Unity Asset Store does not pay content creators from Belarus and Russia for 9 months

Russian and Belarusian content creators have not received payments from Unity Asset Store for nine months.
Similar problems have affected Ukrainians.
According to App2Top, Unity Asset Store can not set up bank transfers.
However, it is noted that the site promotes the content of the authors and sells it.Unity Asset Store offers developers two payment models: transfer via PayPal and the bank account through SWIFT.
In Russia, PayPal is not available since February, in Belarus and Ukraine, the service is in limited mode.
SWIFT in these countries also works with interruptions, while in Belarus and Russia, its work is limited by sanctions.Portal writes that the problem is likely to lie in the company Worldpay, which handles payments Unity.
The system might have stopped working with banks in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine after February.

Rumor: Early Silent Hill 2 remake screenshots by Layers of Fear writers

Possible screenshots (in very low resolution) of the early Silent Hill 2 remake, which is supposedly being worked on by Bloober Team, known for Layers of Fear and The Medium, were leaked online.The authenticity of the images was confirmed by famous insider Dusk Golem, who leaked screenshots and artwork of the new Silent Hill in May of this year.
According to him, these are screenshots of an internal demo, and they do not represent the final product.
Apparently, this is one of the pitch presentation, which was approved by Konami in 2018.There is still no official confirmation of the development of the Silent Hill 2 Bloober Team remake, with the latter's collaboration with Konami known since last summer.At the moment we have only rumors, though, the leadership of Bloober Team refused to comment.By the way, in September the annual Tokyo Game Show is held, and Konami takes part in it.
The company is planning an unannounced project and we'll find out about it on the 16th of September.
Some of the insiders are speculating that it might be the new Silent Hill.

Destiny 2: The End of the World, Total War: Warhammer 3, and Hogwarts Legacy - in the fresh Steam chart

In the fresh Steam chart, where goods and games are ordered by revenue for seven days, there were two new products and two pre-orders.
And the highest position of them, just behind the Steam Deck, took the expansion \"Destiny 2: End of the World + Annual Pass\".It bypassed Total War: Warhammer 3, which recently received an update with the beta mode Immortal Empires and increased its peak online tenfold, remaster of \"Spider-Man\" and Cult of the Lamb, as well as the fresh expansion Total War: Warhammer 3 - Champions of Chaos.
In addition, the simulator F1 Manager 2022 was in the top ten, as well as pre-orders Hogwarts Legacy, not available in Russia.
At the same time, this week the system requirements for the magic adventure became known.
Chart from August 22 to 28 Steam Deck; Destiny 2: End of the World + Annual Pass (pre-order); Total War: Warhammer 3; Spider-Man; Cult of the Lamb; Total War: Warhammer 3 - Champions of Chaos (new); F1 Manager 2022 (new); Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition; Hogwarts Legacy (pre-order); Naraka: Bladepoint.Chart from August 16 to 21

Gotham Knights developers told about the progression and the \"skill tree\"

The creators of the RPG thriller Gotham Knights told about the progression of protagonists and how it works \"skill tree\".Players can play for one of the four Knights - Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl and Redcap.
The developers wanted to make sure that by the end of the game only one of the heroes has become a true successor to Batman with an excellent set of abilities - and it tried to reflect in the pumping.The main abilities can be opened with the appropriate points - as in a standard RPG.
These points will also appear in unused characters, which can be distributed after the change of protagonist.Prokachka each hero can lead to unique results.
Batgirl specializes in hand-to-hand combat, hacking, or survival; Nightwing can develop acrobatics or get a big co-op buff; Robin can pump stealth or gadgets.As for Redcap, his \"skill tree\" offers pumping firearms or hand-to-hand combat skills.
A detailed demonstration of these two areas with gameplay was shown earlier.
Also, Redcap has a \"Revenge\" branch, which uses the rage of the hero, allowing to make him more intimidating and effective against certain enemies.There is also a branch \"Chivalry\", available to all protagonists - it will open at a certain point in the story.
Batgirl will be able to fly, and Robin will be able to teleport over short distances.
To get these powerful abilities heroes will have to complete a number of unique tests.Also paid attention to the branch of abilities Momentum, which includes special attacks.
They can be earned by completing certain tasks in the open world.Earlier the authors of Gotham Knights announced that the game \"went for gold\".
Its release, recall, will be held on October 25 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC.

Unity showed off the engine's capabilities through a new technodemo with lions

Unity Technologies has published a short video demo with lions, which should give an idea of the engine's capabilities.In the creation of the technodemo, numerous new features supported by the latest version of the Unity Engine were used.
In particular, we used High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP), Adaptive Probe Volumes for Global Illumination (GI) and Hair System based on GPU, which provides dynamic response of hair strands in real time.
Vegetation from SpeedTree was used for the environments, and the lions were enhanced with Ziva RT.Unity Technologies says the technodemo runs on PlayStation 5 at 4K resolution at 30 FPS.
There is no word on a public release.

The cast of Henry and Sam in The Last of Us

HBO has revealed the actors playing the roles of Henry and Sam in The Last of Us, expected to premiere in 2023.The role of Henry went to Lamar Johnson (\"Alien Hate\"), while his younger brother Sam was played by Keyvonne Woodard.
That said, the series will still feature two new characters that weren't in the game, the married couple Marlon (Graham Greene) and Florence (Elaine Miles), who are trying to survive in Wyoming.
In addition, part of the plot will be slightly different from the original - if in the game the main characters met Henry and Sam in Pittsburgh, in the series it will be Kansas City, where the danger level due to looters is much higher.The central roles of Joel and Ellie, as previously known, are played by Bella Ramsay and Pedro Pascal.

Watching streams on Twitch and YouTube is declining

Steamlabs and Stream Hatchet have published a report with statistics on gaming streaming platforms for the second quarter of 2022.It is noted that the number of viewing hours on all platforms decreased by 8.4% compared to the previous quarter.
Twitch is still the largest streaming platform, despite nearly 30 million fewer hours of streaming.
At the same time, the Just Chatting category on Twitch reached a record 828 million hours of viewing for the quarter.Game publisher and developer Riot Games was once again the most popular on streaming services, surpassing its rivals Rockstar and Take-Two by nearly half the number of views.Viewing hours on YouTube Gaming were almost unchanged from the previous quarter at 1.13 billion hours.
However, hours were down 13.1 percent from the second quarter of last year.The decline in views is expected after the peak of the pandemic, during which broadcast viewing records were set.

Gran Turismo 7 update increases prices on cars

The latest Gran Turismo 7 update, released last week, raises the prices of some cars.One of the dataminer provided a list of changes, which shows that 27 cars have already increased or will increase in price, 21 remain the same price, and two, on the contrary, will become cheaper.In particular, the price increase affected Hagerty cars - the developers have warned in March that they will apply a special assessment tool, depending on real life.
So, for example, Ferrari F40 rose in price from 1.35 million credits to 2.6 million credits.
The next price review, apparently, is scheduled for August 2022.Recall, Gran Turismo 7 was released in early March on PS4 and PS5 - but not in Russia.
After the release, the game had a lot of problems.