Analysts from Niko Partners predict rapid growth in the gaming market of the MENA-3 region (Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt). It is estimated that in five years its revenue will increase by 56% at once.

Velan Studios has announced the imminent closure of the multiplayer action game Knockout City. On February 28, the ability to make in-game purchases will be removed from it, and on June 6, public servers will stop working.

Ubisoft may be preparing to close the Polish branch after 15 years of operation in the country. This is reported by Marcin Kosman, CEO of the better gaming agency. gaming agency.

Korean publisher NCSOFT has decided to conduct a global business reorganization. As part of it, the company will cut a fifth of the employees of the division that operates Lineage, Blade & Soul and its other games in Western countries.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a 2D/3D animator at Lesta Games and a VFX artist at ExoGenesis.

The Chinese antimonopoly regulator asked the opinion of local developers about the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation. He did not publicly publish the answers, but, according to media reports, the companies interviewed did not object to the deal.

Chris Wanstrath, one of the authors of GitHub, announced the launch of his own game publishing house. Null Games will work with independent developers, helping them with financing, marketing, porting and other things.

The developers of Dwarf Fortress have published a fresh report on the state of the game. They said that in January Dwarf Fortress brought them $7.23 million — 462 times more than in December and 44 times more than in the whole of 2022.

On January 31, James Gunn and Peter Safran spoke in more detail about their plans to create a shared DC universe. In particular, they stated that they want to use the same actors in films, TV series, comics and games. Jake Solomon, creative director of XCOM and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, has already spoken out against this approach.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) failed to block a deal between Meta* and Within Unlimited. The District Court of California allowed the company to buy the developers of the Supernatural VR game, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

Sony has published another financial report today. In it, the company disclosed the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2022.

Ambitions to create a metaverse are expensive for Meta*. In the latest financial report, the company reported that the losses of the Reality Labs division for 2022 amounted to $13.717 billion, which is 34.5% more than a year ago.

On January 31, the original Final Fantasy VII turned 26 years old. In honor of the anniversary of the game, producer Yoshinori Kitase announced that sales of the project have reached 14.1 million copies.

The story of layoffs in gaming companies continues. Next up is the American publisher of Tilting Point. He announced a restructuring in which he will part with about 60 employees.

The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a 50-page report on competition in the mobile store market. In it, the agency called Apple and Google “gatekeepers” whose policies harm both users and developers.

NVIDIA may become one of the witnesses in the trial between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft. This is reported by journalist Stephen Totilo, who studied court documents.

Capcom has updated the “platinum list” with games. It includes projects whose sales exceed a million copies.

Journalist Jason Schreier from Bloomberg found out how the situation at 343 Industries changed after Microsoft announced large-scale layoffs.

Yesterday, Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Sony is going to produce only one million copies of PS VR 2 in the first quarter of 2023 instead of the previously planned two million. However, Sony later issued a denial.