Virtual Playground - компания-разработчик компьютерных игр, известная в первую очередь благодаря серии экономических симуляторов "Тюремный магнат". Компания специализируется на создании игр в жанре менеджмента и стратегии, предлагая игрокам возможность строить, управлять и развивать различные объекты, в данном случае - тюрьмы. "Тюремный магнат 3: Максимальная безопасность" является одной из самых известных игр компании, предлагающей игрокам сложные задачи по управлению тюремным комплексом и обеспечению безопасности.
Why the world needs a Club Penguin successor – that isn't Roblox Stephen MacDonald, founder and CEO of Magic Potion Games, explains how Imagine Island will fill the gap left by Club Penguin, with a firm focus on child safety Club Penguin – the Disney-owned, Flash-based MMO, which ran from 2005 to 2017 – was a formative experience for a generation of children. Stephen MacDonald, who was a senior manager at Disney from 2012 to 2015, says that Club Penguin had over 300 million registered users at its peak. But the demise of Adobe Flash put paid to this penguin paradise, and a mobile-focused successor, Club Penguin Island, failed to take off – it shut down in December 2018, around a year and a half after its launch. Everyone could jump on easily, and I think that was part of the secret formula." The rise of Roblox In the years since Club Penguin's demise, Roblox has grown spectacularly, rising from 13.7 million daily active users in Q4 2018 to 144 million in Q4 2025, according to Statista.
Double Fine's famous game jam returns with 26 new ideas and a promise to make Brutal Legend 2, if its Kickstarter stretch goal is met The Amnesia Fortnight Kickstarter blew past its goal in just two days, but getting a new Brutal Legend is going to be a whole different pile of money One happy upside to Double Fine's newly-regained independence is the return of Amnesia Fortnight, the semi-regular in-house game jam in which everyone stops what they're doing and spends two weeks pitching and developing prototypes for new games. The 2026 edition of the event—seemingly the first since Microsoft acquired Double Fine in 2019—launched a Kickstarter campaign on August 31, and its $400,000 goal has already been surpassed. At the $15 tier, for instance, your vote only counts for half, but at $30 you get a full vote—and if you go up to $60, your vote is doubled—a single vote cast counts for two! No, not really: Never say never and all that, but Shenmue 3 was (and as far as I know still is) the most-funded videogame project in Kickstarter history, and it finished with $6.3 million.