The digital online game store GOG,com has added user profiles and a number of social features. So the service has become even more similar to Steam.

Quantic Dream studio filed a lawsuit against the French publications Le Monde and Mediapart. The reason was articles about difficult working conditions and a bad atmosphere in the team of a gaming company.

Employees of the Terminal Reality studio filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation. According to the developers, Microsoft illegally uses the company’s graphics technologies.

Tencent Corporation intends to invest about ¥100 million ($ 15.8 million) in the promotion of the popular online action movie Fortnite in China. Epic Games’ game hit officially launched in China on April 23.

The Moscow-based studio ZeptoLab is celebrating the first birthday of the mobile PvP game about seals C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Turbo. As part of the event, the company announced that the game had overcome the mark of 100 million installations.

The Twitch stream platform has begun beta testing of a monetization system that will reward both streamers and developers of Twitch Extensions interactive add-ons.

White Nights will be held in St. Petersburg on June 28-29. It will host a large-scale exhibition of developers. Now the organizers are collecting applications from teams with projects in the beta stage and above.

Report by Matej Lancaric from Pixel Federation. In his presentation, the speaker compared the process of launching two games: Diggy’s Adventure and Seaport, told what problems the company faced, what solutions were found.

The design director of Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas, Josh Sawyer from Obsidian studio, believes that it is high time for the genre of role-playing games to evolve. Sawyer told about this at the Reboot Develop conference, which was held recently in Croatia.

Sony Pictures and Rovio Entertainment are shooting the second part of the full-length animated film The Angry Birds Movie. It will appear on screens on September 20, 2019.

Valve Corporation acquired the independent studio Campo Santo. This was reported by the representatives of Campo Santo on their website. The amount and terms of the transaction are not specified.

The project manager of the Hearthstone card game Ben Brode announced his departure from Blizzard. Brod worked in it for 15 years, 10 of which were engaged in the development of Hearthstone.

As part of the fight against Telegram, Roskomnadzor has officially started blocking IP addresses in Russia. According to unofficial data, 63 out of 600 IP addresses were closed google.com . After that, in an official comment to TechCrunch, Google confirmed that it was affected by the actions of the Russian authorities.

Sensor Tower analysts have calculated how much the feature in the App Store updated last fall began to affect app downloads. According to their estimates, in the American App Store, the weekly increase in installations of the promoted application can be 800%.

The White Nights summer session will take place in the northern capital of Russia in the midst of the World Cup. The event will take place from 28 to 29 June 2018.

Sales of the LABO cardboard constructor compatible with the Nintendo Switch console have started today. Simultaneously with the constuctor, Nintendo released spare parts kits for its repair.

Korean gaming company SmileGate announced a plan to liquidate a branch in Berlin. It opened last February and has been in operation for a little over a year. SmileGate explained their decision by restructuring the business.

The Dutch authorities have ordered a number of developers to remove loot boxes from their games. Companies have 2 months to respond. If they do not comply with the requirements, they may be fined and even banned titles with loot boxes on the territory of the country.

The Chinese corporation Tencent is the largest gaming investor in the world. From April 2017 to the end of March this year, Tencent invested in gaming companies 40% of all funds that developers and startups of the video game industry managed to attract in 12 months.