Studio Owlcat Games has announced that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has been bought a million times since the release of the game in September 2021. How sales were distributed across platforms is not specified.

Scenario startup, which developed a neural network of the same name for generating game assets, successfully conducted a seed round of financing. He received $6 million from venture capital companies Play Ventures, Anorak Ventures, Founders, co-founders of Oculus, Twitch and a number of other investors.

We summed up the results of last year together with Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO and co-founder of AppFollow. He spoke about the difficulties faced by the company, as well as about the key changes in the ASO market.

The French publisher Focus Entertainment shared the results of the third financial quarter, which ended on December 31, 2022. During this period, he earned €76.1 million — €39 million more than a year earlier.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference have published an annual large-scale study on the state of the gaming industry. As part of it, over 2,300 developers were interviewed.

The creators of League of Legends, in a comment for journalist Jacob Wolf, reported that they had indeed fired a number of employees. In total, 46 people were cut — this is less than 1% of the Riot Games staff.

Reuters has learned that the Israeli holding company Playtika has made a proposal to consolidate with the Finnish developer and publisher of games Rovio, best known for the Angry Birds franchise.

We continue to summarize the results of last year together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Natalia Yurkova, Managing Partner of i-Legal.Tell me, what was the year for you personally?

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: the head of the ASO direction at Dankolab, a financial manager at Fun to Mass Games and a game logic programmer at Lesta Games.

This figure was called by the portal MobileGamer.biz , who studied the data of the AppMagic service.

Microsoft continues to defend the purchase of Activision Blizzard. As noted by Stephen Totilo from Axios, she recently asked the court to postpone consideration of a lawsuit from 10 American gamers until the proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are completed.

Drake Star estimates that in 2022, the volume of announced and/or closed M&A agreements, investments and public offerings in the gaming industry amounted to $127 billion. This is 78.8% more than a year earlier.

Journalist Jacob Wolf reported that Riot Games has also started firing employees. According to him, the cuts take place in the HR, support and esports departments.

Last week, Yves Guillemot made an unfortunate statement. In a letter to employees, he indicated that the fate of Ubisoft is in the hands of developers, and urged developers to give their all. Now the head of the publishing house has apologized for incorrectly chosen words.

On January 18, Microsoft confirmed that it would lay off 10,000 people. As it became known to the media, among others, developers from Bethesda, 343 Industries and The Coalition were reduced.

We continue the series of interviews in which we summarize the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. This time we talked with Vasily Ovchinnikov, the head of the “Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry” (RVI).

On January 17, the American Xsolla Holding Company became the almost complete owner of the three Perm “daughters” of Xsolla. As RB writes.RU with reference to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, she now owns shares in the amount of 99.99% in LLC “Ixolla”, LLC “System Projects” and LLC “Ixolla Games”.

We continue to summarize the results of last year together with the top managers of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Oleg Beresnev, founder and CEO of Beresnev Games.

The European Federation of Game Developers (EGDF) has published an appeal in which it expressed support for the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. She said that the deal will bring more benefits to the gaming industry than harm.