Bayonetta and NieR: Automata developers are not against collaborating with Microsoft again. According to blogger and insider eXtas1stv, citing its own sources, the Japanese studio Platinum Games asked the corporation to finance and publish its next game.

In fiscal 2022, Nintendo actively hired employees. Even with the closure of two North American offices, the company’s staff grew by 143 people. At the same time, the average minimum annual salary decreased by $6.5 thousand at once.

Sony has received another class action lawsuit due to faulty equipment. This time, the PS5 is at the center of the dispute. According to dissatisfied users, sometimes the console suddenly turns off right during the game. Although almost two years have passed since the release of the PS5, the company has allegedly not yet released a patch that fixes this problem.

At the end of winter, Elon Musk said that he wanted to integrate Steam into Tesla electric cars. Apparently, his company has made significant progress since then. According to the billionaire, the store can earn money on Tesla’s on-board computers as early as August.

New Week — new Steam sales chart. Let’s see which games earned the most in the Valve store in the period from July 11 to 17.

According to a number of media reports, Microsoft has handed over to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) several more documents related to the upcoming purchase of Activision Blizzard. Now the antimonopoly authority has 30 days to request additional information, or the transaction will be automatically approved.

Bungie officially joined Sony, the head of Unity apologized for harsh words about developers, and in the UK they called for protecting children from loot boxes — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

More than 70 redditors complained about a bug in the Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout store. They said that they automatically bought skins and other in-game items when they just wanted to take a closer look at those on the preview.

Americans’ spending on video games, hardware and accessories has been falling for the seventh month in a row. According to NPD Group analysts, in June, the revenue of the US gaming market decreased by 11% compared to last year and amounted to $4.3 billion.

A new publisher has appeared on the gaming market. Italian Digital Bros has announced the launch of a subsidiary company Hook, which will publish indie games.

The Novosibirsk School of the Olympic Reserve in shooting sports will now prepare for the esports championships. According to Vesti Novosibirsk, the country’s first esports school has opened on its basis.

Square Enix has introduced the Live Interactive Works Game Development Crew (LIW GDC), a community for game bloggers and streamers who want to test new projects of the Japanese publisher and comment on them.

The South Korean gaming market is the fourth largest in the world. Newzoo estimates that he earned $8.3 billion last year. Analysts also noted that only 38% of local gamers spent money in games.

Despite the current decline in the cryptocurrency market, game studios continue to receive money from investors for blockchain projects. This time, the funding round was announced by UnCaged Studios, which is developing a football MonkeyLeague within the framework of the “play to earn” concept.

Asia remains the largest esports market. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, last year the turnover of the global esports market reached $1.1 billion — Asian countries were responsible for $634.3 million of this amount.

Hypemasters studio has been working on the mobile strategy of World War Armies for two years. One of the main challenges for her was to create an interface. It was necessary to find a compromise between classic PC strategy management and convenience. What compromises had to be made for this, — said Boris Kiselyov, director of the studio for UX.

After the rumors about the dismissal of the Gigaya team and the change in Unity strategy, some developers decided to ask the company how things were going with the project. The answer was disappointing. The company confirmed that it was stopping work on the platformer, which was supposed to clearly show how the engine works.

John Riccitiello, who heads Unity, responded to the criticism of developers regarding the merger of his company with ironSource. In an interview with PocketGamer.biz he stated that the developers who do not think about monetization at the early stages of creating the game are “wonderful people, but they are also damn idiots.”

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week we are looking for: a game designer at ZiMAD, a BI developer at Dankolab and a 2D concept environment artist at ExoGenesis.