Russian MY.GAMES will launch a global distribution platform — MY.GAMES Store. There will be a place for both the company’s own projects and games from third-party developers.

Epic Games got caught selling a repainted item from the Fortnite battle pass. Previously, the company assured that items from the “combat pass” are exclusive and cannot be purchased separately.

This week, Playrix announced the worldwide launch of its new match-3. The novelty is called Wildscapes. It is dedicated to the construction of a zoo. This is the company’s first game in the last two years.

In the story with G2A and the authors of Subnautica, the last one had to apologize. Unknown World admitted that it was in vain that she demanded $ 300 thousand from the store. Although I finally criticized his work anyway.

Wanted: a manager for the purchase of traffic in MY.GAMES, a manager for the development of game projects in Nevosoft and a senior 3D animator in Social Quantum.

Tencent is gradually recovering after the end of the game licensing freeze in China. In the second quarter of this year, 10 mobile games of the Chinese giant entered the market at once.

Yandex was pleased with the update of the AppMetrica analytical system. Now you can use it to display information about how much money this or that advertising campaign has brought.

The authors of Unity are trying to simplify the study of the engine for new users. To this end, they have released two new classroom tools. They will allow you to master computer science and the basics of game design based on Unity.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games has launched a “daughter” on the territory of Ukraine. The new studio is based in Kharkiv and is built on the basis of the local h8games team.

The additional US tax on a number of Chinese goods, which caused a stir in the console market, has been postponed until December 15. Initially, it was supposed to come into force on September 1.

Russian 1C Entertainment has announced the revival of the cult series of turn-based games. The company is developing King’s Bounty 2, whose release on “big” platforms is scheduled for next year.

Swedish developer Isbit Games has closed due to lack of funds. He is the author of the Zlatan Legends mobile sports game and several other projects for different platforms.

The most popular game engine in the UK is Unity. 72% of local studios are developing games on it.

The creator of PUBG is increasing the staff of Glen Schofield’s studio — Striking Distance. It includes former Call of Duty and Dead Space developers and three artists of the bankrupt Telltale.

THQ Nordic Holding (not to be confused with the publisher of the same name, which it owns) he announced three major acquisitions at once.

Microsoft is ready to meet its internal studios that want to release games for different platforms. As stated by the head of the Xbox division Matt Booty, the decision will be made separately for each studio.

The authors of Subnautica demand $300 thousand from the G2A store. The latter is often criticized by indie developers for unfair, in their opinion, key trading.

A new leader has been found on the Odnoklassniki gaming platform. He became the co-founder of the studio Star Island Games Evgeny Polotnyanko.

Former id Software director Tim Willits has found a new job. He was hired by Saber Interactive, partly based in Russia.