Analytical company data.ai She shared her forecast about the situation with mobile games in the second quarter of 2022. According to her calculations, gamers will spend $21.5 billion in April-June, which is 30% more than in the same period in 2019.

Yesterday, the Russian government officially submitted to the State Duma a bill on the creation of a so-called “single app store”. If it is accepted, then this store will be mandatory pre-installed on smartphones sold in the country.

FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (aka FSR 2.0), a technology that allows you to improve image quality, has appeared on GitHub. This means that now all developers, if desired, will be able to add upscaling support to games.

Medieval action game Chivalry 2 got off to a great start on Steam. The game appeared in the Valve store on June 12 and, according to the developers, has already sold over 300 thousand copies there by today.

The companies organized the Metaverse Standards Forum. Within the framework of this forum, they will try to form standards for the open metaverse and develop a common terminology. The giants are also going to discuss project prototypes, hackathons, plugins and open source tools.

In mid-May, Playkot hosted the global launch of its new Spring Valley game. By June, its business metrics had reached excellent values: the percentage of those paying was 7.7%, and the retention of the first day for organics was 41%. We talked about the history of Spring Valley and the specifics of its development with the producers of the game — Evgeny Smirnov and Konstantin Popov.

According to the Lithuanian developer and publisher Nordcurrent, the temporary office is based in Warsaw. Now it employs about 20 people, who were transferred from Odessa and Dnipro.

Colossal Order studio and publisher Paradox Interactive shared the success of the urban strategy on the official Twitter of the game. Cities: Skylines took seven years to reach this mark.

The Chinese authorities have decided to strengthen control over another area of activity. On July 22, the country’s Ministry of Culture published an extensive set of rules that all Chinese streamers are required to comply with.

Manticore Games has agreed to cooperate with MetaMask and OpenSea. She announced that now Core platform users can use NFT in their games, and at the same time released several free guides.

Kiplan Case, one of the testers of the Star Citizen space simulator, complained about his dismissal. He stated that he lost his job at Cloud Imperium Games due to the fact that he stood up for colleagues who did not want to return from the “remote” to the office.

Yesterday, a vote was held among the shareholders of Activision Blizzard. The majority of its participants (67%) supported the idea that a publisher should publish a report every year on how he fights harassment and discrimination.

Russian IT companies appealed to the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadaev with a request not to simplify the requirements and not to change the order in which new products are included in the register of domestic software. The association “Domestic Software” believes that because of this initiative, many direct clones of foreign applications will be able to get into the registry.

Rosgvardiya may appear in video games. State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein wrote a letter to the director of the Rosgvardiya with a proposal to use video games to create a positive image and “glorify” the law enforcement agency.

Swedish publisher with Russian roots G5 Entertainment has announced the launch of new branches. The head of the company, Vlad Suglobov, told Bloomberg in an interview that they will appear in four countries at once: Georgia, Malta, Montenegro and Turkey.

Saber Interactive sued Oovee Game Studios, which in 2014 released an off-road driving simulator Spintires. She accused the publisher of slander. Earlier, he stated that Saber Interactive violated the agreement concluded between them and owed “tens of millions of dollars.”

The Finnish company Supercell has invested in a newly opened studio called Channel37. It is not reported on what conditions the transaction took place.

According to rumors, a number of gaming companies have recently decided to close Russian offices or reduce employees. Among them were, for example, Game Insight, Plarium, 101XP and Xsolla. The Russian Forbes published a lot of material in which he told who else was in a similar situation.

Square Enix continues to be interested in cloud games. She invested in the Blacknut service, saying that thanks to this deal she will be able to accelerate her further growth.