However, the game sold twice as bad as the new Saints Row during its debut week. This is written by journalist Christopher Dring (Christopher Dring) from GamesIndustry.biz .

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 35th week of the year.

NAFI and the Video Game Industry Development Organization released a study on the Russian gaming market, the creator of The Callisto Protocol was criticized for approving the crunch culture, and Lockwood Publishing decided to cut 15% of the company’s employees — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Initially, it was supposed to end on December 31, 2022.

This is 55% of the revenue of the global market, calculated in Niko Partners.

This is reported by Interfax with reference to Maxim Parshin, deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Applications are still being accepted in pilot mode, the full launch of the program is scheduled for October.

Technical director of the studio Mark James, in an interview with TrueAchievements, admitted that The Callisto Protocol will not appear in the Game Pass in the near future. In his opinion, such subscriptions are more suitable for open-world multiplayer games than single-player horror.

She has already opened access to the first module, which tells about burnout. Riot Games is working on the course together with the non-profit organization Take This, which became a partner of the studio in May 2022.

Apple has settled the conflict with Kosta Eleftheriou, a critic of the App Store. The developer claimed that the company prevented the sales of his FlickType application, put a lot of clones and scammers into the store, and also copied other people’s products herself.

The studio was founded by industry veteran Joel Benton, who previously worked at Codemasters, Just Add Water and The Aon Agency.

This is the most successful start in the history of the series, said studio Sandlot and publisher D3Publisher.

Another developers opposed the PQube publisher. The creators of AeternoBlade II said that the British company paid them only a small part of the minimum guarantees. After the studio terminated the contract, PQube refused to return the rights to publish the console version of the game in Europe.

According to Reuters, the cuts affect two divisions — Garena and Sea Labs. Dozens of people may be left without work.

The game earned most of the amount in China, reports data.ai . Analysts have estimated that after the release of League of Legends: Wild Rift in this country, the revenue of the project increased seven times at once.

The owners of the Pokémon brand have sued the studios that operate the Pocket Monster Reissue mobile game.

The head of Activision Blizzard reacted to the statement of the British regulator. According to him, now many companies in the gaming industry are actively engaged in purchases, so there is nothing surprising in the desire of the authorities to better understand what is happening.

The experience of localization into Arabic on the example of Solitaire Cruise, — in his column on App2Top.ru Executive producer Yevgeny Gilmanov and lead localization manager Denis Ivanov from Belka Games, as well as project manager Eleonora Artemyeva from Inlingo shared.

The UK authorities are not yet ready to approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. The local regulator, in particular, fears that Microsoft may use control over Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and other franchises to harm competitors.

TaleWorlds Entertainment bought shares of UDO Games from venture capital companies WePlay Ventures and Lima Ventures, which previously invested $ 420 thousand in the studio.