The organizers of the WN Conference announced the format of closed round tables. It is focused exclusively on top managers of gaming companies and assumes the absence of listeners.

Another Russian studio has announced cuts. Moscow Tipping Point, which worked on the Mech Invasion geolocation battler, has been disbanded. At least 21 people will lose their jobs.

A post about the company’s volunteer culture has appeared on the website of the Yakut developer Fntastic. It also offers to help the company with translation and the community on a non-commercial basis.

There was information that at one time Activision Blizzard was negotiating the purchase of Dota 2. The deal did not take place. One of the reasons is that the parties did not agree on the price.

Despite the fact that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have services that open subscription access to games, there is no need to talk about a high level of penetration of the service even in Japan.

About 29% of Tencent‘s shares belong to the South African media group Naspers. And she’s going to get rid of them. This affects the price of Tencent.

Last week, the Steam release of the Raft survival took place. The discount, the joy of fans from the event, as well as an advertising campaign on Twitch allowed the project of the Swedish indie studio Redbeet Interactive to reach 100 thousand people online on Sunday.

The new Blizzard game remains not only in the focus of attention, but also under fire from critics. According to new data, in order to pump one game character, it will take not $ 100 thousand, as previously thought, but as much as $ 540 thousand.

We are discussing which project earned the most money on Steam in the 25th week of the year.

The Danish studio SYBO, famous for the Subway Surfers runner, now belongs to the Swiss Miniclip, whose majority owner, in turn, is the Chinese Tencent.

Russian gamers have become more economical. This conclusion was reached by the specialists of the Moscow Credit Bank (MKB), who studied the expenses of their customers for the first five months of 2022.

Yesterday VK announced a change in the commission policy of the VK Play platform, whose store component is the Russian equivalent of Steam. Now developers can count on 95% of the sales of games hosted on the site. We talked in detail about the nuances of the initiative with Rodion Kotelnikov, CTO VK Play.

343 Industries is thinking about the appearance of microtransactions in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The developers wrote in a blog that they are going to rename the seasonal glasses issued for passing the tests into “Spartan glasses”. Later they will be allowed to buy them for real money.

Xbox consoles managed to beat PlayStation for weekly sales in Japan for the second time in a month and a half. According to Famitsu, last week the Japanese bought 6695 copies of the Xbox Series and 3035 copies of the PlayStation 5.

Mobile developer Tripledot Studios, known for Woodoku and PuzzleTime puzzles, has received a new achievement. He took third place in The Growth 100 ranking compiled by FEBE, a list of hundreds of British public companies whose sales have grown the most in two years.

This is reported by the business portal Bankier.pl . According to him, at the beginning of the first day of trading, Games Box shares fell sharply to 8.5 zlotys or $1.9 apiece. Because of what exactly this happened is unclear.

On June 17, a game developed by students of the University of Breda appeared on Steam. This is a free first-person shooter Alien Removal Division about aliens who have captured a secret military research center. As the students boast, more than 30 thousand people downloaded their game in a week.

The Rec Room platform, whose users can create their own virtual worlds, has turned six years old. In honor of this, the developers shared several figures.