The Russian age-marking system for video games was proposed at the start to be distributed only to digital publications, Hogwarts Legacy sold over 12 million copies in the first two weeks, the developers of the calendar application TheDayBefore confirmed that they are trying to defend the rights to the trademark of the same name — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The use of Midjourney allowed the Lost Lore game studio to significantly optimize the costs of creating art. How exactly, — Evgeny Kitkin, the founder and CEO of the studio, told in his column.

Blumhouse Productions decided to develop video games. To do this, she launched the Blumhouse Games division.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group has become the owner of another game development studio. Through his subsidiary Headup, he acquired the German Studio Fizbin.

Representatives of the Odnoklassniki social network told about this in a report on the game results of 2022.

The Game Insight scandal has a new twist. On February 21, the Russian Game Insight appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court and demanded that the Lithuanian company pay her 154.3 million rubles.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game engine developer at MYTONA, a leading UA manager at Dankolab and a game designer at ZiMAD.

Such figures were shared by Microsoft President Brad Smith at a hearing in Brussels.

At a hearing organized by the European Commission, Microsoft made it clear that it still expects to buy Activision Blizzard entirely – with all divisions and games.

Microsoft has announced a 10-year partnership with NVIDIA. According to its terms, the corporation’s PC games will be available in the GeForce Now cloud service. If Microsoft manages to buy Activision Blizzard, then the publisher’s games will appear in the service.

The number of copies of Elden Ring sold continues to grow. Bandai Namco announced that to date, the game has been bought over 20 million times — both in “digital” and in the form of discs.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine is going to send a letter with such a request to Sony, Microsoft and Valve. About this in the comments to the dev portal.ua was informed by the deputy head of the department Alexander Bornyakov.

Players who bought Atomic Heart in VK Play are dissatisfied with the work of the platform. They complain massively on social networks about constant errors and low download speed.

Finnish Rovio announced that it will soon remove the first Angry Birds from access again. On February 23, it will remove the game from Google Play. The game will remain in the App Store for now, but will be renamed Red’s First Flight.

On February 20, the vx-underground organization and insider Tom Henderson reported that Activision was attacked by hackers at the end of last year. Today, Activision in a statement to the media admitted that there was an attempt to hack, but it was not successful.

Microsoft President Brad Smith spoke to reporters on the eve of a closed hearing in the EU about the deal with Activision Blizzard. He said that the corporation would insist on approving the purchase and discuss solutions that would suit regulators and competitors.

FreePlay, specializing in hyper-casual games, announced that its portfolio has crossed a new milestone. To date, the company’s games have been downloaded over a billion times.

On the night of February 20-21, Mundfish Studio released Atomic Heart. According to the SteamDB service, nine hours after the release, the number of simultaneous players in the Steam version of the shooter reached 23,720 people.

Microsoft has signed a contract with Nintendo, according to which Xbox games will be released on the consoles of the Japanese company for 10 years. She also promised to release Call of Duty series games on Nintendo consoles — if the deal with Activision Blizzard is closed.