The administration of St. Petersburg became interested in the metaverse. According to the vice-governor of the city Stanislav Kazarin, she wants to use metaverse technologies for state platforms.

Russian developers will soon be able to claim a new benefit. The authorities of the Kaliningrad region are going to reimburse them part of the money spent on the creation of games. Andrey Tolmachev, General Director of the Kaliningrad Region Development Corporation, told about this during his speech at the SPIEF.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Game Insight is leaving Russia. The company liquidates the organization and fires people. Some people are invited to support existing products in a new LLC.

Last week, CD Projekt shares fell by 9% in a day, falling to 93 zloty ($20.7) apiece. Their price has not been so low since 2017. Polish news publication today Bankier.pl it gathered the opinions of analysts about what the group of companies can expect next.

Hypemasters, founded by immigrants from Russia, received investments from three companies. According to VentureBeat, GEM Capital invested $ 2 million in the studio, another $ 1 million — The Games Fund, and $ 250 thousand — Ludus.

40% of Joy-Con owners for the Nintendo Switch faced stick drift, the British human rights organization Which? found out. She said that Nintendo should look into the problem and conduct an independent investigation. It is also desirable that the company “unconditionally” and free of charge replace all faulty controllers.

Another large gaming company may leave Russia. The Shazoo portal drew attention to the fact that resumes of employees of the Russian branch of Bethesda began to appear on job search sites. Journalists have suggested that there are massive cuts in the studio.

Lesta Games Studio will work closely with VK. The companies entered into a partnership during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a level designer at Hypercell Games and a game producer at Geeky House.

In the latest report ResearchAndMarkets.com I drew attention to the market of “serious” games — games on educational, medical or other topics that cannot be called completely entertaining.

Meta* is going to make VR headsets safer for children. She has released an update for Meta Quest with new parental control tools.

Israeli Odeeo announced a new round of funding. She received $9 million from investors, which she is going to spend on the development of her advertising tool.

At the beginning of the year Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo and Alan Van Slyke from Sperasoft founded a new game studio — Arctic7. Now they have announced the first expansion, launching a division in Montenegro.

Meta* together with the French company Simplon decided to independently train specialists who will be able to work in the metaverse. According to Agence France-Presse, they plan to open a so-called “metaverse academy” and train about 100 future professionals in the first year.

One of the central metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of advertising is eCPM. What is its difference from CPM, how it is calculated and why it cannot be unconditionally relied on, — he told in his column for App2Top.ru Mark Rodriguez, Product Marketing and Growth Manager at Appodeal.

App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is a framework that iOS developers should use to request users’ permission to track personal data. The other day, he attracted the attention of the Federal Office for Combating Cartels in Germany.

Famitsu estimated that Japanese gamers bought 1.6 million discs of games in May. The Nintendo Switch Sports was in the greatest demand — almost 420 thousand people purchased cartridges with it.

King has announced the acquisition. She was joined by Peltarion, which is known for the cloud AI platform of the same name. How much the authors of Candy Crush Saga had to pay for this purchase is not disclosed.

The new offices will be located in Belgrade and Warsaw. According to Wargaming, they will employ about 400 people.