During the New Year holidays, Steam once again broke the record for the number of simultaneous users of the platform. According to SteamDB, on Saturday, January 7, the peak online platform exceeded a record 32 million people, and the next day it reached 33 million people.

CD PROJEKT settled the conflict with investors due to the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077, Microsoft stopped calling the FTC lawsuit due to the purchase of Activision Blizzard unconstitutional, NetEase acquired the studio involved in the development of Halo Infinite and Minecraft – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

We summed up the results of the year together with Pavel Tokarev, the founder of Inlingo. He talked about moving to Dubai, a new methodology for localization of projects, the work of the art department and much more.

After the New Year, we continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with the top managers of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Albert Zhiltsov, director of 1C Game Studios.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Boris Sinitsky, the publishing director of the World of Tanks at Lesta Games.

Summed up the results of the year together with Ivan Koziev, COO of Crazy Panda studio. He talked about how he managed to keep most of the team, shared a new challenge that faced the company, and noted a drop in coverage among mislid creatives.

We talked about the results of the year in gaming education with Ekaterina Cherkeszade, Rector of the University of Creative Industries Universal University and Dean of the Faculty of Game Development Scream School. She spoke about the demand for education in the niche and who comes here first.

We continue to summarize the results of last year. This time we are publishing an interview with Pavel Ignatov, CEO at Balance, a company specializing in gaming LiveOps.

We continue to summarize the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Kravtsov, CEO and founder of devtodev.

We continue to summarize the results of 2022 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Denis Khamin, co-owner of the Allcorrect 2D and 3D art localization and outsourcing studio.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with the heads of gaming companies and market experts. Next up is an interview with Alexandra Kurdyumova and Bogdan Mikhailov, Senior partner and Head of Digital at Versus.legal, respectively.

Already in the new year, 2023, we continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Vasily Maguryan, CEO of VK Play

We continue the series of interviews in which we summarize the results of the year together with experts and top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones). This time we talked with Ilya Grabelnikov, Chief Distribution Officer of META Publishing.

The last publication this year.

Recruiting agency Talents In Games summed up the results of the open voting for the award “Game Dev HR Awards 2022“. The game studios Playkot and MYTONA turned out to be the winners by a large margin in terms of votes cast.

Cryptozima will not be a big problem for the blockchain games market, according to the authors of a recent study on ResearchAndMarkets. They predict that the market turnover will grow from $4.6 billion in 2022 to $65.7 billion in 2027.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top continues to publish materials from the “Results” series, in which it polls top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones) about how the year has passed for their company and the market. Next up is a response from Pavel Ryakkonen, founder and CEO of WN Media Group.

The other day, a discussion broke out on Twitter about not the best quality of modern AAA games. Some of the participants were not against making an exception for the Elden Ring, calling its design “passable”, but not Jonathan Blow. According to the creator of The Witness, there is no design as such in this game.

The Steam team has compiled lists with the most successful games for 2022. Elden Ring, Stray and V Rising were noted among the box office novelties.