On the eve of E3, Microsoft made a loud announcement. The Xbox Game Pass subscription, which opens access to an extensive gaming library of new products for a monthly fee, will be available to PC users. In addition, future projects of the company’s internal studios will no longer be Microsoft Store exclusives on PC. They (including Gears 5) can be purchased on Steam.

Several major retailers in the United States sold out their entire Oculus Quest circulation in a week. The headset was thrown on the shelves on May 21.

Facebook continues to develop its Audience Network advertising network. Over the past year, the number of gaming companies registered in it has increased by 1.5 times. For them, the social network has prepared several new features related to game monetization.

Total War: Three Kingdoms sales exceeded one million copies in less than a week after its release. The title is named the fastest-selling in the series.

The gaming part of the holding Mail.ru Group — MY.GAMES — has announced its plans to buy a controlling stake in Panzerdog. Earlier, the investment division of the group, MRGV, invested € 800 thousand in the studio.

Google has notified developers about changes in the Google Play rules. They are aimed at protecting children from content that is not intended for them.

Russian IT giant Mail.Ru The Group has announced the launch of a new brand. It’s called MY.GAMES. Now it is on his behalf that all the company’s game projects will be released.

Moonlighter and Frostpunk turned out to have excellent sales. This allowed their publisher — Polish 11 bit Studios — to abandon investment restrictions. This was stated by its director of publication Pavel Feldman (Paweł Feldman).

Now the main driver of Finnish Rovio’s income is games. But there was a time when licensing brought half of Rovio’s revenue. Stephen Porter, its marketing director, told about how the company’s gaming and licensing business was changing.

Russian social networks are actively promoting the development of mobile HTML5 games. The other day, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte announced a contest for their creators. They promise money and traffic.

For the last two weeks, the top of the most downloaded hyper-casual games has been headed by the Russian game. The project is called Stack Ball and is published by Azur Games.

Wanted: a project manager at Plarium, a 2D artist at G5 Entertainment and a traffic manager at Finnish Next Games.

PC users on Reddit discussed graphics settings in modern games. And they told what visual effects prevent them from enjoying the game and are disabled by default.

On June 18, a chamber event dedicated to the gaming market of the Celestial Empire will take place in the city on the Neva. We are talking about Journey to the East, where representatives of mobile companies will share insights about working in the Chinese market.

Dauntless’s audience has grown to 5 million players in less than a week. The game was officially released on May 21.

In the USA, Republicans and Democrats have united against loot boxes. In particular, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s bill banning loot boxes was signed by two members of the Democratic Party.

Arena of Valor (Honor of Kings) has finally failed in the West. And therefore, according to Reuters, the Chinese publisher Tencent wants to abandon this version of the game to its fate.

Google will open another data center in Finland. The Internet giant is investing $672 million in this project.

It looks like Ubisoft is preparing its own subscription service. This follows from a leak in the Uplay store.