As a result of last week, Valve‘s portable console again became the best—selling on Steam – for the third week in a row. However, the rest of the bestseller chart has changed a lot. This time, five new products got into it at once, including Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) has revealed how much it is going to invest in video games in 2022, Nintendo has sued the operator of the Russian “Nintendo World”, and the creators of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reported strong sales, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

What specific rules the game account violated is not reported. It is also unknown how long the lockdown will last.

A year and a half ago, Motorsport Games, which develops racing games under a NASCAR license, successfully entered the stock exchange — it raised $69 million through an IPO with an estimate of $ 510 million. However, now the company faces delisting.

The Australian company Immutable, specializing in Web3, has decided to open another blockchain fund. She announced that within four years she is going to invest $500 million in developers of games for her Immutable X platform.

Android games have a hard time keeping an audience. Pushwoosh has calculated that on average their first-day retention rate is 43%. After a week, it drops to 32.2%, and after a month — to 24.6%.

In a month of early access, the vampire survival V Rising was able to sell 2 million copies. Developers from Stunlock Studios, in an interview with the Eurogamer portal, called this figure “amazing” and said they were proud of the launch of the game.

An unusual initiative from Azur Games. A developer and publisher of mobile games has announced a competition to create a concept for a new game mode for the Axes metaverse. The winning team will receive a grant for its implementation in the amount of $ 100 thousand, as well as 15% of all its future profits.

The ByteDance gaming direction has problems. Bloomberg sources report that TikTok‘s parent company has decided to close one of its studios — 101 Studio. Over a hundred developers are out of work.

The Epic Online Services toolkit has acquired a new feature. The Epic Games team has announced that developers can now add crossplay to PC games. So far, this can only be done for the Epic Games Store and Steam, but later the function will work in other stores.

The Telegram channel GameDev Reports drew attention to the performance of the game. With reference to the data of the AppMagic service, he said that for the two debut weeks, the revenue of the mobile version of Diablo Immortal alone amounted to $ 24.3 million, and downloads — 8.5 million.

Last year, Netflix started adding mobile games to its platform. According to Sensor Tower analysts, at the moment their total downloads have exceeded 13 million.

More than half of the employees of game studios believe that they are underpaid. This is stated in the study of the Federation of trade Unions UNI Global Union, which interviewed specialists from 29 countries.

According to a recent report by Electronic Arts (EA), for the 12 months ending in March 2022, Andrew Wilson received $19.9 million. This is significantly less than a year ago, when his bonus was $39.2 million.

The developer and publisher of Raid: Shadow Legends will stop working in Russia. Information has appeared on the network that Plarium is closing a division located in Krasnodar.

The news that Microsoft has agreed to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion has concerned public figures and human rights activists. They noted that the deal could exacerbate the problem of discrimination and harassment in the publishing house. Now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has assured that it is investigating the takeover from this side.

Mobile publisher Tamatem Games from Jordan has announced a strategic partnership with venture capital company MSA Novo. As part of the cooperation, he plans to bring his games to the Chinese market.

McKinsey & Co., a consulting company, believes that the concept of the metaverse has great potential. She predicts that in eight years the metaverse market will be valued at $5 trillion. However, only 2.5% of this amount will be spent on games.

Activision Blizzard has promised to report regularly to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on how the internal investigation concerning harassment in the company is progressing. In a recent report, the board of directors pointed out that neither he nor independent consultants found evidence that the publisher deliberately hushed up the problem.