Take-Two reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 (ended December 31). Sales of major franchises, including the acclaimed GTA remaster trilogy, helped the company increase revenue. However, its profit fell by almost $40 million.

Owners of a store with indie games itch.io opposed the NFT. According to the management of the portal, non—interchangeable tokens are fraud, and the companies supporting them think exclusively about their own profits.

Meta is dissatisfied with the European rules for storing user data. She warned about the possible closure of a number of services in the region if these rules are not revised. Instagram Facebook, among other things, may come under attack.

By the end of January App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human has an extremely successful start on Steam. Zombie action from Techland became the best-selling game of last week, capturing more than half of the places on the bestseller chart. He took six lines at once, including the first three.

The situation around the bans of accounts of iOS developers from Belarus has normalized. Apple started activating them back, and at the same time sent out a letter in which it apologizes and calls what happened a mistake.

Mobile developers from Belarus have started receiving messages about deactivation of accounts in the App Store. The official reason is US sanctions against the subject. UPDATED: The next morning Apple started to unlock everything back, writes that error.

The time of large transactions continues. Public Investment Fund (PIF, aka Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) has acquired stakes in two Japanese companies — Capcom and Nexon. In total, he spent more than $1 billion on their purchase.

Together with experts, we analyze whether Bungie really knows how to develop and operate games services, as well as how often transactions are made in the market, whose goal is to obtain expertise.

Bombora Publishing House has released the Russian book “Oculus. How to create the best VR company in the world and lose everything?“. First of all, this is the story of the rise and fall of the eccentric Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Rift virtual reality helmet. But there is also a part about the sale of his company to Facebook Corporation. We talk about the volume and publish an excerpt from it.

In 2022, new gachi mechanics will become widespread in mobile games. For example, the function of previewing items.Honkai Impact 3rd

Russian gaming retail is still alive. The total sales of console games in retail last year amounted to 1.8 million. The figure is not very large, but it is at the level of the pre-pandemic indicators of 2019.

What helps to extend the life cycle of the game in the modern PC market? This question was asked by the expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless). He highlighted several common features that are inherent in the most successful titles on Steam in terms of their findability in the store.Carless shared the results in his GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

Meta company reported for 2021. It seems that Apple’s new privacy policy has cost Facebook almost $10 billion in lost advertising revenue over the past two quarters. After the publication of the report, the company’s shares lost a lot in value.Analyst and marketing expert Eric Seufert drew attention to this.

As part of the Bungie purchase, Sony Interactive Entertainment management has already noted that the studio hopes for expert assistance from the Bellevue game studio. However, it has only now become known how ambitious these plans are.

The founder of Xsolla, Alexander Agapitov, is no longer its CEO. His post was taken by Konstantin Golubitsky, who previously held the position of technical director of the company.

The day before yesterday we wrote that in Russia they are going to issue grants for the development of patriotic video games. The Internet Development Institute (IRI) will distribute them. Is this so and how much is such a grant news at all?

Sony’s gaming division shared its results for the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). Despite generally good performance, sales of games and hardware have fallen. The company is unable to cope with the demand for the PS5, which now lags behind the PS4 in terms of the number of devices sold over the same period.The main thing from the financial report

Electronic Arts reported for the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). Total cash receipts turned out to be a record, despite disappointing sales of Battlefield 204 2. The franchise is not being written off, but Apex Legends has now become the flagship shooter for the publisher.The main thing from the financial report