The action Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has an extremely unsuccessful start on Steam. In the first hours after the release, the game collected 1.3 thousand negative reviews.

In December 2022, seven members of the US Congress sent a letter to Valve, Epic Games, EA and 11 other major gaming companies. Politicians demanded to explain how they fight extremism and other harassment in games. The answers received did not please at least one congressman.

Yesterday, Reuters, citing sources, reported that the European Commission may become the first major regulator to approve the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. After the release of this news, the shares of the companies rose in price.

Sources tell Reuters that the European Commission is unlikely to offer Microsoft to buy only part of Activision Blizzard — the regulator can allegedly support the deal without this requirement. In early February, such a condition for the transaction was put forward by the British regulator.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a product analyst at Dankolab, a game producer at Craft Games and a VFX artist at ExoGenesis.

A court session was held in Tokyo, where the case of Yuji Naka, a game designer accused of insider trading in shares of Final Fantasy VII developers, was examined: The First Soldier. The former head of Sonic Team pleaded guilty.

According to The Verge, this figure was named by the vice president of the VR direction Meta* Mark Rabkin during a presentation for employees.

On March 1, Godot developers announced the full release of the fourth version of their open source engine. Work on it went on for four years.

An American court ordered Sony to share information with Microsoft about the work of the gaming division — Microsoft needs this data for proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The Financial Times newspaper published a list of thousands of European companies whose revenue grew the most in the period from 2018 to 2021. The rating was headed by the developer of mobile games Tripledot Studios.

At the end of March, Hustle Castle will be six years old. In honor of the upcoming anniversary, MY.GAMES announced that the number of downloads of the project exceeded 80 million.

For the second time, the European antimonopoly regulator has moved the date by which it should issue a verdict on the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. Now it’s April 25th.

Kaspersky Lab has released a report on cyber attacks against children using video games. The company said that over the past year it recorded more than 7 million such cyber attacks — 57% more than in 2021.

Administrators of the official Atomic Heart community in VK asked subscribers where they purchased the shooter. Almost a third of the survey participants replied that they bought it in VK Play.

The Atomic Heart soundtrack is very popular on the Yandex Music platform. The phonk remix of Igor Sklyar’s song “Komarovo” in the processing of the musician DVRST hit the first place of the chart.

The difficult times for gaming companies continue. And they affect even very young studios. Today it became known about the cuts in the Dragon Machines team. She lost a little more than a quarter of the staff.

The hype around AI has attracted the attention of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency published an appeal to tech companies, in which it stressed that AI is an ambiguous term, and it should not be abused.

The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division gave an interview to the Xbox On channel. During the conversation, Phil Spencer touched upon, among other things, the topic of artificial intelligence and video games.

The developers of the SnowRunner off-road driving simulator have announced a new achievement of the project. Its audience has reached 10 million users. This figure includes both Game Pass subscribers and those who purchased the game from other services.