Rovio Entertainment is unhappy with the work of its licensing business. She will restructure this area. The procedure will affect 32 employees, 20 of them will lose their jobs.

The next console from Sony has received an official name and release date. As expected, it was named PlayStation 5. The novelty will be on the market at the end of 2020.

Google plans to launch a certification program for gaming devices (Gaming Device Certification). The company wants Android-based gaming smartphones to fit the recommended system requirements of games.

Sad news from Wargaming. The Belarusian Gaming Corporation dissolves Wargaming Helsinki after three years of work, and also closes the project on which it worked.

The executive director of Supercell Ilkka Paananen criticized the Finnish migration policy. According to him, because of the bureaucracy, it is difficult for game studios to hire specialists from abroad.

The Outward role-playing game has sold 400 thousand copies in six months. This is much more than the developer studio Nine Dots expected.

The release of the Steam version of Destiny 2 was relatively successful. In seven days, the game appeared in the libraries of 2.97 million Steam users.

Apple has acquired the British startup IKinema. He specializes in motion capture and animation, as well as AR/VR gaming technologies.

Fortnite Battle Royale is created so exciting that it’s a reason to sue Epic Games. This is the opinion of the Canadian law firm Calex Légal. She is preparing a lawsuit against the “epics” in Quebec.

On November 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 will be available on PC. The game was released last year on PS4 and Xbox One, becoming a hit. In less than a year, its sales amounted to 25 million copies.

Last week Epic Games updated the matchmaking system in Fortnite. It caused a number of concerns among the players, and now the company is in a hurry to calm them down in its blog.

The fastest-selling Switch title of this year in Europe was The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. The game was released on the platform on September 20.

The White Nights Gaming business Conference will be held in Moscow on October 16-17. The head of the Berlin office of Voodoo Alex Willink (Alex Willink) will speak at it. Come up with a question for the speaker. For the best — we give you a premium ticket to the conference.

The minor share of the ironSource advertising network was bought for $ 400 million. By the end of the year, the revenue of this platform for the promotion of mobile titles, including, will reach $ 1 billion.

Unity Technologies has its second major purchase in recent times. Its assets include ChilliConnect, a creator of tools for managing online projects.

Minsk studio Vizor is known for builders for social and mobile platforms. Her main hits are “Zombie Farm” and “Klondike”. But now the company is preparing a completely non—standard project for itself – a session MMO for consoles and PCs.

Russian mobile operator Vimpelcom and Nvidia have developed their own solutions for cloud gaming. Both services were introduced today.

It became known which monetization will replace the loot boxes in Rocket League. It is called Blueprints and is associated with crafting items for a new currency.

In the French version of CS:Now there is an “X-ray for loot boxes”, and now users see their contents. You might think that Valve has made a concession to French players, but not everything is so simple.