The Halo: Master Chief Collection attracted 3 million people in the release week. This is the total audience on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, where the first game of the collection was released — Halo: Reach.

SuperData has launched a business intelligence platform called XR Market Intelligence. It tracks the state of the augmented reality market. The platform is useful, including publishers and developers, as well as investors.

Natives of the World of Tanks Blitz development team have launched their first project. This is a mobile shooter. It was created on the original technical basis and published without the participation of Wargaming.

Gameloft has once again become a partner in the field of cloud gaming. She announced a streaming service together with Blacknut.

Now the French publisher Voodoo has a studio in the UK. We are talking about buying a mobile studio Gumbug.

We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Anton Buchelnikov, CEO of the analytical service Apptica. He spoke about the events in the mobile advertising market.

The deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vasily Vlasov proposed to create a fund for financing game development. According to him, the state should encourage the creation of domestic AAA games.

We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Vasily Sabirov, a leading analyst and co-founder of the devtodev analytical service. He spoke about the company’s achievements in the outgoing year and shared plans for 2020.

Publisher Tropico will open its third studio. She will be engaged in a new project on IP Commandos.

The organizers of White Nights shared the program of the winter session. EA DICE, Square Enix, SEGA, Paradox Interactive, Super Evil Megacorp and many others will perform at the conference, which is a month and a half away.

GOSU startup.The AI of Alice Chumachenko, a former top manager of Game Insight, has closed a new round of funding. A group of investors invested $2.8 million in it.

Wanted: a game designer in Deus Craft, a 2D artist in Plarium and a backend developer in MyTona.

We continue to summarize the results of 2019 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Evgeny Polotnyanko, the head of the Odnoklassniki social network gaming platform.

A new version of the Unreal Engine — 4.24 has been released. The functions of Unreal Studio, a tool for working with graphics, have been integrated into it. The software itself is no longer available.

In early December, Playrix announced that it had spent $100 million on the purchase of game studios in 2019. One of the acquired companies was Serbian. Today it officially became known who exactly in Serbia was bought by the gaming colossus.

Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.

2019 is coming to an end. Time for our annual publication series “Results of the Year“. In it, we ask the heads of gaming companies and market experts how the last 12 months have passed for them. This time the column starts with an interview with Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki. He told, among other things, which games the company is preparing for release.

The Chinese publisher iDreamSky has conceived a major deal. The partner of the Russian MY.GAMES agrees to purchase the group of companies Leyou Technologies Holdings Ltd. for $1.4 billion.

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new game studio. It’s called Cloud Chambers and is working on the next game in the BioShock series.