Yesterday it became known that Vicarious Visions (the authors of the successful remakes of Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater) became part of Blizzard. The studio was reorganized and assigned to work on a remake of Diablo II.

Nintendo Switch is changing the console market in the same way as the Wii did at the time, analysts at Interpret believe. She captivated an audience with games that had not been interested in them before. We are talking about people aged 45-65 years.

Free prologues on Steam can be a good marketing tool to promote the game before release. Gaming expert Simon Carless analyzed their impact on sales and adding to vishlists, describing successful and failed cases.

Chinese industrial giant Tencent is going to acquire another major asset. The network started talking that Take Two Interactive, Electronic Arts or Zynga can join the ranks of the company. The latter is called most often.

Wargaming still fails to advance in litigation with indie studio Press Fire Games (formerly known as BlitzTeam). Now the lawsuit against the former employees of the corporation was rejected by the District Court of California.

Analytical company Niko Partners told about the key events and trends of last year in the Asian mobile games market. Among them are a record number of Tencent investment deals, the growth of esports and increased interest in Genshin Impact.Genshin Impact is the most popular streaming game in China

Wanted: HR business partner at Belka Games, 3D animator at Zefir Games, motion designer at Liniad and project manager at Playkot.

Another brand decided to associate its name with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Next in line is the cosmetic brand Colorpop, which has released a makeup collection based on the game.

Capcom expects to earn $889 million by the end of the fiscal year (April 1, 2020 — March 31, 2021). Earlier, the amount was a little more modest, but now the company has updated its forecast.For the first time, Capcom presented a forecast of its consolidated earnings for the fiscal year last October.

The European Commission considered that Valve’s actions to link games to regions violate the antitrust legislation of the European Union. Together with her, five other publishers were fined for a total of almost €8 million. Valve plans to challenge the injunction.The fine was imposed based on the results of an investigation that began seven years ago.

Creative director of Xsolla Andrey Podshibyakin has finished work on the book “Igrozhur”, which he began writing 17 years ago. It will go on sale in two months.

Activision Blizzard quotes have reached record levels. Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of one share of the company managed to overcome the $95.08 milestone for the first time in 37 years.

Rumors have been confirmed that it was Opera that acquired the GameMaker company YoYo Games from Playtech for $ 10 million. At the same time, the browser developers launched a gaming division — Opera Gaming.

The music label Materia Collective, specializing in game soundtracks, was at the center of the scandal. The composer of B-sides* for Celeste stated that the company has not paid him royalties for almost two years. At least eight other people have joined the prosecution.

Motorsport Games, which develops racing games under a NASCAR license, has entered the stock market. At the start, the company raised $ 69 million, and its market capitalization was estimated at $ 510 million.On the first day of trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange, Motorsport Games shares increased in price by 50% — from $20 to $ 30.

MAG Interactive presented a report for the first fiscal quarter (September-November 2020). During this period, the authors of the QuizDuel verbal quiz earned $7.5 million and increased ARPDAU by almost half.General data

Unexpected news. In the city on the Neva River, on the basis of the Plamee studio, the daughter of an American game publisher — Tilting Point will appear. Now there is a search for employees.

Hitman 3 was released today, and the profile press was delighted with it. Journalists praise IO Interactive for its detailed levels and variability, and some call the project the best game about Agent 47. Now the average score of Hitman 3 on Metacritic is 88/100.About the game

Bohemia Interactive talked about its successes in 2020. In the report, Czech developers mostly went through old and new projects, and also revealed plans for this year.