The Keywords Studios group of companies is getting bigger. This time she decided to purchase the Canadian Smoking Gun Interactive. The maximum transaction amount may be $29.7 million.

The developers from Theorycraft Games will spend this money on the development of their first project — a competitive team game codenamed Loki.

Hilmar Pétursson stated this in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz . In his opinion, the history of the creation of MMO, metaverses and other large-scale game worlds can be traced back to the medieval Icelandic sagas. For example, before the “Younger Edda”, which reads like a script for video games.

Wooga released the Hidden June’s Journey storyline in 2017. According to the company with reference to the data data.ai , now it is the highest-grossing mobile game in the genre.

videogamedunkey stated that he has been making videos about video games for more than 11 years and has played a lot of titles during this time. He considers the launch of an indie publishing house to be a “harmonious continuation” of the YouTube channel.

The transaction amount and other financial details were not disclosed. The management of the New Zealand Digital Confectioners announced that the studio will maintain creative independence and at the same time receive more information about the Chinese market.

According to the company, Anemone Hug Interactive became the first full-service development studio in Canada to organize a trade union.

The figure includes both old and new players.

On September 21, 2022, the order on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation came into force. Specialists of the Semenov&Pevzner law firm Irina Gushchina and Ekaterina Gubaeva have prepared an information certificate on the decree. It also reveals who can be called up and whether employees of IT companies have a reprieve from the army?

The new rules will work from June 1, 2023.

The first place again went to GTA V, writes GamesIndustry.biz with a link to GSD data.

The funding round was led by Resolute Ventures with the participation of Polygon, IGNIA, 2 Punks Capital, ID345 and David Jones, co-founder of Rockstar North.

Unity has released a large report on multiplayer games. As part of the study, she interviewed 1,500 people from the United States, Great Britain, Japan and South Korea.

The Indian gaming market is the second in the world in terms of the number of gamers. In a recent report, Newzoo and MAAS analysts said that by the end of the year there will be 373 million gamers in the country, 91% of whom play on smartphones.

The full title of the position of Andrew Reiner is the global executive creative Director of Gearbox Software.

The increased regulation of technology and gaming companies in China has seriously affected the market value of Tencent. It was also affected by the fact that in June one of the largest shareholders of the holding, Prosus, announced that he planned to reduce his share.

2K warned gamers that unknown attackers had gained access to the publisher’s tech support platform and started sending emails with phishing links.

Blizzard representatives told the PC Gamer portal that Geoff Goodman decided to quit at the beginning of the year. The reason for the designer’s departure is not explained.

According to the calculations of MTS-Bank, for the period from March to August 2022, the traffic of streaming platforms in Russia increased by an average of 30%. The company did not share figures for all major platforms, but noted that the traffic of its MTS WASD service jumped by 120% at once (and the average viewing time of streams — by 11% to 68 minutes).