Chinese giant Tencent has set a new anti-record. The company reported that it earned $79.6 billion last year — 1% less compared to 2021. This is the first drop in Tencent’s annual revenue since at least 2004, when the company went public.

Supercell is preparing to permanently close access to Clash Royale, Braw Stars and its other games for Russian and Belarusian users. The company has announced that it will do this by the end of May.

We tell you about the program and details of the future event.

Microsoft has celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ID@Xbox program. In honor of this, she shared a number of numbers.

The Russian authorities want to stimulate the development of Russian simulators for controlling drones and other similar equipment. The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation believes that game studios can create such software.

At the end of last year, 10 gamers from the United States decided to prevent Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard and sued the corporation. Their attempt was unsuccessful. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that there was not enough evidence in it.

In February, the official comic book for the Shadow Fight franchise appeared on the bookshelves of the CIS. We talked with Nikita Korzhavin, Nekki‘s business development director, about how the comic was being worked on and what task it solves for the game franchise.

The Russian government may help domestic developers with publishing games in China. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed gaming companies that are part of the Competence Center for the Development of System-wide and Applied Software for Gaming Services (hereinafter CCR) to prepare proposals for the necessary measures of state support for the export of games.

The La Forge research unit from Ubisoft Montreal showed the Ghostwriter neural network. Her main task is to help screenwriters with writing phrases that are pronounced by NPCs.

On March 6, the Appodeal growth platform published an interactive report on the dynamics of eCPM over the past year. We tell you what you can learn from it.

In three weeks since the release, the cumulative audience of the retrofuturistic shooter Atomic Heart has surpassed the mark of 5 million players.

Adobe is preparing to launch its own family of neural networks capable of generating images. According to the company, it uses only licensed art and copyrighted content for AI training.

The Canadian court will not consider charges against Electronic Arts (EA) concerning violations of the gambling law. He did not agree that the company uses gambling practices by adding loot boxes to games.

Roblox announced that on March 20, beta versions of two AI tools that simplify game development became available to users of its platform.

The sanctions have seriously affected the Russian gaming market. According to the results of last year, its volume decreased by 80%, the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) estimated.

The founders of the Mundfish studio expect that in the future their team will be able to make games in 24-hour mode. Robert Bagratuni and Evgenia Sedova shared such plans in an interview with Durov’s Code.

Subway Surfers runner has crossed another billion-dollar milestone. The Danish company SYBO reported that in the 11 years since its release, its game has been downloaded over 4 billion times.

CD PROJEKT Group of Companies announced the cancellation of expenses incurred while working on Project Sirius, a multiplayer game in the Witcher universe. They amounted to 42.9 million zlotys or $9.76 million.

The National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) has issued licenses for the release of 27 foreign games in the country. The list of approved games included, among others, Merge Mansion from Metacore and Spring Valley from Playkot.