Big Run Studios, specializing in casual mobile games, raised $5.25 million. The seed round was led by Transcend Fund, and Galaxy Interactive was the other investor.Thanks to the investments received, the California studio will be able to release a new Big Cooking game soon.

Access to Mixer from Ubisoft Animation Studio has appeared on the GitHub portal. This is a free real-time collaboration tool for the 3D Blender editor.

Already this week, hundreds of Blizzard Entertainment employees will present an appeal to the studio’s management in order to improve working conditions, Bloomberg reports, citing people involved in the initiative.Among the main requirements: change the system of promotions, increase vacations and raise salaries for support staff and testers.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout from Mediatonic launched on August 4 on PC and PS4. In the first day, it received 1.5 million players and 520 thousand simultaneous views on Twitch. The developers were not ready for such a success.

By the end of July App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

After the free Battle royale attracted 75 million players, the company decided to continue its integration with future projects. It is with the help of Warzone that it is planned to announce and promote the new part of the series.In the financial report, Activision Blizzard reported record figures for the second quarter of 2020.

A table in which Blizzard employees shared their salaries was publicly available. Now the document contains information about almost 400 specialists.

Ubisoft has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Parsec, which allows “playing in the cloud”. This could be the beginning of the French publisher’s competition with projects like Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now.

The company’s financial report notes the unprecedented success of the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises. The publisher’s revenues for the second quarter approached $2 billion.On August 4, Activision Blizzard published a report for the second fiscal quarter of 2020 (April-June).

Developer Andy Himself plans to release his new project with roguelike elements next year. While you can watch the first gameplay trailer.

Quantic Dream brought the sales of Detroit: Become Human to 5 million copies only after the release on Steam. More than two years have passed since the original release of the project.

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The store will become much faster and safer. The beta version for Xbox Insider program participants will be available on August 5.

In the summer, scandals related to harassment in the gaming industry broke out with renewed vigor. Against the background of these events, activist and founder of Feminist Frequency Anita Sargsyan launched an emotional support hotline.

In the first fiscal quarter, 87% of sales were provided by Digit, and the most successful titles of the publishing house were GTA V and GTA Online.Take-Two has published a report for the first fiscal quarter, which ended in June this year.

It became known from the Bloomberg material that some employees had to make ends meet and save on lunches, while top managers received millions in compensation.Journalist Jason Schreier studied a table that was created by one of Blizzard’s employees after numerous complaints in a work chat in Slack.

A month ago, Take-Two announced that the NBA 2K21 game would cost $10 more for the Xbox Series X and PS5. Not all publishers approve of this approach, but the head of the company has his own opinion.

Back in February, Clipwire Games entered into a strategic partnership with the marketing company AppLovin. Then the indie developer reported that the partnership with AppLovin would increase its growth rate.

According to analysts, worldwide users have spent $36.8 billion on mobile games. The increase is observed in almost all categories and is largely related to the pandemic and quarantine measures.The analytical company Sensor Tower has published a study of the mobile games market for the first two quarters of 2020.