Last night, Deep Silver publishing house announced that in its very first weekend, the zombie extermination shooter Dead Island 2 reached the mark of one million copies sold. And this is without a release on Steam!

Danish studio Sybo has set a course to expand the Subway Surfers franchise. The other day there was a worldwide release of a new game under this brand. The novelty is called Subway Surfers Blast. This is a clone of Toon Blast.

VK announced that the VK Play platform has turned one year old (although we remember that it is built on the basis of My.Games Store, which, in turn, is the heiress of the “Games” platform Mail.Ru “). In honor of this event, the holding shared statistics.

Against the background of numerous news about the termination of support for internal development tools, the latest message from Guerrilla Games (Horizon and Killzone series) stands out. According to him, this studio does not intend to abandon its engine.

The Serbian Gaming Association (SGA) has published a report on the Serbian gaming industry by the end of 2022. We briefly share the main thing from it.

Vera Velichko, CEO of OWL studio, spoke about the tasks in which neural networks can help CG artists today, and in which – you should not expect much from them.

Game developers continue to form unions. This time, a group of 144 employees of the American division of SEGA announced plans to form an association.

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the court’s decision in the case of Epic Games and Apple, issued in September 2021. He refused to satisfy the Fortnite developer 9 out of 10 charges and did not consider Apple a monopolist.

The conflict between NetEase and Blizzard Entertainment continues to develop. According to Sina Technology, the Chinese company filed a lawsuit against Blizzard and demanded to pay her ¥300 million or about $ 43.5 million.

Zombie action game Dead Island 2 is in demand among gamers from the UK. According to the analytical firm GfK, it showed the third largest number of physical copies sold in the country in 2023.

On Wednesday, April 26, the British regulator is due to make a decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Financial Times journalists expect him to approve the takeover.

The problematic release did not prevent Wild Hearts and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty from selling well. In the annual financial report, Koei Tecmo reported that both games showed a successful start.

The mobile version of the Uma Musume Pretty Derby game about horse girls competing at the racetrack has a new achievement. Sensor Tower estimates that by April 2023, its revenue exceeded $2 billion.

Steam users were disappointed with the remake of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, a new Square Enix game that added a neural network. Within a day of its release, it received 90% negative reviews.

In 2017, the British studio World Makers released an occult version of “Mafia” called Deceit. Now she is working on the continuation of the multiplayer horror. The developers recently received $4 million from investors to create the game.

More and more IT companies are appearing in Russia. According to “TASS” with reference to the study of the “Business Environment”, in the first quarter of 2023, 13% more IT companies were registered in the country than a year ago. No other segment has achieved such growth.

Microsoft denied the rumor that Hi-Fi RUSH did not meet the company’s expectations, the quest director of Cyberpunk 2077 said that it was becoming too difficult to make AAA games, the circulation of NieR: Automata exceeded 7.5 million copies, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Bombora Publishing house reported that the book “Peter Molyneux appeared on Russian shelves. The story of the developer who created the “god simulator” genre. It is written by the French gaming journalist Raphael Lucas. In it, together with Molyneux himself, he traces the entire path of the game entrepreneur and developer from the first sales to the current work at 22Cans. We publish an excerpt.

On June 7-8, two events will be held in Istanbul in close conjunction — the WN Conference and AI For Business. What to expect from them, we tell in our material.