The organizers of the indie developers Indie Cup competition have announced the beginning of the winter season 2022. The first stage — acceptance of works — will last until February 14.

Dmitry Yaminsky, co-founder of Azur Games, shares in his column the reasons for the emergence of the Pay Per Prototype model and explains why it no longer makes sense in the current conditions.

The first session of the WN Conference in 2022 will be held in Berlin. The dates are February 7-8. The event will be held both offline and online. His program has already been published.

The boom in investments in mobile studios continues in Turkey. Recently, a local startup Dream Games, known for match-3 Royal Match, received $255 million from investors. As a result, its market value reached $2.75 billion.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard for a record $68.7 billion for the gaming industry. As a result, Sony‘s shares collapsed, and information appeared in the media about the possible departure of Bobby Kotick. We tell you what else happened after the news about the deal.

There has been a big discussion on Reddit about programming languages that have been used to develop video games at various times. Users recalled games written in BASIC, the era of assembler and the transition to C++, and also shared stories from their own practice.Assembly language was used in the 80s and early 90s.