French Voodoo has decided on serious changes. The company, which has been publishing mainly hyper-casual games for many years, will now also work with casual and hybrid projects.

The Jarvi Games studio registered in Cyprus has closed the seed round of financing. The main investor was the Play Ventures fund, along with Velo Partners and The Games Fund invested in the developers.

Cyberpunk 2077 is in great demand in “M.Video-Eldorado”. It surpassed all other multiplatform games in sales, including Red Dead Redemption 2, Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II.

Take-Two‘s “daughter” named the Private Division Development Fund. She said that the foundation will offer independent developers financial assistance and advice, but they will have to publish the games themselves.

The developer of 3ds Max and Maya is finally leaving Russia. In the database of the portal “Fedresurs” there was information that on November 30, Autodesk started the liquidation of AUTODESK (SI-ES) – the legal entity of the company in Russia.

Recently it became known that Playtika decided to reduce 15% of the staff or about 615 people in Europe, Israel and the USA. Portal dev.by found out how layoffs took place in the Minsk and Warsaw offices.

MTS continues its expansion into the gaming platform market. She launched a beta version of the service for the sale of keys for games – Rushbe.

Next week, the Bombora publishing house is going to release a work on another franchise — The Pokémon Generation. How the game saga that gave us Pikachu was created.” This is the story of the development and development of the cult Pokémon series, which covers not only games, but also anime, manga and many other projects.

Six months ago, the British studio Hutch Games, known for Rebel Racing and F1 Clash, switched to a four-day working week in the format of an experiment. It turned out to be so successful that the studio decided to continue working in this format.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top opens the traditional interview series “Results”, in which we interview top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones) about how the year has passed for their company and industry. This time we start the cycle with an interview with Roman Lukyanov, managing Partner of the Semenov & Pevzner law firm.

The editors of App2Top found out from hh.ru how the situation on the labor market in game dev has changed this year. Not for the better. The number of new gaming vacancies on the platform decreased from 8,072 in 2021 to 7,308 in 2022.

Online school XYZ School together with hh.ru announced the launch of a reality show. It will be called “XYZ Reality“. His heroes will master the game dev profession and find work in the industry.

Jagex has announced the acquisition of Croatian Gamepires, best known for SCUM survival. She did not disclose the purchase price.

Tesla has announced that owners of Model X and Model S electric cars can now launch Steam.

Developers from Studio MDHR have announced that The Delicious Last Course add-on for Cuphead has received a “double platinum” status. In four and a half months since the release, the DLC has sold 2 million copies.

Apple is going to seriously review the policy of its platform. According to Bloomberg, citing sources, next year the company will allow residents of EU countries to install alternative storages on iPhones and iPads.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science and a number of other departments to develop new measures to support the domestic video game and esports industries.

Safe Betting Sites has published the top 10 countries whose residents will spend the most on video games in 2022. When compiling the list, the portal relied on data from the analytical company Statista.

Another company has joined the game outsourcer Keywords Studios. He was joined by LabCom, an agency that helps with the promotion in Italy of Ubisoft, Bethesda, Wargaming, Rockstar Games and many other gaming companies.