French Voodoo is exploring a new market for itself. The company has published an analogue of the popular social application TikTok. The novelty is called Voodoo Video: Watch, Discover.

Chinese gamers defend the Steam version of Total War: Three Kingdoms in front of its local publisher — NetEase. Fearing censorship, players write hundreds of negative reviews on the Total War franchise.

By the end of the year, the creators of Roblox games will be paid a total of $ 100 million. Recall that many of them are minors.

The importance of the gaming industry for the Kaliningrad region was recently announced by its governor Anton Alikhanov.

American gaming giant Activision Blizzard reported for the second quarter. It turned out that in April — June, King brought the most money to the company. The holding earned about $499 million on match-3 and mobile advertising.

Valve has confirmed that Steam developers can no longer change release dates without its consent. Rumors about this appeared last week.

The Walmart retail chain decided to play it safe after the US president’s recent attack on video games. The company ordered to remove ads with violent scenes from video games. But I did not remove the weapons from the sale.

On August 7, a board game about building a gaming business appeared on sale. It’s called Game Dev Sim. One of its authors — Vyacheslav Utochkin — prepared for App2Top.ru material about the project.

Epic Games, following several publishers, confirmed its desire to make loot boxes transparent mechanics. In all new games of the company, the percentage of randomness in loot boxes will be indicated.

Samsung has announced a collaboration with Discord. The application will be pre—installed in the new flagship of the mobile company – Galaxy Note 10.

Founded two years ago, Annapurna Interactive has very loudly declared itself in the niche of game art projects. She is the publisher of What Remains of Edith Finch, Flower and Gorogoa. And she may have problems because of the parent company.

The experience of Electronic Arts in working with indie developers can be called successful so far. The experimental narrative game A Way Out by Josef Fares has been sold more than two million times.

The story of Destiny 2 sounds more and more interesting. Bungie announces that its project will be completely removed from the service Battle.net . On PC, the game will appear exclusively on Steam.

It sounds crazy, but the StarCraft franchise seems to be less and less interested in Activision Blizzard. This can be judged by the latest financial report from the publisher.

Since April last year, the Entertainment Software Rating Commission (ESRB) has been labeling games with in-game purchases. This marking was received by 18% of all physical games that passed through the ESRB during this time.

In new games for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, the chance of items falling out of loot boxes will always be indicated. Console games that violate this rule will simply not be published.

Dota 2 had two problems with matchmaking: it did not give players an incentive to play in a team and could not balance teams by roles. A recent update has solved both.

The turnover of the mobile games market in Japan in 2018 rose to $13.3 billion. But its growth rate is decreasing.

Valve stopped juggling release dates on Steam. Now game developers will not be able to postpone the release of the game in the store without Valve’s approval.