Electronic Arts (EA) has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022). We have selected the main figures from it.

Tenjin and GameAnalytics have prepared a report on the situation on the advertising market in hyper casual games for the fourth quarter of 2022.

The Polish company Techland revealed this figure in a press release for PAP Biznes.

On January 27, a strike took place in the Ubisoft studio in Paris. It involved 40 employees or about 15% of the staff.

In December last year, the British publisher Kwalee boasted that his mobile portfolio came close to the billion downloads mark — then he had 969 million downloads on his account. A month later, the company announced that it had finally managed to overcome a landmark milestone.

It seems that the French publisher Voodoo no longer believes in the potential of hyper-casual games. Alexander Shea, who heads the publishing direction of the company, said during the PGC London 2023 conference that this genre is dead.

PS VR2 pre-orders did not meet Sony‘s expectations. According to Bloomberg, because of this, the company has revised its plans for the production of the headset, and now it is going to produce only one million devices in the first quarter. Initially, there should have been 2 million of them .

In 2023, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are going to skip E3, IGN reports, citing sources. If the portal’s information is confirmed, it will be the first time that all three companies do not participate in the exhibition.

On Friday, January 27, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Russian gaming industry. According to Kommersant, during it, officials discussed the problems faced by developers due to sanctions. In particular, they touched on the topic of audiostocks.

Epic Games plans to close the Rumbleverse game six months after the release. According to insider Tom Henderson, the Battle royale will begin to be removed from the stores today, and it will finally stop working at the end of February.

The KGB of Belarus has added Nikolay Katselapov, Director of Business Development at Wargaming, to the list of persons involved in terrorism. The corresponding entry appeared on the agency’s website on January 3, however, the media paid attention to it only now.

Capcom has published a report for three financial quarters (April-December 2022). Almost all key indicators of the Japanese company have fallen.

Bandai Namco sued a former employee. According to the company, from April 2015 to April 2022, he stole about 4.4 thousand smartphones intended for testing mobile games.

The exact size of the investment is not disclosed. According to the estimates of the GamesIndustry portal.biz, we are talking about many millions of dollars.

The premiere of the series on The Last of Us led to a sharp increase in the daily audience of games, based on which the show was filmed. As noted in Newzoo, the DAU of the first part of the franchise* has grown especially strongly — by 300% at once.

On January 25, Jim Ryan met with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition. This is reported by Reuters with reference to sources.

Oleg Tuzov, project manager of Belka Games, spoke about the experience of launching an R&D department, building processes in it, and also gave several recommendations to those who are interested in launching a similar department in the company.

At the end of December, the South Korean Pearl Abyss held a charity event in Black Desert Online and Black Desert Mobile. As part of it, users could buy special game items, the proceeds from the sales of which the company pledged to transfer to the non-profit organization Doctors Without Borders.