As part of GDC 2019, Unity announced the AR Foundation update package for Unity Editor. It is needed to simplify the creation of applications and games with augmented reality support, designed for both iOS and Android.

At GDC 2019, Unity announced the purchase of Belgian Graphine, a developer of graphics software and real—time texture visualization tools. The cost of Graphine and other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

At the Unity panel within the framework of GDC 2019, Activision and Tencent announced a free-duplex Call of Duty Mobile for Europe and the USA. Initially, the game was developed only for China. It was not reported that it could be released in other regions.

As part of Google Mobile Developer Day, the search giant has introduced two new sites for Android game developers.

On March 18, the search giant shared three updates. Among the central ones is an increase in the APK limit from 100 to 150 megabytes.

On March 15, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 was released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. We tell you how the novelty was met by players and the press, and also evaluate its possible sales.

Facebook and Twitter are no longer the most popular platforms for sharing information about games. Which sites meet the needs of gamers more, — says the marketing company Megacool.

One of the most successful clones of Clash of Clans and four years after the launch continues to gain an audience.

Analysts of The Princeton Review named the best gaming university in Europe. For the fifth time in a row, it became the University of Abertay (Abertay University), located in Scotland.

In April, the Google Ads service will be supplemented with a new section — Policy Manager. This is a tool designed to analyze ads and advertiser accounts for violations of Google policy.

Discord, whose audience reached 200 million people in December, has made major changes to the distribution model of games. He closed his own game store, but at the same time allowed developers to sell them themselves as part of the service.

1.6 thousand people took back their money invested in the Phoenix Point turn-based strategy from Snapshot Games. So they expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the title will not be on Steam – it will become a temporary exclusive of the Epic Games Store.

Sales of the Monster Hunter: World version for personal computers in Russia and Germany have performed very well.

Beat Saber sold 1 million copies on all platforms in less than a year. This game is the first project for VR that has managed to achieve this.

In 2018, the Russian console market showed strong growth. The best dynamics were shown not by modern devices, but by retro consoles. This was reported in “M.Video-Eldorado”.

Epic Games is working on the transparency of its game store. She shared the service development plan for the next six months. The information is presented in the Trello task manager.

Facebook Gaming has a new tab on the navigation bar for millions of users of the Facebook app. All game content that exists on the platform is available on it. In the near future, the social network plans to give access to Facebook Gaming to the entire audience.

The amount of the transaction is not called.

On the eve of GDC 2019, which opens on March 18, Microsoft announced the Game Stack. The latter is a single ecosystem for all the company’s game development solutions.