The Gearbox team was deprived of bonuses in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Studio employees were promised huge payments after the release of Borderlands 3. The day before yesterday, these payments were canceled, and the dissatisfied were offered to quit.

Terraria has sold 30 million copies in 9 years. This was announced by the indie developer Re-Logic on the official forum of the project. The last 10 million copies were sold in 3 years.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord continues to be in the spotlight. Steam sales of the game ranged from 2 to 5 million copies on the third day after the launch of the project in early access.

Game developers from Hamburg have a chance to receive a grant for the creation of a game prototype. Gamecity Group:Hamburg, with the support of the authorities, is ready to invest up to 80 thousand euros in various projects.

GameRefinery company specializes in the analysis of mobile games. The other day, she published a report on the state of affairs in the American RPG market. There are a lot of unaccounted-for nuances in it.

Wanted: Game analyst at Playrix, UI designer at Deus Craft and game designer at DataVision Studio.

Kaspersky Lab wants to invest in gaming technologies. The antivirus corporation announced this on its official website. She is not interested in direct game development. However, it will at least invest in services designed to protect developers and players.

Rockstar Games has joined the fight against the coronavirus, and it has serious intentions. From April 1 to May 31, the company will donate 5% of GTA Online and Red Dead Online revenue for the treatment of patients.

In countries where a state of emergency was imposed due to the threat of coronavirus, the DAU of mobile games and their downloads have grown, the ironSource advertising platform reports.

The debut of Teamfight Tactics was the largest in the genre of autobattlers. Riot Games installations exceeded 4.5 million. In addition, she earns well. Her income for two weeks was $ 1.2 million.

Playgendary has become another gaming company donating to the fight against coronavirus. The publisher transferred $38 thousand to the Republican Center for the Organization of Medical Response. The Center has opened a special account for the treatment of coronavirus patients in Belarus.

Appsflyer has presented a report on the state of affairs in the mobile advertising market for the second half of 2019. One of the central conclusions for the industry is that the triumvirate of ironSource, Unity Ads and AppLovin has an increasingly important role in promoting games.

Publisher tinyBuild develops the Hello Neighbor universe in book prequels. A total of four books have been published by Carly Anne West. As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, they brought in $16 million in revenue. The total circulation sold was 2 million copies.

The authors of Pokémon GO have acquired a startup 6D.ai for an undisclosed amount. The company bought by Niantic works in the field of augmented reality. She develops a dynamic 3D map of the world using only mobile phone cameras.

On the second day of release (as part of early access), the action role-playing Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord achieved an extremely high online. Now (17:30) 210 thousand people are playing the game at the same time.

In the conditions of coronavirus, gadget manufacturers are no longer up to pre-installations of Russian software. Therefore, the Duma shifts the deadline by six months — to January 1, 2021.

The Japanese publisher Colopl has announced the acquisition of the Tokyo-based game company MAGES., which is mainly engaged in the development of visual novels, and is also a music label.

The coronavirus has dealt a blow to such segments of the gaming industry as production and business development. However, in terms of sales, everything is different. As our colleagues from GamesIndustry report in their research.biz, sales are growing.

After eight years of development, the Turkish game Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord was released for early access. The project was expected. On the first day, the number of users in the game at the same time reached 161 thousand. And the figure is growing.