Google has applied for a patent for a technology that allows you to test games using artificial intelligence. The corporation expects that it will significantly accelerate work on games.

The PS VR2 headset showed a weak sales start. Bloomberg, citing IDC data, reports that in the period from February 22 to the end of March, Sony sold 270 thousand devices.

Electronic Arts (EA) is preparing for restructuring. As part of it, the company plans to lay off 6% of employees — that’s about 775 people.

The first edition of the continuation of the book “Kojima Genius” (in the original The Kojima Code) has been shipped to Russian retail, ” Bombora publishing house reports. It’s called “Genius Strikes Back” (in the original A Stealth Game). The author is the same — Canadian blogger Terry Wolfe, who became interested in amateur theology after video games. As for the book, it is devoted to a speculative theory about possible competition between Hideo Kojima…

Rob Cooper decided to leave Ubisoft. He managed the company’s business in Northern Europe and the Middle East, as well as helped it enter new markets.

On March 29, a number of Russian media with reference to Gadzhi Maktiyev, the founder of Kanobu, reported that Mundfish studio received $7 million for the release of Atomic Heart on VK Play exclusively for users from Russia and the CIS. In addition, the shooter allegedly has already earned $ 10 million on the site.

Polish mobile developer Ten Square Games, known for Fishing Clash and Hunting Clash simulators, is preparing to make cuts. The company stated that it was forced to take this step due to high inflation in Poland and the difficult situation in the gaming industry.

The Future of Life Institute has published an open letter calling for suspending work on neural networks that are smarter than GPT-4 for at least six months. Experts believe that such technologies can pose a serious danger to humanity.

In the summer of 2018, MY.GAMES released the zombie shooter Left to Survive. According to the company, since then the game’s revenue has exceeded $ 120 million.

The administration of the Texas city of Fort Worth wants to increase the number of jobs available to residents. She turned to ProbablyMonsters, which was founded in 2016 by the former head of Bungie, Harold Ryan, and asked to open a division in Fort Worth.

The head of Activision Blizzard in a letter to employees admitted that he was disappointed with Sony. He doesn’t like the way the company behaves when discussing a deal with Microsoft.

Capcom announced that the remake of Resident Evil 4 took only two days to sell over 3 million copies.

In his traditional newsletter, Simon Carless, for a moment, the former editor-in-chief of Gamasutra, as well as the former vice president of GDC, who runs the GameDiscoverCo agency today, spoke about the main trends in the PC and console games industry. We have a careful translation of his assessment into Russian.

Gamers are still spending more on mobile games than they did before the pandemic. As the analysts found out data.ai in the first quarter of 2023, users worldwide left an average of $1.63 billion a week in mobile games – 28% more than at the beginning of 2020.

Team17 investors were not happy that Debbie Bestwick is preparing to step down as CEO. After the announcement of the management reshuffle, the company’s share price fell by 10% to 400 pence apiece.

On March 12, the Sensor Tower analytical company published a large-scale study on the situation in mobile gaming by the end of 2022. We have already written about him briefly. Time for detailed material with key calculations from the study.

Last year, the French spent €5.5 billion on video games, consoles and gaming PCs, according to the SELL association. They spent more only in 2020 and 2021.

Debbie Bestwick intends to leave the post of CEO of Team17. She will do it right after she finds a successor.

The Fair Trade Commission of Japan announced that it does not object to the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $68.7 billion.