The publisher Innova, known for localization of many MMO for the Russian market, became part of the Swedish holding EG7. The transaction amount was €109 million.Innova will receive €109.8 million in the form of 9.7 million shares of Enad Global 7 AB holding, and the deal itself does not involve additional payments.

One of the largest forums about video games ResetEra has banned advertising on its website Hogwarts Legacy, a new game based on “Harry Potter”. The reason for this is the scandalous statements of J. K. Rowling and a leading designer who supports gamergate.

The restart of the multiplayer shooter Anthem will not take place. Electronic Arts has abandoned the project that BioWare studio has been working on since 2019. Now the developers will focus on the new Dragon Age and Mass Effect, as well as updates for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The game currency is the basis of any frituplein economy, according to the product manager of Tilting Point Javier Barnes (Javier Barnes). In total, he identifies 11 of its types.

Wanted: Mobile marketing manager at Gaijin Entertainment, executive producer for Belka Games and game analyst at AppQuantum.  

Sensor Tower analytical company has published a big forecast for the mobile market. By 2025, annual consumer spending on applications in Russia will reach $2.7 billion, and in the world this figure will amount to $270 billion. At the same time, more than half of the total amount will be spent on games.General forecast

The ironSource marketing company continues to expand. Now she has acquired Luna Labs, a startup that specializes in services for creating interactive advertising and videos for mobile applications.

The number of downloads of NieR Re[in]carnation exceeded 5 million. It took the mobile game a little less than a week to do this. At the same time, the project is now available only in Japan.The developers announced the achievement in the official Twitter account.

Yesterday it became known that Days Gone will be the next PlayStation exclusive to appear on PC. Obviously, Sony wants to expand its audience in this way. However, there were other factors that influenced the company’s decision to port its games to another platform.This was stated in an interview with GQ by Jim Ryan, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

SuperData analysts shared a fresh overview of the digital gaming market. Among the most successful projects in January are Valorant and Red Dead Redemption 2.

The Chinese AAA game Black Myth: Wukong is still far from release, but local developers are already copying its visual style. They use someone else’s project to create misleading commercials for their mobile projects.

As expected, Blizzard did not show any new IP on BlizzConline. However, the company presented the trailer of the robber from Diablo IV, revealed the details of Overwatch 2, announced a remaster of Diablo II for PC and consoles, and one of the main curiosities was Twitch’s attempt to avoid the DMCA during Metallica’s performance.

Artie continues to develop a platform for instant games with support for not only JavaScript and HTML5, but also Unity. The startup has raised $10 million from investors, including the founders of Zynga and Shutterstock. The developers also plan to release the SDK.Investors include Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer, YouTube co—founder Chad Hurley, and Thirty Five Ventures, co-founded by basketball player Kevin Durant.

Valheim survival simulator continues to conquer the Steam charts. This time, the project entered the top hundred of the highest-rated games of the service. All this against the background of sales of three million copies of the title.

Today it is difficult to satisfy the personnel hunger of domestic gaming companies. Their global success requires significant scaling, which is impossible if only specialists from game dev are involved.

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Ivan Nikitin, the product manager at Sensorium Galaxy.

American Bungie decided to expand. The company plans to build a large new headquarters, open its first foreign division and engage in games not only on Destiny.

Producer Egor Vasiliev wrote a lot of material about the experience of cloning a game in the genre of “spot the difference”. He talked about budgets, difficulties during development, softlonch, release and first results.

We have prepared a video in which we talk about the brightest upcoming releases from domestic developers on “big” platforms.