In October, devtodev launched a new platform with courses for developers — Edvice. Three months later, the company announced that its entire educational direction had finally moved to this platform.

Chinese zombie puzzle Puzzles & Survival is rapidly increasing revenue. Naavik data-based analytics company data.ai she estimated that in September 2022, the game earned about $ 29.9 million, and its total revenue reached $ 595 million.

Last week, physical sales of God of War: Ragnarök in the country jumped by 32%. We should thank the increased supply of PS5 consoles for such growth, GamesIndustry reports.biz with a link to the GfK data.

The new record was announced by Katsuhiro Harada, chief producer of Tekken. He also said that the total circulation of the series has reached the mark of 54 million copies.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 49th week of the year.

The European Commission disagreed with the arguments of the FTC in an antitrust lawsuit against the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, Canadian parents sued Epic Games because of Fortnite, one of the creators of Disco Elysium said he would continue to fight injustice in the studio, despite the return of €4.8 million, – we tell you what happened in the game industry for this weekend.

Another trial between gaming companies is planned. Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese giant NetEase in four countries at once: the UK, Germany, Brazil and Singapore.

Obsidian Entertainment boasted of such figures on the Xbox Wire portal. The last time the studio reported on the success of the game was just a month ago — then the number of gamers who played Grounded was 13 million people.

The head of Epic Games gave a great interview to The Verge. As part of it, Tim Sweeney said that he was going to go into conflict with Apple to the end and, if necessary, was ready to appeal to the US Supreme Court.

The Ozon trading platform spoke about the increased demand for games of The Witcher series in the comments of Igromania. She did not specify how many copies were sold in 2022, but noted that Ozon customers bought both digital versions and discs.

Gaming expert Simon Carless noticed that last week Tumblr summed up the results of 2022. Among other things, the service named the most popular games among its users.

The Activision Blizzard discrimination scandal has a new twist. The publisher filed a counterclaim against the California Department of Civil Rights (CRD, formerly known as DFEH). In his opinion, the officials violated the law when they informed the court about the problems in the company in July 2021.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially opposed the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. The department is confident that the deal will allow Microsoft to harm competition in the gaming market.

In the early morning of December 9, a large-scale ceremony of The Game Awards 2022 was held. The title of the game of the year went to Elden Ring, but God of War: Ragnarök took the most awards — six statuettes.

The studio received the entire amount in three parts last month, according to the Estonian Express newspaper.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a CG Generalist at AIRICORE and a senior 2D concept environment artist at ExoGenesis.

Kaur Kender, executive producer of Disco Elysium, will not sue Tütreke in Estonia, which allegedly bought out a stake in ZA/UM with the studio’s own money. The developer’s decision was announced by representatives of ZA/UM in the comments GamesIndustry.biz .

The authors of the rhythm shooter Metal: Hellsinger announced that their game has attracted a million people in almost three months since its release. This number includes both those who bought a copy of the title and Game Pass subscribers.

The Swedish Embracer Group holding has become cramped on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market, an exchange on which mainly small and medium—sized companies are traded. He announced that he would switch to Nasdaq Stockholm on December 22.