On May 16, the Russian mobile app store NashStore turned one year old. In honor of the birthday, the stora team said that 2.7 million people have registered in it to date.

Indie bagel Darkest Dungeon II has sold over 500 thousand copies, according to developers from Red Hook Studios.

TelecomDaily agency shared an optimistic forecast for the Russian mobile games market. Analysts estimate that in five years its volume will grow by 52%: from $1.24 billion in 2022 to $1.88 billion in 2027.

Last night Ubisoft published a report for the fiscal year ended March 31. In it, the company reported significant operating losses and interest in AI.

Sea, the parent company of Garena, has published a report for the first quarter of 2023. She reported a sharp drop in the revenue of the gaming division.

Based on the Assassin’s Creed series, an NFT collection will be created. Ubisoft has granted Integral Reality Labs a license to issue non-interchangeable tokens.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia has once again invested in Electronic Arts (EA). At the beginning of the year, he bought 8.8 million shares of the company, increasing his stake in it to 9%.

From July 1, Steam disables support for “Google Analytics“. Apparently, in order to “sweeten the pill”, the platform promised to launch new tools for traffic analysis. About the upcoming innovations and the reaction of developers — in our material.

SteamDB service has published the top games that earned the most on Steam for the week from May 9 to May 16. It included Far Cry 6, which was released in the store last Thursday, and four Paradox Interactive projects were also placed in the top ten paid games at once.

The founder of the studio UnifiQ Games Seyed Nasrollahi (Seyed Nasrollahi) compiled a table with investors and publishers of indie games for consoles and PCs. There are 150 companies in it.

Two months ago, an Austrian court ruled that the loot boxes in the PlayStation version of FIFA are gambling mechanics, and accused Sony of violating the country’s legislation. In April, his decision came into force.

The release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has become one of the most successful in France. The newspaper Le Figaro, citing French retailers, reports that 500 thousand cartridges with the game were bought in the country during the debut week.

Recently it became known that layoffs took place in The Molasses Flood. CD PROJEKT representatives confirmed in a media commentary that the studio had indeed reduced some of its employees.

The European Commission has allowed Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $ 68.7 billion. This is the first major regulator to approve the deal.

The Molasses Flood is another game studio where layoffs took place. This is reported in social networks by her former employees.

Soda Den studio and Crytivo publisher could not agree on the game Roots of Pacha, a prehistoric farm simulator in the spirit of Stardew Valley. There were disagreements between them, as a result of which the project disappeared from Steam.

Developer Jason Wilson (also known as Jay Gunn) has announced the sale of his archive with concept art, script sketches and notes on gameplay solutions of the original MediEvil. He hopes that this will help him solve his financial problems.

WolfEye Studios, which game designer Raphael Colantonio founded after leaving Arkane, has started working on its second game. The studio claims that it will become more ambitious than Weird West, thanks to the just concluded partnership with the Galaxy Interactive venture fund.