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.

Passion for sports affects the gaming preferences of gamers from South Africa, – writes Newzoo in the latest study. Four of the five most popular games are competitive.

Negotiations with the parent company ByteDance should be completed by mid-September.Microsoft will return to negotiations with the Chinese company ByteDance on the purchase of TikTok in the United States.

By 2020, digital copies have become more in demand in console retail. Major publishers now sell more digital than disc versions.

PC games, which used to dominate in these countries, began to give way to mobile, according to Niko Partners. Over the past two years, mobile games revenue has grown by $135 million, and PC games – by $35 million.

The annual turnover of the Arab Emirates gaming market is $283 million. Half of this amount is accounted for by mobile, — the analytical company Newzoo reports in the latest study.

In early July, the GMTK Game Jam was held, where 5,400 teams competed in creating games. According to the survey results, most of the participants used the Unity engine. But there is a caveat – two-thirds of the best games are made on GameMaker.

On July 31, the ChinaJoy Gaming Exhibition and Conference opened in China. One of the directors of the Propaganda Department spoke at it. He outlined how the situation with the gaming market in the country looks from the point of view of the Chinese government.

Seasonal sales growth and coronavirus have made June a fruitful month for the gaming industry, SuperData reports in a recent review. It brought in 3% more revenue than May ($10.2 billion) and 9% more than last year’s June ($9.6 billion).

Publisher Electronic Arts summed up the financial results for April-June. The period turned out to be very successful for the company. One of the main drivers of growth was the PC games market.

Developers of games for Odnoklassniki now do not need to resort to myTarget for promotion. The social network has launched an internal advertising cabinet for setting up UA campaigns for gaming products.

Former top manager of the marketing companies Yeahmobi and glispa Michael Levin launched Betastage Capital. This is a venture fund that is ready to invest in mobile games from $ 50 thousand to $ 1 million.

While Epic Games is investing in Blender, Autodesk has reduced the cost of Maya and 3ds Max packages for indie studios by 6 times.