Wanted: Senior game designer at Wargaming, Unity developer at DS1 Games and interface designer at Targem Games.

Embracer Group announced the purchase of five companies at once, including Dark Horse and Perfect World Entertainment. The latter will become part of Gearbox Entertainment, and the deal itself will cost $ 125 million.Neverwinter

At the end of May, SberGames and Soyuzmultfilm agreed to make mobile educational games for children together. They have recently published their first projects, and now they have reported on the results.

Over the past year and a half, dozens of key developers who worked on its main AAA hits have left Ubisoft. The employees themselves call the situation a “Great Outcome” and note that this is an unprecedented phenomenon for the company. Among the reasons for leaving are low salaries, dissatisfaction with management and creative vision.

Rec Room is a social VR platform on which users can build their game worlds and communicate with each other. The company received $145 million from investors, as a result of which its valuation increased to $3.5 billion.

Newzoo analysts together with the Pangle platform have prepared a report on mobile RPG. They talked about the income of the genre, popular mechanics and monetization strategies, as well as the demographics of such games. We share the main thing from the study.

Kaliningrad studio Pictolabra stops working. Its employees believe that the decision to close was made by the MGVC investment fund. That’s just his share in the studio is less than one percent. We tried to understand the situation. Photo: Pictolabra official website

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Evgeny Polotnyanko, the head of the Odnoklassniki social network gaming platform.

Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent is expanding. At the end of last week, the company became the owner of the Ukrainian mobile studio RinGames. The full terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Denis Khamin, co-owner of the game localization and 2D art outsourcing studio Allcorrect.

Russian censors can start using neural networks. One of the centers controlled by Roskomnadzor suggested using AI to search for prohibited content in video games. But, according to experts, this can seriously affect the availability of games.

Last week, the first place in the Steam bestseller chart was again taken by the Halo Infinite story campaign. But Cyberpunk 2077 and FIFA 22 this time could not get into the list of the best-selling games of the week.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski shared data on how many vishlist developers usually receive in the first two weeks after the launch of the game page on Steam. He talked about the averages and explained why low performance at the start does not guarantee failure.A small analysis by Zhukovsky is based on data on 58 games on Steam.

Tencent will once again be able to update a number of its applications in China. The company managed to reach an agreement with the authorities three weeks after the ban was issued. However, it is unclear whether the restriction on the release of new mobile products will remain valid.The decision was made by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the South China Morning Post reports.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Yaminsky, co-founder of Azur Games.

Two days ago, the studio GSC Game World* announced that a unique metaverse with NFTs would appear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2**. However, a flood of criticism from the gaming community forced the company to abandon this idea.

French Voodoo has decided to pay more attention to mobile blockchain games. She announced that next year she will invest $200 million in such projects. The money will go both to finance third-party teams and to create internal studios.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Konstantin Ivanov, brand director of AdQuantum.

Last week, Ubisoft announced Quartz, a platform where gamers can trade “NFT cosmetics” for the company’s AAA titles. The first items have already appeared on the site, but users are not ready to pay a lot for them. The largest amount they agree to give is ꜩ14 ($65.56).