News June 20, 2022

The main thing for the weekend (June 18-19)

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) has revealed how much it is going to invest in video games in 2022, Nintendo has sued the operator of the Russian “Nintendo World”, and the creators of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reported strong sales, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

News June 17, 2022

The official account of Diablo Immortal was blocked in Chinese Weibo for “violating the rules of the platform”

What specific rules the game account violated is not reported. It is also unknown how long the lockdown will last.

News June 17, 2022

By December, Motorsport Games shares may be excluded from trading on NASDAQ

A year and a half ago, Motorsport Games, which develops racing games under a NASCAR license, successfully entered the stock exchange — it raised $69 million through an IPO with an estimate of $ 510 million. However, now the company faces delisting.

News June 17, 2022

Immutable Launched a $500 Million Fund for Blockchain Game Developers

The Australian company Immutable, specializing in Web3, has decided to open another blockchain fund. She announced that within four years she is going to invest $500 million in developers of games for her Immutable X platform.

News June 17, 2022

Pushwoosh: 57% of Android users stop logging into the game on the same day that they installed it

Android games have a hard time keeping an audience. Pushwoosh has calculated that on average their first-day retention rate is 43%. After a week, it drops to 32.2%, and after a month — to 24.6%.

News June 17, 2022

Sales of V Rising reached the mark of 2 million copies

In a month of early access, the vampire survival V Rising was able to sell 2 million copies. Developers from Stunlock Studios, in an interview with the Eurogamer portal, called this figure “amazing” and said they were proud of the launch of the game.

Contests June 17, 2022

Azur Games has launched a concept competition on game modes for Axes Metaverse. The winner will receive $100 thousand for development

An unusual initiative from Azur Games. A developer and publisher of mobile games has announced a competition to create a concept for a new game mode for the Axes metaverse. The winning team will receive a grant for its implementation in the amount of $ 100 thousand, as well as 15% of all its future profits.

News June 17, 2022

Bloomberg: ByteDance dissolved Shanghai 101 Studio

The ByteDance gaming direction has problems. Bloomberg sources report that TikTok‘s parent company has decided to close one of its studios — 101 Studio. Over a hundred developers are out of work.

News June 17, 2022

Epic Online Services has a crossplay feature between Epic Games Store and Steam

The Epic Online Services toolkit has acquired a new feature. The Epic Games team has announced that developers can now add crossplay to PC games. So far, this can only be done for the Epic Games Store and Steam, but later the function will work in other stores.

News June 17, 2022

Mobile Diablo Immortal has earned over $24 million in two weeks since its release

The Telegram channel GameDev Reports drew attention to the performance of the game. With reference to the data of the AppMagic service, he said that for the two debut weeks, the revenue of the mobile version of Diablo Immortal alone amounted to $ 24.3 million, and downloads — 8.5 million.

News June 17, 2022

Netflix mobile games have been downloaded more than 13 million times in total

Last year, Netflix started adding mobile games to its platform. According to Sensor Tower analysts, at the moment their total downloads have exceeded 13 million.

News June 17, 2022

UNI Global Union: 66% of game developers have low salaries

More than half of the employees of game studios believe that they are underpaid. This is stated in the study of the Federation of trade Unions UNI Global Union, which interviewed specialists from 29 countries.

News June 17, 2022

The head of Electronic Arts has reduced the annual bonus — by $19.3 million at once

According to a recent report by Electronic Arts (EA), for the 12 months ending in March 2022, Andrew Wilson received $19.9 million. This is significantly less than a year ago, when his bonus was $39.2 million.

News June 17, 2022

Media: Plarium closes the Russian office. Some of the employees can be transported abroad

The developer and publisher of Raid: Shadow Legends will stop working in Russia. Information has appeared on the network that Plarium is closing a division located in Krasnodar.

News June 16, 2022

The FTC will check whether the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal will harm employees Who Reported harassment

The news that Microsoft has agreed to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion has concerned public figures and human rights activists. They noted that the deal could exacerbate the problem of discrimination and harassment in the publishing house. Now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has assured that it is investigating the takeover from this side.

News June 16, 2022

Jordanian mobile publisher Tamatem Games enters the Chinese market

Mobile publisher Tamatem Games from Jordan has announced a strategic partnership with venture capital company MSA Novo. As part of the cooperation, he plans to bring his games to the Chinese market.

News June 16, 2022

McKinsey & Co.: By 2030, the gaming metaverse market will reach $125 billion

McKinsey & Co., a consulting company, believes that the concept of the metaverse has great potential. She predicts that in eight years the metaverse market will be valued at $5 trillion. However, only 2.5% of this amount will be spent on games.

News June 16, 2022

Activision Blizzard’s board of Directors said it did not ignore or downplay harassment cases in the company

Activision Blizzard has promised to report regularly to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on how the internal investigation concerning harassment in the company is progressing. In a recent report, the board of directors pointed out that neither he nor independent consultants found evidence that the publisher deliberately hushed up the problem.

News June 16, 2022

The Xbox CFO doubts that the problems with the supply of gaming hardware will be solved before the end of 2022

Tim Stuart said this during a conversation with investors. In his opinion, the situation has worsened due to a new series of lockdowns in China.

News June 16, 2022

Bango: 31% of surveyed game studios may close due to stricter requirements for personal data protection

In recent years, regulators around the world and large technology companies have begun to pay more attention to user privacy. The marketing company Bango decided to figure out how what is happening affects the mobile business. To do this, she interviewed more than 300 developers and marketers from the UK and the USA.

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The main thing for the weekend (June 18-19)

The official account of Diablo Immortal was blocked in Chinese Weibo for “violating the rules of the platform”

By December, Motorsport Games shares may be excluded from trading on NASDAQ

Immutable Launched a $500 Million Fund for Blockchain Game Developers

Pushwoosh: 57% of Android users stop logging into the game on the same day that they installed it

Sales of V Rising reached the mark of 2 million copies

Azur Games has launched a concept competition on game modes for Axes Metaverse. The winner will receive $100 thousand for development

Bloomberg: ByteDance dissolved Shanghai 101 Studio

Epic Online Services has a crossplay feature between Epic Games Store and Steam

Mobile Diablo Immortal has earned over $24 million in two weeks since its release

Netflix mobile games have been downloaded more than 13 million times in total

UNI Global Union: 66% of game developers have low salaries

The head of Electronic Arts has reduced the annual bonus — by $19.3 million at once

Media: Plarium closes the Russian office. Some of the employees can be transported abroad

The FTC will check whether the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal will harm employees Who Reported harassment

Jordanian mobile publisher Tamatem Games enters the Chinese market

McKinsey & Co.: By 2030, the gaming metaverse market will reach $125 billion

Activision Blizzard’s board of Directors said it did not ignore or downplay harassment cases in the company

The Xbox CFO doubts that the problems with the supply of gaming hardware will be solved before the end of 2022

Bango: 31% of surveyed game studios may close due to stricter requirements for personal data protection