News May 12, 2022

Last year was the most profitable in Konami’s history

Konami has revealed the results of the fiscal year 2022. It became a record for her — each category of profit (operating, pre-tax and others) was able to reach the highest level for the entire existence of the Japanese publisher.

News May 12, 2022

Mass media: in China, they began to refuse registration of trademarks with the word “metaverse”

The Chinese authorities are strengthening control over metaverse projects. The SCMP business portal reports that recently “several” companies have failed to register trademarks containing the phrase “yuan yuzhou” (translated as “metaverse”).

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Codemasters Cheshire has joined Criterion Games — the studios will work together on the new Need For Speed

Electronic Arts has decided to strengthen the Need For Speed development team. Now the Codemasters division from Cheshire has officially joined Criterion Games.

News May 12, 2022

Google now allows developers to create more special pages for apps on Google Play

On May 11, Google held a conference for developers I/O 2022, at which it presented, among other things, new features for its mobile store.

News May 12, 2022

The revenue of the mobile gaming market continues to decline. In the first quarter, it fell by 6%

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at how things were with mobile games in the first quarter of 2022. She found out that gamers began to gradually reduce costs — the numbers are declining for the second quarter in a row.

News May 12, 2022

Sales of Rune Factory 5 exceeded 500 thousand copies

This was announced by the publisher of Marvelous. It took into account worldwide sales of both physical editions of the game and digital copies. How the circulation was distributed is not specified. But it is known that by last June, 127.9 thousand cartridges with Rune Factory 5 for the Nintendo Switch were sold in Japan.

News May 12, 2022

CB Insights: in the first quarter, blockchain companies attracted investments of a record $9.2 billion

The volume of blockchain transactions is growing rapidly. CB Insights analysts estimate that in the first three months of 2022, companies working with this technology received 461 investments totaling $9.2 billion – a new record.

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The creator of the World Wide Web said that he believes in the potential of the metaverse

Tim Berners-Lee shared his opinion in an interview with Bloomberg. He clarified that the metaverse and virtual reality in general are unlikely to replace the Internet in its modern form, but they will become part of its future.

News May 12, 2022

Starbreeze’s quarterly pre-tax losses increased by 459% to $2.36 million

Swedish Starbreeze reported for the first quarter of 2022. It didn’t go well. All key financial indicators have fallen compared to last year.

News May 11, 2022

Metaverse market revenue to reach $224 billion by 2030

ResearchAndMarkets.com I have prepared a new report. This time, analysts shared their forecast for the metaverse technology market.

News May 11, 2022

The producer of Final Fantasy XIV stated that he does not consider the metaverse to be “entertainment”

Naoki Yoshida told about this in an interview with Weekly Bunshun. He admitted that he was not very interested in the idea of a metaverse. Although some players compare the metaverse with his MMORPG, the developer does not see much in common between them.

News May 11, 2022

British mobile publisher Kwalee opens an office in Portugal

Kwalee continues to expand. The company has announced the launch of a fourth office outside the UK. It will be located in Almada, Portugal. Previously, Kwalee opened branches in India and China.

News May 11, 2022

Sales of This War of Mine exceeded 7 million copies

The achievement became known from the official Twitter account of the game. It is not specified whether this figure includes copies that users took away during the free distribution in the Epic Games Store.

News May 11, 2022

Appodeal told how the eCPM of rewarded advertising, fullscreen advertising and banners in Russia and Ukraine has changed

What happened in Ukraine seriously affected the eCPM indicator (effective price per thousand impressions) in mobile applications in Russia and Ukraine. This is stated in a study published by Appodeal at the end of last week.

News May 11, 2022

Omdia: in a year and a half, the number of people familiar with cloud games has grown dramatically, but they have not started buying subscriptions en masse

Omdia interviewed over 3,700 gamers from the USA, UK and Germany about their attitude to cloud gaming services. Analysts found out that 56% of respondents are unfamiliar with cloud games. However, a year and a half ago there were 86% of such respondents.

News May 11, 2022

Sony CFO: the quality of the company’s AAA games will deteriorate if they appear as part of PS Plus immediately after release

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.

News May 11, 2022

Gamechuck Studio founded the first gaming trade union in Croatia

Officially, the Workers of Gamechuck D.O.O union started working in Gamechuck back on April 29, but the media only paid attention to it now.

News May 11, 2022

InvestGame: in the first quarter, the volume of transactions in the gaming industry amounted to a record $100.3 billion

InvestGame analysts have published a study on investments, public offerings and M&A transactions in the gaming market for the first three months of 2022. They found out that already now the volume of transactions was able to surpass the results for the whole of 2021.

News May 11, 2022

Record annual revenue and 6.1 million copies of Resident Evil Village — the main thing from the Capcom report

Capcom has managed to set sales revenue records for the fifth year in a row. In a recent report for the fiscal year, she reported that she earned $848.7 million on sales. This is 15% more than the total a year earlier.

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Chinese gamers fear for the safety of data in Tencent mobile games. The holding assures that everything is in order

According to SCMP, concerns arose at the end of April. Then the users of the racing game QQ Speed noticed that some of their data disappeared after the update was released. At the same time, it became known that the support of this and several other titles is now being handled not by Tencent itself, but by its newly created “daughter” Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Limited.

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Last year was the most profitable in Konami’s history

Mass media: in China, they began to refuse registration of trademarks with the word “metaverse”

Codemasters Cheshire has joined Criterion Games — the studios will work together on the new Need For Speed

Google now allows developers to create more special pages for apps on Google Play

The revenue of the mobile gaming market continues to decline. In the first quarter, it fell by 6%

Sales of Rune Factory 5 exceeded 500 thousand copies

CB Insights: in the first quarter, blockchain companies attracted investments of a record $9.2 billion

The creator of the World Wide Web said that he believes in the potential of the metaverse

Starbreeze’s quarterly pre-tax losses increased by 459% to $2.36 million

Metaverse market revenue to reach $224 billion by 2030

The producer of Final Fantasy XIV stated that he does not consider the metaverse to be “entertainment”

British mobile publisher Kwalee opens an office in Portugal

Sales of This War of Mine exceeded 7 million copies

Appodeal told how the eCPM of rewarded advertising, fullscreen advertising and banners in Russia and Ukraine has changed

Omdia: in a year and a half, the number of people familiar with cloud games has grown dramatically, but they have not started buying subscriptions en masse

Sony CFO: the quality of the company’s AAA games will deteriorate if they appear as part of PS Plus immediately after release

Gamechuck Studio founded the first gaming trade union in Croatia

InvestGame: in the first quarter, the volume of transactions in the gaming industry amounted to a record $100.3 billion

Record annual revenue and 6.1 million copies of Resident Evil Village — the main thing from the Capcom report

Chinese gamers fear for the safety of data in Tencent mobile games. The holding assures that everything is in order