On June 26, the open beta of the MultiVersus fighting game started. By the evening, the peak online games on Steam exceeded 144.4 thousand people (according to SteamDB), which is significantly more than the rest of the Warner Bros. projects.

On Wednesday, the “Popular Novelties” section of Steam was headed by two projects created by domestic teams. We are talking about the Cartel Tycoon strategy, developed by the St. Petersburg Moon Moose, and about the first-person shooter Blood and Zombies, created by the distributed Wild Monkey team (some of its employees are from Naberezhnye Chelny). We briefly talk about the projects.

This conclusion was reached by Rune Skovbo Johansen, who analyzed the statistics of the GMTK Game Jam game development marathon.

Wizards of the Coast, which owns the rights to the Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons franchises, has launched a sixth game development studio. It is called Skeleton Key and is located in Austin.

Serious problems with the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are reported by journalist Jason Schreier with reference to their own sources.

Sydney-based Immutable, which deals with blockchain games, is making cuts. The company itself did not publicly report this, but its former game designer James Wakeham complained about the dismissals.

Yesterday, Capcom held a presentation for investors, during which it not only shared the financial results of the last quarter, but also announced the sales of the main IP by June 30, 2022.

In May, the analytical company Newzoo predicted that by the end of 2022, the gaming market will earn $ 203.1 billion. Now she thinks otherwise. We share the main updated figures.

Square Enix sold Western studios for a relatively small $300 million, because Sony was interested in buying its Tokyo division. Stephane D’Astous, founder and former CEO of Eidos Montreal, said this in an interview GamesIndustry.biz .

Microsoft reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, ended June 30. The company reported that gaming revenues decreased by 7%. Sales of “iron” sank the most — by 11% at once compared to last year.

Singapore-based Mighty Bear Games has announced that it has sold $10 million worth of tokens to investors. Now the studio intends to spend the proceeds on creating a series of AAA games with blockchain. The first game within it — Mighty Action Heroes — should be released within a year.

China wants to become a global leader in the export of cultural values. Local officials have prepared a plan that should help the Celestial Empire achieve this title in three years. There was also a place for video games in it.

A year ago, Ilya Tumenko, a former Publishing Director at AppQuantum, together with an anonymous investor, launched his own publishing house — 10k Riders Publishing. It became known that the company recently raised $ 500 thousand. This money was given by Embria venture capital firm.

The VG Insights service estimated that from January to June, premium games on Steam earned a total of $3.1 billion (excluding IAP). Although this is 3% more than last year, it’s too early to rejoice. As analysts have suggested, by the end of 2022, the total sales of such titles will remain at the level of 2021 or even fall.

The Indian market has seriously attracted the attention of PUBG developers. In an interview with TechCrunch, the head of Krafton India mentioned that since 2020, the South Korean company has managed to invest $ 100 million in the region. She is going to invest the same amount or more before the end of this year. She also has plans to release several new games.

Capcom shared the results of the first fiscal quarter ended June 30. The Japanese company said that its net sales sank to $184.6 million (-47.9%), and operating profit — to $88.27 (-48.9%).

Chinese gamers greeted the release of Diablo Immortal with enthusiasm. According to SCMP, yesterday the queues to connect to some popular servers exceeded 5 thousand people. But not everyone who managed to play was happy with what they saw.

Meta* became interested in the Canadian startup AdHawk Microsystems. According to Bloomberg, the corporation is thinking about what to officially offer him a deal in the coming weeks.

In mid-May, the developers of the urban planner Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic released a charity DLC, the proceeds from the sale of which they promised to donate to Ukraine. The other day, the studio reported that it sold 5,575 copies of the add-on, collecting $ 26.1 thousand.