three months.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published a big investigation about the situation inside Activision Blizzard. It is alleged that Bobby Kotick hid information about harassment for years and once threatened to kill one of the employees himself. The board of directors sided with him, but the company’s shares fell to the lowest in more than a year.

Embracer Group has published a report for the second fiscal quarter of 2021 (ended September 30). During this period, the Swedish holding managed to almost double the revenue from gaming sales and significantly increase profits. The company also shared plans for new M&A deals.

The French studio Million Victories, which developed the mobile strategy of Million Lords, closed the Series A funding round. The company received an amount of $ 3 million. The round was led by the Griffin Gaming Partners venture fund.

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NetEase’s gaming revenue for the third quarter (ended September 30) was $2.5 billion. This is a record figure for a Chinese company. Not the least role in this was played by the successful launches of Naraka: Bladepoint and Harry Potter: Magic Awakened.Naraka: Bladepoint

Epic Games has made a new accusation against Google. She said that in 2018, the corporation was seriously concerned about the developer’s plans to release Fortnite on Android bypassing Google Play. So much so that she created a working group that was supposed to prevent this.

A few days ago, a number of mobile publishers accused Apple of secretly buying Google ads for selected applications. The company allegedly does this to increase its revenue from subscriptions. Apple claims that all such campaigns were coordinated with the developers and do not violate the rules of the App Store.What happened?

Yesterday, Microsoft, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Xbox and the Halo franchise, opened access to the free-play beta of the Halo Infinite multiplayer — three weeks earlier than planned. In the first hours after the release of the game, its online on Steam exceeded 270 thousand people.

The Chinese giant Tencent decided to support developers from Russia. The holding invested in Beryoski, a new studio that was opened by the authors of the tactical RTS “Partisans 1941”. The size and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.