On Steam, the leader in the number of sales over the past week was a game that is focused exclusively on the Chinese audience and has no English localization.

Last Sunday, the Chinese giant Tencent announced the start of restructuring. The announcement took place against the background of the unfavorable situation in the gaming industry of China.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 28.

The story of Vivendi’s sale of its stake in Ubisoft has dragged on. Back on March 20, it was announced that Vivendi would get rid of the developer’s shares. But, as it became known today, the company will finally say goodbye to the assets of the authors of Assassin’s Creed only in March next year.

Today, on September 28, it became known that Konstantin Sakhnov, the head of the Rocket Jump gaming department, is leaving the company. He announced this on his official Facebook page.

White Nights Moscow 2018 will be held on October 16-17. A round table on PC publishing will be held as part of the conference. We suggest asking the participants questions. The authors of the two best ones will receive a premium ticket to the event.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 27.

Despite the partnership with Bluehole and a stake in Epic Games, the Chinese Internet giant Tencent also decided to play on the battlefield of royal battles. The company has released its own game in this genre on the Western market (i.e. on Steam). Users already call the game “the right PUBG”, and the game itself shows good metrics for a young product.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 26.

Wanted: a level designer at Belka Games, a Java programmer at Pixonic and a producer at Fusion Core.

August was unsuccessful for Riot Games. Her “League of Legends” for the first time in a year was in third place in monthly sales on PC. It was overtaken not only by the Chinese MMO Dungeon Fighter Online, but also by the premium World of Warcraft.

Again about abbreviations. The publisher of Big Fish Casino and Gummy Drop is going to cut its staff by 15%. He will dismiss not only developers, but also several key figures in management.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 25.

Machine learning (ML) in the gaming industry is most often associated with level testing and dynamic complexity change. Meanwhile, this tool can also be used to increase gaming profits. About this in his material for App2Top.ru Dmitry Shelengovsky, the founder of Playgendary, who is actively introducing ML into his products, told us.

During the development of Endless Space 2, the team shared the game design of the game with the community and asked for feedback.

The laws of Belgium forced ArenaNet to take extreme measures. She turned off the ability to buy gems for Guild Wars 2 in the country. Most likely, this happened because of the fear of receiving a fine of € 800 thousand.

Business news (and not only) of the gaming industry for September 24.

A round table on machine learning in games will be held at the Moscow White Nights session, which will be held on October 16-17. We offer to ask its participants questions. The authors of the best questions will receive a premium ticket.

Anastasia Selchuk from Pixonic told whether it is possible to find out how the audience will meet her before the release of the game (and even at the pre-production stage).