At the beginning of the week, Space Ape Games studio announced that Boom Beach: Frontlines will be released as part of a softlonch in 19 more countries. There were a lot of people who wanted to play. In just two days, a million people have pre-registered in the game.

The new record of the game was reported by Sensor Tower analysts, who took into account only the spending of Google Play and App Store users. According to their calculations, over half of the amount was brought by gamers from the USA — $595.5 million (59.4%). The second and third places went to residents of Germany (5.8%) and the UK (4.5%).

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) intends to prevent Meta* from buying Within Unlimited, a developer of a fitness game for Supernatural virtual reality. The agency sued, saying that such a deal would lead to the creation of a monopoly.

Meta* has released a fresh financial report, in which, among other things, it told about the losses of Reality Labs. According to the corporation, the losses of the XR division for the first half of 2022 amounted to $5.76 billion — 35.4% more than a year ago.

According to the Bombora publishing house, the work of Brighton Robert Denton Bryant and Giglio Keith (Keith Giglio) “Kill the dragon! How to write brilliant scripts for video games.” The book is positioned as a guide to the world of video games, which will help you understand how to write game scripts better.

Rockstar is not what it used to be. Journalist Jason Schreier talked to employees who assure that the company has revised its work processes and has become more progressive.

The marketing agency Consumer Acquisition has released an infographic dedicated to mobile games that are made using the Unity engine. We have selected a few facts from it.

Indie developers will start receiving free PS5 devkits. Sony hopes that thanks to the new program, it will be able to improve the publishing process and lower the entry threshold on the PlayStation.

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.