News October 14, 2022 Devolver Digital gave the authors of Cult of the Lamb almost twice as much money as they asked for The creators of Cult of the Lamb mentioned this in an interview with SmartCompany. They said that the company surprised with its generosity — publishers often try to spend as little as possible, while Devolver Digital offered them $ 500 thousand instead of the requested $ 300 thousand.
News October 14, 2022 A refund function has appeared in RuStore VK has released an update for its mobile store. Now application developers for RuStore can track user payments and, if necessary, make refands.
News October 14, 2022 BONELAB has earned $1 million in less than an hour since its release — this is only in the Quest Store VR action has become the fastest selling game in the history of Quest Store.
News October 14, 2022 Research: no one wants to buy mobile gaming companies that do not publish games This is the conclusion reached by Pollen VC analysts. They studied the deals* on the gaming market, which were announced in the period from March 2021 to February 2022.
News October 14, 2022 The head of the department responsible for the company’s development in India has left Krafton Anuj Tandon became the second executive in a year who decided to leave Krafton India. In February, the head of the publishing division, Aneesh Aravind, resigned from the company.
News October 14, 2022 In 2022, the French gaming market will earn $4.3 billion It will become the seventh largest market in the world. This is stated in a recent Newzoo study.
News October 14, 2022 Meta* urged the court to dismiss the FTC lawsuit prohibiting the purchase of a VR developer Within Unlimited The company claims that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the lawsuit is guided by assumptions and “ignores the facts with the law.”
News October 14, 2022 Take-Two closes Playdots, Two Dots Developer Studio New York Playdots will stop working on March 31, 2023. According to the management of Take-Two, the decision to close the studio was not easy, but it had to be taken for economic reasons.
News October 13, 2022 Nintendo reached an agreement with a tester who accused the company of banning trade unions As part of the settlement agreement, the company undertook to pay Mackenzie Clifton $26 thousand.
Vacancies October 13, 2022 Vacancies of the week: ZiMAD, Funky Monkey Studio and ExoGenesis are looking for employees We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game analyst at ZiMAD, a Unity developer at Funky Monkey Studio and a 2D concept environment artist at ExoGenesis.
News October 13, 2022 South Korean Lionheart Studios has changed its mind about going public The developers of Odin: Valhalla Rising expected to attract up to ₩604.2 billion ($422 million) with the help of the listing. If they succeeded, their IPO would be the second largest in South Korea in 2022, according to Bloomberg.
News October 13, 2022 Konami is going to launch a platform for trading in-game NFT Konami did not specify when exactly the marketplace will open. Now she is looking for specialists who will help develop both the NFT business and the metaverse direction.
News October 13, 2022 PS5 became the fourth fastest selling console in the UK market British sales of the PS5 have surpassed the milestone of 2 million copies, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data. It took 98 weeks for the console to do this.
News October 13, 2022 The creators of State of Survival were sued because of fictitious sales in the game The lawsuit was filed in the Federal court of California. Its authors claim that FunPlus publisher and KingsGroup studio have been deceiving users of the mobile game State of Survival for years.
News October 13, 2022 NetEase invested in outsourcers Genshin Impact and Harry Potter: Magic Awakened The Chinese giant bought a 9.74% stake in Xunqi Technology from Wuhan. How much NetEase paid for them is not reported.
News October 13, 2022 Tuque Games studio changed its name to Invoke Studios The authors of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance did not explain why they decided to rebrand. But they reported that they plan to actively expand the studio — now it employs 80 people, and by 2025 the number of employees should exceed 250 people.
News October 13, 2022 World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Tanks Blitz officially renamed in Russia and Belarus Now these games are called “World of Tanks”, “World of Ships” and Tanks Blitz.
News October 13, 2022 Activision Blizzard has received a new lawsuit due to harassment in the company The lawsuit was filed by one of the employees of Activision Blizzard. She accused former product manager Miguel Vega of inappropriate behavior.
News October 13, 2022 The Russian government has allowed an experiment to create a domestic analogue of GitHub The corresponding resolution appeared on the portal of legal information. The experiment will last from November 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024.
News October 12, 2022 EA: the launch of FIFA 23 was the largest in the history of the franchise During the debut week, over 10.3 million people played the new part of the football simulator, according to Electronic Arts (EA).