An esports park will be built in Shanghai, including a stadium for tournaments. NetEase will invest $725 million dollars in the project.

By the end of this year, Psyonix studio will change the monetization in Rocket League. Loot boxes with a random reward will be removed from the game.

The creators of Unity have introduced a new platform — Unity Live Help. Within its framework, industry experts will be able to train game developers.

The number of copies sold of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI has reached 5.5 million. It is significantly ahead of the sales rate of other games in the series.

Alexander Bezobrazov, Marketing Director of Social Quantum, reveals how to understand how promising a particular genre is, using the example of culinary time managers.

Sony has found another way to avoid high US tariffs on Chinese electronics. The method is obvious: the Japanese giant is thinking about transferring production from China to another country.

In July, Supercell updated Clash Royale. The game has a new monetization tool — battle pass. Thanks to him, the weekly revenue of the game jumped from $ 4.8 million to $ 13.2 million.

The reason for mass shootings is again being sought in video games. This time, US President Donald Trump saw a connection between the games and two terrorist acts in the country. After that, the shares of the largest game publishers sank sharply.

In the situation with the harassment of the authors of Ooblets, the creators of Epic Games Store did not stand aside. They defended the Glumberland studio and at the same time noted an “alarming trend”.

Sim He, head of the publisher department at Mintegral, talks about how Voodoo monetizes its hyper-casual with the help of effective mobile advertising. App2Top.ru gives an excerpt from the Pocket Gamer material.

A new drama has arrived related to the exclusivity of games in the Epic Games Store. Indie studio Glumberland, which created Ooblets, was bullied because of a deal with “epics”.

Specializing in the publication of wargames, Slitherine announced another high-profile purchase. The company has acquired a full package of rights to the iconic turn-based strategy Master of Magic.

100 million users play Roblox every month. Perhaps now this children’s social MMO is more popular than Minecraft.

At the end of spring, there was a hype around a new genre — the autobattler. The new mechanics originated initially as a mod for Dota 2. Thanks to it, the audience of the Valve game increased by a quarter. But how interesting this genre is in isolation from the “mother game”, it becomes clear only now.

Cloning in the mobile games market has long been treated as an unavoidable evil. But hints of tracing paper with popular AAA, such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a sure cause for scandal. Sony learned this from its own experience, which presented the action-adventure game Genshin Impact this weekend.

Based on the strategies of the publisher Slitherine, military simulators will be created. For this, the UK Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will pay him $1.8 million.

The Autodesk toolkit has become available at a reduced price in a number of regions for a limited period.

In the games of the Turkish Peak Games, users spent over $ 1 billion. Almost all of the revenue came from two match-3s: Toy Blast and Toon Blast.

Google Play has updated its Developer Console, including adding a new metric. Now developers will be able to see how many users have returned to their games.