The Chinese giant Tencent has taken another step towards creating its own metaverse. The company announced to employees the official launch of a division that specializes in XR. This is reported by Reuters, with reference to three people familiar with the issue.

According to Vladimir Zykov, project director of Digital Platforms, at the moment, developers from 63 countries have sent applications to the Russian store. The majority from Belarus are 182 teams. There are also enough applications from Kazakh (21), Ukrainian (21), Armenian (18) and Uzbek (16) developers.

The publisher of mobile games AppQuantum with the support of WN Media Group has launched a game contest. The focus is on casual projects. The winners will receive up to a million dollars for marketing.

David Chalmers shared his opinion in a conversation with the PC Gamer portal. He said that if people can recreate a full-fledged simulation of the human brain on a computer, they will get a consciousness similar to ours.

This was stated by the head of the department Maksut Shadaev in an interview with the RBC TV channel. He explained that mostly those IT specialists who “left on emotions” and could not find a job quickly returned.

The developers of another game boasted strong sales. This time, the success was reported by the authors of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, who stated that in two years the sales of their project reached the mark of 3 million copies.

On May 24, Focus Entertainment and Blackbird Interactive released Hardspace: Shipbreaker from early access, a game in which spaceships need to be disassembled into details. Since then, the simulator has managed to sell 500 thousand copies.

The mobile version of Apex Legends was released on May 17. According to AppMagic statistics, its revenue for the first month was $12.4 million, and downloads exceeded 22 million.

Action RPG Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Risen has started to attract the attention of gamers again. According to SteamDB, 6582 Steam users played it at the same time yesterday. The last time an online title crossed this line was six years ago.

On Sunday, the Chinese giant NetEase announced that it will not release Diablo Immortal in China yet. This happened just four days before the release of the game. As a result, the company’s shares crept down on Monday morning.

Gaming experts, together with lawyers, have begun working on a draft law on the regulation of games in Russia, Vedomosti reports, citing two sources. If it is accepted, then Russian developers will be able to count on at least three support measures.

As a result of last week, Valve‘s portable console again became the best—selling on Steam – for the third week in a row. However, the rest of the bestseller chart has changed a lot. This time, five new products got into it at once, including Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

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.

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

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.