Milestone has announced that it has sold over 2 million copies of Hot Wheels Unleashed since September 30, 2021. At the same time, the total audience of the racing game exceeded 8 million people.

Chinese gaming companies have started hiring artists less. In a comment to the Rest of the World portal, recruiter Leo Li said that over the past year the number of new vacancies for artists has decreased by 70%.

Almost half of the world’s population plays video games, according to the analytical company DFC Intelligence. According to her estimates, now the global audience of video games is 3.7 billion people.

At the end of March, the court rejected the lawsuit of gamers from the United States who tried to prevent Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. Three weeks later, they again decided to oppose the deal and filed a new version of the lawsuit.

Tokyo police arrested a 41-year-old Konami employee. He is suspected of attempted murder of his former boss: on April 11, he attacked the head of one of the company’s departments and hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher.

Chinese giant NetEase will sue Taiwanese musician Jay Chou. He accused the company of unfair competition and using his image to promote the MMORPG Tian Xia III.

Sandsoft Games, a mobile publisher headquartered in Saudi Arabia, has announced global ambitions. He expects that in five years he will be able to compete with Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Tencent and NetEase.

Media Molecule Studio announced that from September 1, 2023, it will stop releasing updates for Dreams, a designer whose users can create their own games.

On April 11, Devolver Digital published its financial report for 2022. Although the company reported revenue growth, investors were not very happy with the results.

Take-Two Interactive decided to raise additional funds. She announced that she intends to sell $1 billion worth of bonds as part of a new public offering.

Google used its position in the Korean mobile store market to harm the local One Store app store. This is the conclusion reached by the antimonopoly regulator of South Korea. He issued the company a fine of 42.1 billion won or $32 million.

The artist under the nickname Relan Daevath claims that ZeniMax Online Studios used his art to create a new skin in The Elder Scrolls Online. At the same time, the studio did not ask him for permission and did not indicate authorship.

Cascadeur character animation software has reached an audience of 130 thousand people and is being released in Product Hunt today. We thought this was a great opportunity to talk to its founder about the challenges that the tool is currently facing, and, most importantly, about its integration with neural networks.

Israeli Playtika has attracted the attention of several private investment firms, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. They are considering buying the company.

What is LiveOps, why it is important and what you should pay attention to when working with it, — experts of the Balancy service Julia Iljuk and Andrey Apanasik told.

Microsoft Corporation will open a hub in Kazakhstan that will work with several regions at once: with Kazakhstan itself and other Central Asian countries, as well as with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia and Pakistan.

After February 2022, Steam and other major foreign stores stopped accepting payments from Russia. XYZ School looked at how it affected Russian gamers.

There will soon be one more game in the Lesta Games portfolio. By April 14, Fulqrum Publishing* will transfer the rights to the MMORPG Royal Quest to the company.

Owners of Xbox consoles from Russia can no longer apply for warranty repairs directly to Microsoft. The Izvestia newspaper, with reference to the technical support of the corporation, reported that Microsoft had stopped warranty service in the country “due to the current situation.”