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.

From February to July, the Talents In Games game dev specialists search site attracted about 2,000 targeted responses to companies that use its services.

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.