About the main thing for November 6: Square Enix acquired 20% of Bulkhead Interactive studio, Deca Games bought the Finnish game Zombie Catchers, Rainbow Six Siege was delayed due to the release in China on Steam.

Children in China have been blocked from having round-the-clock access to games. According to The Wall Street Journal, Tencent will soon introduce time limits on gaming sessions for Chinese minors.

The gaming community’s criticism of Blizzard’s new game has seriously affected the value of its securities. Before the announcement, $68.9 was given per share. By Monday evening, it was already $64.8.

Capcom will continue to release “cloud versions” of its games. The company considers this direction promising.

A report by Mikhail Sviblov from Zeptolab. The speaker spoke about how developers can make their partnership with publishers as effective as possible: in which cases it is better to publish the game on their own, and when it is necessary to “go under the wing”, what to expect from cooperation with the publisher, how not to lose the rights to your project.

On November 2, at the BlizzCon festival, Blizzard announced Diablo Immortal. The new Diablo was met with hostility. In less than the first three hours, the Immortal trailer scored 75 thousand dislikes. In total, by that time, the video had been viewed 120 thousand times.

Friday was not without pleasant surprises. Blizzard announced two new major projects at the opening of the 25th BlizzCon Festival. They became Diablo Immortal and Warcraft III: Reforged.

About the main thing for November 2: the mobile version of Hearthstone earned $660 million; Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 risks repeating the fate of Star Wars: Battlefront II; Nintendo sells one million 3DS in six months for the eighth year of the console’s existence.

Newzoo analysts have published a forecast for the turnover of the video game market for the current year. The main thing in it is a drop in the dynamics of revenue from mobile. They say China is to blame for this and the situation with game releases is not the most prosperous.

A report by Ville Rauma from Fingersoft. The speaker told the story of the Hill Climb Racing franchise, which has won the hearts of a billion players around the world.

Wanted: Project manager at Nikita Online, head of development at Social Quantum and analyst at Nevosoft.

Known for fritupley hiddenes for casual audience, MyTona expands its portfolio. The Yakutia-based company has announced a hardcore game. The novelty is called Manastorm: Arena of Legends, and little is known about it yet.

The Kartridge game store has entered an open beta test. The store was created specifically for indie developers.

About the main thing for November 1: CryptoKitties developers raised $15 million; Zynga released a clone of Homescapes, which is visually a copy of Candy Crush; the Switch library has gained a base of 1300 projects in a year and a half.

Zynga has published a financial report for the 3rd quarter of 2018. It follows from it that the company managed to achieve the best mobile performance in its entire history.

The example of Ubisoft shows why some publishers are so interested in developing DLC and implementing microtransactions. Downloadable content, in-game items, subscriptions and advertising accounted for 35% of Ubisoft’s revenue in the past six months.

A report by Vadim Charugin from Pixonic. The speaker told the story of the creation of events, through which the company demonstrates new mechanics, as well as how Pixonic puts forward hypotheses and how it tests them during events, gradually introducing quests and lotteries.

The path to the heart of the mass consumer for modern VR technologies is still closed. This was stated by the creator of the Oculus Rift Palmer Lucky (Palmer Luckey) in his blog.

Ubisoft was pleased with the experience of working with Google’s Project Stream cloud. Now the French publisher is thinking about cooperation with other cloud services.