After Fortnite was turned off for two days, its income in the App Store grew seriously. A day after the new update “Chapter 2”, she earned 141% more on iOS than before it.

French Madbox has closed the first round of financing. The startup, whose mobile games have gained 100 million instals, managed to attract $16.5 million.

On October 16-17, the White Nights conference was held in Moscow. During these two days, 1,500 participants visited it — 200 more people than a year earlier.

The Russian studio Owlcat Games has announced its independence. Previously, it was among the internal studios of MY.GAMES, a gaming brand Mail.Ru Group.

A Chinese user left $ 150 thousand in the game developer Space Ape Games. In this regard, the studio explained its approach to monetization of titles.

Blizzard has banned three more Hearthstone players. Last week, they called for a boycott of the company during a student tournament on this game.

In Germany, the process of blocking Coin Master slots has begun. The famous satirist attracted the attention of the German authorities to the project and its monetization system.

Google closed the Daydream project and stopped selling the Daydream View helmet. This VR platform for Android devices has not been successful among developers and ordinary users.

Google has announced the launch date of its cloud service Stadia. It will work on November 19. The first to get access to it will be the owners of bundles purchased by pre-orders.

Japanese Capcom is ready to cut the gachi mechanics in its mobile games. The company took into account the concerns of the audience, which concerns the loot boxes.

League of Legends turned 10 years old. In honor of this, Riot Games unexpectedly introduced new projects. For the first time, the studio decided not only to expand the LoL franchise, but also to try a new IP.

Wanted: Unity is a Middle-level developer at Gismart, a leading brand designer at Playgendary and a mechanic specialist at Friday’s Games.

Today, October 16, the White Nights gaming business conference began in Moscow. It is expected that more than 1300 participants will visit it in two days.

Fortnite was unavailable to players for two days. In such an original way, Epic Games furnished the largest update of the battle royale – “Fortnite: Chapter 2”. At the same time, the number of mechanics has expanded and the battle pass system has changed.

Playrix software company is launching its new project — Manor Matters. This is a hidden object game.

Russian social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte named the winners of the Games Cup 2019. This is a tournament for HTML5 game developers. A number of finalists were selected among pro developers and newcomers.

Tomorrow in New York, the presentation of the Switch version of Overwatch was to take place in a specialized Nintendo store. However, Blizzard canceled the event. It happened after the scandalous events of last week.

The lead producer of Halo Infinite has left 343 Industries. She has been in this position for no more than two months. In addition, this is the second dismissal from the project managers in recent months.

The restructuring at Starbreeze will lead to the creation of two new companies. They will be given the remaining assets and employees that are related to the publisher’s core business.