During the PlayStation 5 Showcase, Sony released information about how much the console will cost and when it will be released.

Apple has responded to Epic Games’ lawsuit with a new 37-page document. The company believes that the Fortnite developers themselves “lit a fire and splashed gasoline into it,” and started the trial as a PR campaign.In its appeal, Apple insists that the current situation was the fault of Epic itself.

IKEA and Asus ROG have announced the production of special furniture for gamers. The model range will include 30 items. They will first go on sale in China, and even there not earlier than next year.The main focus in the IKEA gaming line will be on accessibility and ergonomics.

The Chinese company ByteDance is mainly engaged in social networks (TikTok, Douyin, Helo). But back in January, she began to strengthen her position in the gaming industry. Now ByteDance continues to follow the set course. Recently, the company has opened almost a thousand vacancies for its gaming division.

A free online event on the legal aspects of the gaming business will be held on October 6-7. It’s called the Game Industry Legal Conference. The other day, the organizers of the event published its program.

The creators of Zwift, an online fitness platform that creates a virtual world for runners and cyclists, have raised an impressive $450 million. One of the investors is the CEO of Supercell.

New Day — new records Among Us. The total number of downloads of the game on mobile devices reached 86.6 million. At the same time, almost half of them occurred in the last two weeks.Sensor Tower analyzed statistics Among Us on mobile platforms, where it is distributed for free.

Embracer Group continues to buy studios. Today, the Swedish holding company announced the acquisition of the Dutch developer of VR games Vertigo Games. The transaction amount was €50 million.The purchase was made through a subsidiary of Koch Media.

Today Apple is launching iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 in the world release, and since yesterday developers have been able to submit iOS programs developed using Xcode 12 and the SDK of the new operating system for review. Very soon, such an approach will become the only possible option for a submit.

Newzoo together with PayPal conducted a study of the European esports market. It is expected that the number of women in the industry will continue to grow, and the total audience of esports will exceed 90 million people by the end of the year.

After a series of closures, the French publisher Gameloft made a major purchase. The Other Guys studio, which released the visual novels Linda Brown and Journeys, passed into his hands.

Ubisoft has faced a patent complaint from the manufacturer of energy Monster Energy. This is what influenced the company’s decision to change the name of the game Gods & Monsters to the less sonorous Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

3D developer Maxon won Epic MegaGrant in the amount of $ 200 thousand. The funds will be used to strengthen the integration between Unreal Engine and Cinema 4D.

Among Us continues to set records. The indie project has risen to the eighth place in the list of the most popular games in the history of Steam, beating such hits as GTA V and Destiny 2.According to the GitHyp portal, on September 12, Among Us broke the mark of 304,325 simultaneous players on Steam.

A couple of days before the official announcement, details about the new Oculus VR glasses leaked onto the Internet. Apparently, Oculus Quest 2 will receive a Snapdragon XR2 chip from Qualcomm and a resolution of “almost 2K for each eye.”

The remake of the first two parts of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series has reached the mark of 1 million copies sold. It took the game less than two weeks to do this.As Activision Blizzard notes, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 set a record.

Electronic Arts will continue to rebrand and this time will take up updating the Origin store. The new desktop application will be called EA Desktop and will become a “new generation PC gaming platform”.

In August, American players spent $3.3 billion on games, hardware and accessories. The growth in annual terms was almost 40%, and the best-selling game of the month in the USA was Madden NFL 21.The report on the situation in American was prepared by The NPD Group, and the main data was shared by analyst Mat Piscatella.

The online event “Gamedev HR Awards 2020” will take place tomorrow at 12.00. It is dedicated to achievements in the field of personnel management in the gaming industry. The participants of the event will present and defend their implemented HR projects.