PUBG Mobile Remains Most Profitable Mobile Game for Five Months Straight
Sensor Tower provided data, according to which PUBG Mobile was the most profitable mobile production on the market for the fifth month in a row. The title with the highest number of downloads in January was Johnny Trigger.
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Paul Wozniak
February 11, 2020
Ryzen in MacBooks? Rumors of Collaboration Between Apple and AMD
Mentions in the source code of the latest beta version of the MacOS suggest that new computers from Apple may use AMD components. This applies to both graphics cards and CPUs.
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Bart Swiatek
February 10, 2020
Leak: New Crash Bandicoot Will be a Mobile Game
Everything indicates that a new game from the Crash Bandicoot series is in development. Unfortunately, it will not be a continuation or remake/remaster of the classic version, but a mobile game from the devs of Candy Crush Saga.
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Konrad Serafinski
February 8, 2020
World of Warcraft Doubled its Number of Subscribers
Activision Blizzard has published a financial report for the past year. Apart from revenues and profits, we learned that the number of World of Warcraft subscribers has more than doubled.
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Adrian Werner
February 7, 2020
Chromium-based Browsers Will Start Blocking Ads in Videos
The Coalition for Better Ads announced in a press release that it has developed a new standard for short video advertising. Chromium-based browsers, starting with Google Chrome in August this year, will implement solutions to force changes on website administrators.
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Bart Swiatek
February 6, 2020
Dan Houser, Co-creator of GTA, Leaves Rockstar Games
On March 11 2020, Dan Houser, co-founder of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption franchises, will leave the ranks of Rockstar Games. Unfortunately, the reasons for this surprising decision were not revealed.
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Peter Doron
February 5, 2020
Capcom With Record-breaking Profits
Capcom boasted that Monster Hunter World sales exceeded 15 million copies. In turn, Iceborne has already found over 4.5 million buyers. The first three quarters of the current fiscal year have brought biggest profits in the publisher's history.
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Adrian Werner
February 4, 2020
Windows 10 on Over a Billion Devices
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 has been installed on more than one billion active devices. It took 4.5 years to break this treshold.
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Bart Swiatek
February 3, 2020
The European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Universal Charger
The European Parliament adopted a resolution to unify charging ports for all smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices available on the market. 582 voters were in favor of its introduction.
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Agnes Adamus
January 31, 2020
Avast Apologizes for „Hurting Feelings” and Shuts Down Jumpshot
Avast's CEO has apologized to his customers and informed them that the company's subsidiary, Jumpshot, has been closed. The case is related to recent controversy over the sale of user data. The information was collected by the plug-in installed with the Avast antivirus software.
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Bart Swiatek
January 31, 2020
Dota Underlords Early Access Departure Date Revealed
We've learned when Dota Underlords will leave the early access phase. According to Valve, update 1.0 will debut on February 25. Together with it, the first ranked season will start, which will offer a lot of attractions.
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Milosz Szubert
January 31, 2020
EA is Making a Fortune on Microtransactions
Electronic Arts reported that in the last quarter of 2019 it earned almost one billion dollars on microtransactions. They account for more than half of the publisher's total revenues.
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Adrian Werner
January 31, 2020
Nintendo Earned One Billion Dollars in Revenue From Mobile Games
Sensor Tower, the analytical group, revealed the financial results of Nintendo's mobile games. Titles like Fire Emblem Heroes or Mario Kart Tour have brought the company one billion dollars in revenue.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 29, 2020
Artifact hasn't got Any Updates From Valve for a Year
Artifact, a card game from Valve Software, has not received any update for a year. No new content has been created, no balance fixes have been implemented, and no errors have been fixed. According to the developers' announcements, the game was to be thoroughly rebuilt, but it is not known whether something is being done in that direction.
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Bart Swiatek
January 29, 2020
Streamer Pays Off his Mom's Student Loan
Aydan Conrad, a professional streamer, Fortnite player and a member of the esports organization Ghost Gaming, made a pleasant surprise for his mother. He paid off her student loan for her.
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Milosz Szubert
January 28, 2020
Avast was Selling User Data
Avast, developer of the popular free Avast and AVG antivirus software, used the browser plug-in installed with them to collect private user data. The information was then sold to third parties by Avast's subsidiary Jumpshot.
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Bart Swiatek
January 28, 2020
Blizzard Created a Prototype of Hearthstone VR
One of the creators of Hearthstone revealed to PowerUp that the developers were working on a VR version of the game. In the end, the project was discontinued, but an interesting prototype has been created.
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Konrad Serafinski
January 28, 2020
Players and Devs of NBA 2K20 Pay Their Respect to Kobe Bryant
NBA 2K20 introduced a start screen to commemorate Kobe Bryant. Also the game's players paid a tribute to the tragically deceased legend of basketball with numerous meetings on the game's servers.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 27, 2020
GDC - More Than Half of Currently Developed Games are Designed For PC
Game Developers Conference organizers conducted a survey among game devs, from which we can learn many interesting things about current trends in the industry, e.g. what percentage of developers prepares projects for PS5 and new Xbox.
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January 25, 2020
Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 Launch Date
Second Season of Fortnite Chapter 2 will be introduced in less than a month. For the time being, the devs do not specify what kind of novelties it will contain, but we found out that the next update (before the start of season 2) will introduce the Chaos physics system, which is part of the Unreal Engine.
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Paul Wozniak
January 25, 2020