Roblox has been unavailable for players for three days, which led to the decline of the average time spent in the app by 93% from October 29 to 31. A few rival apps and games, however, saw a rise in their usage rate thanks to this outage.

A Better Ubisoft (ABU) group has reacted to the company’s latest response to the employees’ key demands regarding management failures. While the group is pleased that the publisher is taking steps towards creating a better workplace, it still calls the overall response weak.

SEGA has announced a new strategic partnership with Microsoft. It will let the company create global games using the Azure cloud platform.

Skydance New Media, which is led by industry veteran Amy Henning, has announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment. It is now working on its debut AAA title featuring an original story.

No More Robots founder Mike Rose has shared a few insights on how the Riders Republic launch affected the publisher’s racing game Descenders. And it seems like Ubisoft’s latest title has become really helpful in boosting sales.

Fortnite won’t be available in China anymore. Servers of the game’s regional version will be shut down later this month, as Epic Games might see no sense to continue spending money on it.

Tencent’s deal to buy Sumo Group for $1.27 billion has come under scrutiny. The acquisition is now being investigated by the US national security probe.

Facebook has officially changed the company’s name to Meta. It is another step towards building a metaverse, which will also means creating and developing new products, technologies, and solutions.

New World has become the first major success for Amazon in the games market. Although the initial hype has started to wear off, the MMORPG is still the third most played title on Steam.

With God of War and a few other upcoming ports, Sony continues to expand into the PC market. And the new label called “PlayStation PC” is another sign of it.

Bobby Kotick has written a letter to employees following a statement to make Activision Blizzard the most welcoming and inclusive company in the industry. He shared the upcoming changes, also asking the board to reduce his salary and apologizing for letting people down.

Like almost every company out there, Ubisoft wants players to spend as much time in their games as possible. So those users who didn’t play Far Cry 6 enough, received mocking emails from the title’s antagonist. And not everyone liked this idea.

BlizzConline, which was planned for February 2022, has been officially paused for an undefined period of time. Although the company said that it wants to “reimagine” the event, it still will present new games in another format.

A new mobile game based on the Stranger Things franchise has been officially launched today. Netflix helped Finnish studio Next Game develop the title, which marks a new step for the streaming giant in its expansion into the games industry.

Samsung has announced its own platform for cloud gaming for Smart TVs. The company says that it will allow people to play games “without purchasing high-end hardware.” Analyst Mat Piscatella from the NPD Group, however, thinks that Samsung completely misses the point here.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has opened a case against Apple as the company still doesn’t let developers add links to alternative payment methods outside the App Store.

Cloé Veilleux, trans developer who used to work on the Guardians of the Galaxy team, was humbled to see her new name used in the game’s credits. Eidos Montreal also received praise from other industry workers for doing this.

Experienced investor and gaming CEO Kristian Segerstrale has called on the industry to step in and help fight climate change. He said that it is time to do something about it.

Notorious is a new studio made up of former Blizzard Entertainment employees. It is named after the World of Warcraft guild that these developers used to be a part of. The team is now working on its first project.