Following the leak about the closure of Onoma (formerly Square Enix Montreal), an official press release with new details appeared.

The Swedish gaming holding closed the Canadian studio Onoma, formerly known as Square Enix Montreal, just a few months after its purchase.

Activision announced that in the first three days of sales, which fell at the beginning of the weekend, the revenue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reached $800 million. This is the highest-grossing opening weekend in the history of the franchise.

A little more about the Celestial Empire. The National Administration for Press and Publications of China has not issued a single gaming license for October. For the first time since July.

According to the forecast of Niko Partners, the revenue of the Chinese video game market by the end of 2022 will amount to $45.4 billion. This is 2.5% less than a year earlier. For almost a quarter of a century, there has been no drop in indicators.

American developer Spry Fox has joined Netflix. Now the serial colossus has six internal game studios.

This does not include device sales.

As a result of the study, analysts from VK Play and ITMO National Research University came to such conclusions, who again took up the calculation of educational programs and courses in the country.

It turns out that in addition to Small Giant Games, Zynga had another studio in the capital of Finland. She was involved in the development and operation of the last part of Farmville. Now the studio is being shut down (most of its employees have already been laid off), and its project has been transferred to Bangalore for support.

Despite the fact that the financial year of the Japanese Square Enix ended on March 31, the company for some reason decided to publish a large final document on it only now. In it, among other things, there are sales figures of the three main role-playing series of the company for the entire time of their existence.

The story is about how UGC easily opens up blue oceans of possibilities.

On October 28, the world release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II took place. A weekend later, the first information about sales appeared. No specific figures, unfortunately. However, even without them, it is clear that the shooter is doing very well at the start.

We study the Steam sales chart for the 43rd week of the year, and at the same time explain what the new Modern Warfare II series Call of Duty is.

Rovio reports revenue growth, Hogwarts Legacy becomes the most coveted game on Steam, and Sega shares the successes of Sonic and Total War – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week we are looking for: a game designer at ZiMAD, a 2D animator at ExoGenesis and a game designer at JustMoby.

The Wargaming gaming company paid taxes in the amount of €2.9 million to the Lithuanian treasury in July-September, and the number of its team in the country doubled in March-October.

The local team will support existing projects – Angry Birds Friends and Dream Blast. It will work “in tandem” with the head office located in Finland.

Ubisoft reported yesterday for the first half of its fiscal year (it started in April 2022, and will end in March 2023). Officially, the company reports success, but its reports speak of big problems.

The YouTube channel of the blogger “Upolo Fortnite” published an investigation about the activities of an employee of Epic Games Alexey Gromsky. He is accused of creating corruption schemes related to Fortnite.