Kepler Interactive called the releases of Scorn and Sifu very successful, Ubisoft closed its division in Italy, and Team17 announced layoffs — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

On March 15, Unity published a study on the main trends in game development for the beginning of 2023. We wrote briefly about the report last week. In the current publication — in detail about him in Russian.

The Atomic Heart shooter has become the second most popular novelty this spring in M.Video-Eldorado. However, it sold four times worse than Hogwarts Legacy.

For the second time in a month, the European regulator has pushed back the date by which it should make a final decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

The second material by Evgeny Gilmanov, head of monetization at Belka Games, is about the principles that guide the development and implementation of a monetization strategy in the company.

MMO Palia about life in the village has not yet been released, but it has already attracted hundreds of thousands of users. The developers from Singularity 6 said that to date, 600 thousand people have applied to participate in testing the game.

Square Enix decided to help employees cope with rising prices in Japan. She announced that she will pay a higher salary from April.

Facepunch Studios planned to meet with fans at the GDC developer conference next week. However, the meeting had to be canceled after several studio employees received death threats.

The analytical company Newzoo has published a detailed report on the state of the console and PC games market in 2022.

In September last year ESforce esports holding, part of VK Group, sold the club Virtus.pro . At that time, the amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but VK named it in the financial report for 2022.

Robert Kurvitz and Alexander Rostov commented on a recent ZA/UM press release, in which it was reported that the former developers of Disco Elysium had abandoned claims against the studio. They stated that this was not the case.

Perhaps Roblox and Unity will soon be “covered”. The announcement of UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite), “a new computer application for designing, developing and publishing games and content directly in Fortnite,” took place.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. Wanted this week: technical artist at Lesta Games, game producer at Craft Games and senior designer at WN Media Group.

Three months ago, Criterion Games left five executives at once, each of whom had worked at the company for over 10 years. Now they have announced the opening of their own studio called Fuse Games.

Hypercausal publisher Supersonic Studios has crossed a new frontier. According to the PocketGamer portal, the company’s portfolio has collected 3.4 billion downloads. This result was achieved in three years.

Video game developer Nexters announced its “unfreezing” on the US stock exchange Nasdaq. Since March 16, operations with its securities — shares and warrants — have been resumed.

In August last year, a virtual humanoid robot with artificial intelligence became the CEO of the Chinese developer of MMO games NetDragon Websoft. The unusual management reshuffle had a good effect on the company’s shares.

The authors of the Midjourney neural network, which generates images based on a text description, have released Midjourney V5 to the public. Now she creates more realistic art.

VK Group reported for the fourth quarter and the whole of 2022. In the financial report, she, among other things, told about the indicators of playgrounds.