Blizzard Entertainment wants to simplify the creation of graphic elements for games. The Gamerant portal drew attention to the fact that the company has filed a patent for a technology that allows using AI to generate textures and other similar game assets.

The 415-page report of the British regulator on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard continues to find new details. Now it has noticed that the regulator intends to block the takeover immediately for a decade.

The Canadian studio Phoenix Labs has made cuts. She fired 9% of the employees, leaving about 30 people out of work.

Today, on May 2, the release of the vampire shooter Redfall took place. The critics didn’t like him very much. At the time of writing the news, Redfall has the lowest rating on Metacritic among Arkane Studios games.

Analysts noticed that the owners of PlayStation consoles do not buy new games, the cost of creating and promoting some major game franchises reached $ 1 billion, the audience of Minecraft Legends exceeded 3 million people in less than two weeks — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Bombora Publishing House announced the departure of Jeff Ryan‘s book “Super Mario. How Nintendo Conquered the World” (in the original — Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America). In the center of the narrative is the story of the development of the American daughter of Nintendo and the story of how the Japanese company itself was rebuilt into a gaming giant. We publish the first chapter of the book.

Rovio is another gaming company that shared a financial report today. The creators of Angry Birds told how the first quarter of 2023 passed for them.

Paradox Interactive has published a report for the first quarter of 2023. The company’s revenue grew, but operating profit fell by 25% at once.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has published its decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. He concluded that the purchase would not reduce competition in the country’s gaming market.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could convince the British regulator to block the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. This was stated in an interview with CNBC by the head of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick.

The era is gone. From June 1, 2023, Alawar will stop distributing games through the digital platform of the same name, which has been operating since 2003.

Today, April 28, the release of the action Star Wars Jedi: Survivor took place. The game caused negative emotions among gamers: 75% of the reviews she received during the first hours on Steam were negative.

Sony has released a report for fiscal year 2022, which ended on March 31, 2023. We tell you how this period passed for the gaming division of the company.

Victoria Belyaeva, who is responsible for business development and PR at AppQuantum, has prepared a guide on how to properly approach the issue of making an investment pitch.

On April 26, the company miHoYo, previously noted for the popular Genshin Impact, released a turn-based RPG Honkai: Star Rail on PC and smartphones. The very next day, the game’s downloads exceeded 20 million.

On April 26, the British regulator imposed a ban on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Microsoft President Brad Smith said on the BBC that he was disappointed with this decision and believes that it will have a bad impact on the UK itself.

In the first quarter of 2023, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of € 5.2 million, according to the portal dev.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax inspectorate. This is more than any other IT company in the country.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: a leading UA manager at Dankolab, a game designer at Airicore and the head of sales in the Payler gaming direction.

Microsoft Corporation tried to acquire a publisher engaged in mobile games. Mention of this is in the report of the British regulator, which is dedicated to the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.