The authors of GameMaker have announced plans to integrate a neural network into the engine. It will help developers with writing code, creating placeholders, restoring images, and other tasks.

In the gaming industry, the work of screenwriters is underestimated, says David Gaider, the author of the Dragon Age and Baldur’s Gate scripts. Even BioWare, which achieved success thanks to well-written characters and stories, eventually began to consider expensive scripts a burden.

Tomorrow, May 4, WN Media Group will launch a series of free webinars in English AI Talks. Every Thursday, experts in the field of artificial intelligence and neural networks will share insiders and the latest news in the field.

The developers of the tropical adventure Tchia announced that the audience of their project has reached the million mark. It took the game a month and a half to do this.

The creators of Street Fighter 6 see great potential in the game. In an interview with Famitsu, the president of Capcom said that the company expects to sell at least 10 million copies of the fighting game for all time.

Pokémon Go revenue is declining. According to MobileGamer with reference to AppMagic data, in April the Niantic AR-game earned $34.7 million. This is a monthly minimum since February 2018.

On May 3, new rules for the placement of trailers began to take effect on Steam. Now developers can add a maximum of two videos before screenshots, all the others will be displayed at the end of the gallery.

In April, Appodeal released a report on global mobile eCPM for the first quarter of 2023 (January-March). The most important of the research is in the column of Marc Rodriguez, the company’s Product Marketing and Growth Manager.

On April 6, ROCKFISH Games released the Everspace 2 space shooter after a year of early access. To date, only the Steam version of the game has sold 300 thousand copies and brought developers over $ 9.9 million in gross revenue.

The vampire shooter Redfall left players disappointed and became the lowest-rated Arkane Studios project on Metacritic. According to rumors, Microsoft also did not expect much from the game and wanted to finish development as soon as possible.

Sources of The Wall Street Journal report that Unity is making new cuts. She decided to lay off 8% of the employees, or about 600 people.

Square Enix reported that users around the world have bought the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series games over 2 million times. How sales were distributed across platforms is not specified.

Composer Ryo Nagamatsu has announced his retirement from Nintendo. He has been cooperating with a Japanese company for 17 years.

Blizzard Entertainment wants to simplify the creation of graphic elements for games. The Gamerant portal drew attention to the fact that the company has filed a patent for a technology that allows using AI to generate textures and other similar game assets.

The 415-page report of the British regulator on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard continues to find new details. Now it has noticed that the regulator intends to block the takeover immediately for a decade.

The Canadian studio Phoenix Labs has made cuts. She fired 9% of the employees, leaving about 30 people out of work.

Today, on May 2, the release of the vampire shooter Redfall took place. The critics didn’t like him very much. At the time of writing the news, Redfall has the lowest rating on Metacritic among Arkane Studios games.

Analysts noticed that the owners of PlayStation consoles do not buy new games, the cost of creating and promoting some major game franchises reached $ 1 billion, the audience of Minecraft Legends exceeded 3 million people in less than two weeks — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Bombora Publishing House announced the departure of Jeff Ryan‘s book “Super Mario. How Nintendo Conquered the World” (in the original — Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America). In the center of the narrative is the story of the development of the American daughter of Nintendo and the story of how the Japanese company itself was rebuilt into a gaming giant. We publish the first chapter of the book.