Valve has started cleaning Steam. Over the past day, the company has removed 982 games from the store’s pages. The official reason is the abuse of Steamworks tools by developers.

CD Projekt management told investors that they are not afraid of competition from Half-Life: Alyx. It also expressed doubt about the possibility of building a good business on VR games.

The St. Petersburg space for novice developers “Indicator” is being liquidated. This was stated by its founder Sergey Gimelreich on his Facebook page.

Investors have started to look closely at cloud playgrounds. The German firm Ringier Digital Ventures, together with a group of investors, invested $ 3 million in AirConsole. The latter allows you to play multiplayer games without installation.

The mobile games market is becoming more transparent. The analytical company GameAnalytics has introduced a new service. It allows you to see what metrics the game should have in order for it to match the top products on the market.

Last Friday, November 22, the analytical company SuperData reported on the financial results of October. She said that over the past month, players spent $8.84 billion on games. We are talking about total spending on the console, desktop and mobile markets in digital retail.

The Valve Index headset is in great demand after the announcement of the new Half-Life. In the new chart of the best-selling Steam products, the VR helmet was on the second line.

Swedish startup Coherence invested $2.5 million. With these funds, he plans to create a cloud platform for online game development.

Google Stadia is clearly not the best platform for multiplayer games right now. MAU Destiny 2 has 9.9 thousand players on it.

Blizzard and NetEase won a plagiarism case by 4399 Network. The latter is a Chinese publisher who released MOBA Heroes of Warfare.

In the third quarter of 2019, users downloaded 11.1 billion gaming applications from the App Store and Google Play. Most of them came from 1% of publishers.

SuperData and Wargaming analysts say that the Russian gaming market will grow by 57% in 2019. This will allow it to enter the top three largest gaming economies in Europe.

Polish CD Projekt has shared the results of the third financial quarter. In three months, she earned $23.9 million — more than predicted.

A guideline for creating a comfortable and easily accessible game has appeared in the Microsoft hub. It can help creators of titles for both Xbox and other platforms.

The official announcement and presentation of a new game in the Half-Life series took place. It is called Half-Life: Alyx and will be released only in VR format on the PC platform.

Supercell has launched a creative platform as part of the promotion of Brawl Stars. With its help, players create cosmetics. The company can pay $10 thousand to some of them.

In the third final reading, the State Duma adopted the law on presets. According to him, Russian software must be pre-installed on smart devices sold in Russia.

Studio Dream Games, founded by ex-developers Peak Games, closed the first round of funding. She received $7.5 million to develop mobile puzzles.

The video game market is growing slower than a year earlier, and slower than analysts expected.