Microsoft Corporation has announced the expansion of cooperation with OpenAI. She signed a “multibillion-dollar” deal with the developers of the chat bot ChatGPT for a period of several years.

Microsoft has subpoenaed Sony‘s gaming division in court as part of proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The corporation demanded Sony to disclose information about the volume and schedule of game development.

Mac Walters has announced that he is leaving BioWare. He has worked for the company for more than 19 years.

This is more than a quarter of the gaming industry’s revenue over the past year, according to Omdia analysts.

On the ResetEra forum, it was finally forbidden to mention Hogwarts Legacy. The pretext was again the statements of the writer Joanne Rowling about the transgender community.

The word puzzle Quordle now belongs to the publisher of the American dictionary Merriam-Webster. The size and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

This allowed the title to take 20th place in the British retail chart at the end of last week, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data.

At the end of last year, several large Russian software developer associations made a request to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. They proposed to permanently leave the income tax rate for accredited IT companies at 0% or return to the 3% rate, but not increase it anymore.

Rovio investors reacted positively to the news that Playtika wants to buy Angry Birds developers. During the day, the value of Rovio shares jumped by 34.4% to €7.6 per share.

Frontier Developments revealed the revenue of the game as part of the report for the first half of fiscal 2023. At the same time, she did not announce the circulation of the typhoon about the construction of a park with dinosaurs.

A wave of layoffs has reached Alphabet, which owns Google. CEO of the holding Sundar Pichai shared this news on the official blog, saying that he “deeply regrets” the decision.

Studio Owlcat Games has announced that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has been bought a million times since the release of the game in September 2021. How sales were distributed across platforms is not specified.

Scenario startup, which developed a neural network of the same name for generating game assets, successfully conducted a seed round of financing. He received $6 million from venture capital companies Play Ventures, Anorak Ventures, Founders, co-founders of Oculus, Twitch and a number of other investors.

We summed up the results of last year together with Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO and co-founder of AppFollow. He spoke about the difficulties faced by the company, as well as about the key changes in the ASO market.

The French publisher Focus Entertainment shared the results of the third financial quarter, which ended on December 31, 2022. During this period, he earned €76.1 million — €39 million more than a year earlier.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference have published an annual large-scale study on the state of the gaming industry. As part of it, over 2,300 developers were interviewed.

The creators of League of Legends, in a comment for journalist Jacob Wolf, reported that they had indeed fired a number of employees. In total, 46 people were cut — this is less than 1% of the Riot Games staff.

Reuters has learned that the Israeli holding company Playtika has made a proposal to consolidate with the Finnish developer and publisher of games Rovio, best known for the Angry Birds franchise.