In the first quarter of 2022, the Chinese gaming industry earned more than $12 billion. The market continues to grow, and mobile games account for the bulk of revenue.

GEM Capital investment company announced new investments in Eastern Europe. She carried out a pre-sowing round to the Cyprus Skich, part of whose team works from Poland.

The mobile application growth platform Appodeal has announced a set of gaming products in the eponymous business accelerator. With the editors App2Top.ru the company shared what projects it is primarily interested in today.

Activision Blizzard reported on the first quarter of 2022 (ended March 31). Compared to last year, this time the company’s results were much more modest. In the period from January to March, her earnings amounted to $1.77 billion.

How much the earnings of top mobile games in Russia have decreased and how significantly the volumes of the domestic mobile entertainment market have fallen since the end of February — I was looking at the AppMagic database App2Top.ru .

On Friday, Bloomberg and Kotaku publications announced the interest of investment funds in the acquisition of Ubisoft. After that, the company’s shares began to grow.

Last week, Steam Deck and Elden Ring became the leaders in the Steam bestseller chart again. But the third place unexpectedly went to Cyberpunk 2077. A 50% discount helped him return to the top ten best-selling games.

How to work with new players in blockchain games using the example of a sales funnel, – said Sergey Labutin, leader of the NFT direction CM Games (formerly Creative Mobile).

Indie developers have a chance to have a hand in the famous vampire franchise. Paradox Interactive has launched an initiative to develop new games for the Unbound side project on the universe of the World of Darkness (World of Darkness).

The law firm Prospectacy has prepared a large-scale material on the taxation of foreign income in Russia. It touches on the topics of controlled foreign companies, how to calculate profits on them and pay tax (as well as what changed in these rules in March).

Developers from Russia were given back the opportunity to receive payments from Steam. Yesterday, the administration of the platform sent a system message with instructions for the updated payment system.

ResearchAndMarkets.com posted a report on the development of the African gaming market after the pandemic. According to the study, in the period from 2021 to 2026, it will grow by 12% annually.

In January 2022, David Edery posted on Twitter a post reaction to the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. His position attracted the attention of Simon Carless, and then prompted further discussion about the future of the industry.

About the reasons that push game developers to sell their own titles to other companies, in their column for App2Top.ru Yana Vesnina, M&A manager of ZiMAD, told us.

Mobile publisher and developer Azur Games continues to expand into the gaming blockchain market. The company announced the launch of a new direction within its walls. It will publish and support gaming teams that want to take up NFT gaming.

New consequences of sanctions. Swedish gaming holding EG7 has announced plans to sell the company Innova. The deal is estimated at €32 million. This is much less than the amount for which Innova was purchased in February last year.

We are publishing a new pool of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a project manager at Game Insight, a senior UI artist at Perfect Play and a level designer at ExoGenesis.

Last week, the National Press and Publication Commission (NPPA) resumed issuing gaming licenses after a nine-month freeze. However, foreign studios still have no access to the Chinese market.

On June 7-8, the WN Istanbul’22 gaming business Conference will be held in one of the largest cities in Turkey. It will host an exhibition of developers. Now the organizers are collecting applications from the teams. Participation in the exhibition is free of charge.