After the sale of several studios, Kabam re-acquires assets. The publisher and developer bought the midcore mobile studio Riposte Games & Co.

As part of a series of announcements, Apple talked about its new gaming service. It’s called Arcade. Exclusives will be released on it, access to which will be open by subscription.

More than 64 million active users use Xbox Live every month, said Bill Schiefelbein, the program’s general manager. He presented key figures on the use of the service at GDC 2019.

Right now, this is the best launch for 2019 on Steam.

Sales of the indie game Dead Cells exceeded 1 million copies. This became known at GDC 2019 from game designer Sebastian Benard (Sébastien Bénard).

Next summer, Nintendo will offer gamers two new versions of Switch. Sources familiar with the company’s plans told The Wall Street Journal about this.

The day before yesterday, Google introduced the cloud gaming platform Stadia to the world. A number of media outlets were able to test the future novelty and find out if it has flaws and what they are. Their reviews App2Top collected in this material.

Currently, 85 million players are registered in the Epic Games Store. Epic Games told about this in the framework of GDC 2019.

The organizers of the White Nights conference series have announced the launch of registration for the summer session, which will be held in St. Petersburg. The planned number of guests and some participating companies have been announced.

The game was released on March 8 on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

At GDC 2019, Valve showed a new interface for the Steam library. Thus, the company confirmed long-standing rumors about the redesign of the store.

For three months in a row — from November to January — the turnover of the digital video games market fell. February interrupted the series. In the last month of winter, users spent $8.2 billion on games, which is 2% more than in the same month a year earlier.

The controversial MMO shooter Anthem from BioWare in its debut month turned out to be more commercially successful than Apex Legends from Respawn Entertainment.

At GDC 2019, Oculus unveiled its new virtual reality helmet. The model is called Oculus Rift S.

At the GDC 2019 conference, the award ceremonies for the best gaming projects have ended. App2Top publishes a list of 2019 laureates.

Yesterday, information about the hiring of employees at the Lucasfilm Games studio, allegedly the predecessor of LucasArts, spread. After a number of clarifications, it turned out that Lucasfilm Games is a long—existing gaming division of Lucasfilm Ltd. It is for him that Disney is looking for footage.

Three months after the announcement, Epic Games announced the release of the SDK for Epic Online Services. At the start, analytics and a ticket system are available for developers to integrate.

During the presentation dedicated to GDC 2019, Epic Games told how actively temporarily free projects are downloaded from its store, boasted about the success of the PC version of Metro: Exodus, and also announced new projects in its library.

At GDC 2019, Epic Games announced the launch of the Epic MegaGrants investment program. As part of it, she is going to financially support the Unreal Engine user community. In total, the company is going to invest $ 100 million in teams.