Minsk-based BlitzTeam founded by former World of Tanks Blitz devs launched their first project. It’s a mobile shooter created on the original engine and published without Wargaming’s involvement.

In 2020, XR market will be worth $8.5B. With that in mind, SuperData launched the first business intelligence platform that covers global and regional virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) segments.

White Nights organizers published the program of the winter session. EA DICE, Square Enix, SEGA, Paradox Interactive, Super Evil Megacorp and many others will speak at the conference, which is only a month and a half away.

Epic Games and Google had another opportunity to disagree over the predominant revenue share model. Epic wants to release Fortnite on Google Play, but is not prepared to give the store 30% of the game’s revenue. The developer called this kind of revenue split “illegal.”

Publisher 2K Games has launched a new gaming studio called Cloud Chamber. It is working on the next game in the BioShock series.

Niantic is going to manufacture AR glasses and the accompanying software through the collaboration with telecommunications company Qualcomm.

Epic Games has changed the payment processing rules in its store. Now developers will have more flexibility in how they take in-game purchases.

League of Legends company Riot Games announced a new publishing label, Riot Forge. It will publish games by external indie studios that “create bespoke ‘completable’ League of Legends games.”

NetEase joins Tencent on track to bring cloud gaming to China. The company started an open beta test of its streaming platform called NetEase Cloud Games.

With the UK preparing for the general election on December 12, Developer Ndemic Creations has rolled a new content update for its hit Plague Inc. It allows players to spread fake news and defamatory statements capable of derailing any political cause.

By 2025, Playrix intends to catch up with the leaders of the US market in terms of the annual revenue. These include companies like Activision Blizzard Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc.

Call of Duty Mobile’s revenue neared $87 million in its first two months, even if the second month saw a considerable dip in user spend.

Wargaming officially opened a new studio in Guildford, England, that will be focusing on an announced IP. 

Tencent is launching the Chinese version of the Nintendo Switch on December 10. The Chinese Switch will be priced at 2,099 yuan (around $300) and will come with a copy of New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, the only game for Switch so far to have received official license.

Apple announced its picks for the best games released in 2019. Google named games that won User’s Choice awards across several categories.

Sony released the first PlayStation 25 years ago today.

Solutions from mobile game development are finding their way to other platforms. PC strategy Age of Empires 4 will collect and anlyze players’ data to offer personalized tutorials.

Last Thursday, ZeptoLab rolled out an idle merge game called Om Nom: Merge. It’s the first title in the franchise to be developed by a third-party studio. Here’s what you need to know about the project plus a short interview with Dylan Tredrea, Head of Publishing at ZeptoLab.

One of December’s biggest mobile releases will be Black Desert Mobile. While still in soft-launch, the game has generated more than half a million dollars in a month.