The “apple” company has gaming ambitions. She plans to launch her own platform where games will be distributed by subscription. Moreover, she is currently negotiating to independently publish games.

The revenue of the augmented reality (XR) market is expected to grow to $11.5 billion in 2019. This forecast, based on revenue statistics from VR, AR and MR devices, was made in SuperData.

Polish game dev will receive €23.2 million from the state, Radio Poland reports. The money will come from the National Center for Research and Development.

On February 12-13, the next White Nights will be held in the German capital. There will be a public interview with the head of the mobile division of Wargaming. We suggest coming up with a few questions for him. We will award two authors of the best selections with a premium ticket.

On January 25, Origin launched a closed demo of Anthem, a game service from BioWare. Electronic Arts gave access to the title to a limited number of users for three days. But Anthem just doesn’t let them play with themselves.

With it, you can create a small 2D game with simple physics.

The company will limit the time and duration of the gaming session for all underage users. The innovation will affect 15 leading NetEase projects and will operate exclusively in China.

The development team will also change. The creation of the fourth part will be handled by the American Retro Studios under the direction of producer Kensuke Tanabe.

The last numbered part of Battlefield in the United States was not included in the top ten best-selling games of the year. Before that, over the past ten years, only Battlefield: Hardline and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 were not included in the top.

Despite the Christmas season, digital sales in December 2018 showed both quarterly and annual declines. 

The author of Unreal Engine continues to acquire service companies specializing in the development of solutions for game developers. Yesterday it became known that the Epic Games “family” included 3Lateral and Agog Labs.

The story of the licensing freeze has finally come to a successful end for Tencent c NetEase. For the first time since last March, Chinese giants have received approval for the release of projects in China.

A public interview with Alexander Willink, CEO of Voodoo in Berlin, will take place at White Nights Berlin 2019. We suggest asking him questions. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

This is 18% more than a year earlier.

In the Middle Kingdom, 93 more games were allowed to be published. This is the third selection of approved projects since December. However, there are still no projects of the two leading gaming companies in the country “on the lists”.

Last year, a lot of games in the “battle royale” genre were released on Steam. However, most were unable to keep an active audience after the launch.

This is $19 million more than the game developers received in the same period from VKontakte.

A few days ago, a rumor appeared on the network that Fallout 76 may turn out to be a shareware game. Bethesda from its official Twitter account stated that this is not true.

It is unknown how many studio developers have lost their positions.