A year ago, Ilya Tumenko, a former Publishing Director at AppQuantum, together with an anonymous investor, launched his own publishing house — 10k Riders Publishing. It became known that the company recently raised $ 500 thousand. This money was given by Embria venture capital firm.

The VG Insights service estimated that from January to June, premium games on Steam earned a total of $3.1 billion (excluding IAP). Although this is 3% more than last year, it’s too early to rejoice. As analysts have suggested, by the end of 2022, the total sales of such titles will remain at the level of 2021 or even fall.

The Indian market has seriously attracted the attention of PUBG developers. In an interview with TechCrunch, the head of Krafton India mentioned that since 2020, the South Korean company has managed to invest $ 100 million in the region. She is going to invest the same amount or more before the end of this year. She also has plans to release several new games.

Capcom shared the results of the first fiscal quarter ended June 30. The Japanese company said that its net sales sank to $184.6 million (-47.9%), and operating profit — to $88.27 (-48.9%).

Chinese gamers greeted the release of Diablo Immortal with enthusiasm. According to SCMP, yesterday the queues to connect to some popular servers exceeded 5 thousand people. But not everyone who managed to play was happy with what they saw.

Meta* became interested in the Canadian startup AdHawk Microsystems. According to Bloomberg, the corporation is thinking about what to officially offer him a deal in the coming weeks.

In mid-May, the developers of the urban planner Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic released a charity DLC, the proceeds from the sale of which they promised to donate to Ukraine. The other day, the studio reported that it sold 5,575 copies of the add-on, collecting $ 26.1 thousand.

In 2017, Roblox began preparing for the launch of the platform in China. However, the matter was complicated by the fact that she did not trust potential partners. According to the company, any of them, including Tencent, could want to create their own version of her brainchild.

The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of controlling the NFT market in the country. The Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Central Bank and business, at which it proposed to make several changes to the laws. In particular, to establish the legal status of the NFT and to prescribe the issues related to the issuance and circulation of tokens, as well as consumer protection.

AppMagic analysts told which hyper-casual games were the most popular in the App Store and Google Play in the second quarter of 2022. This time, the first two places in the top went to Supersonic Studios projects at once.

Diablo Immortal has been released in China today. Its release was successful, although it took place a month later than planned. Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to the fact that Diablo Immortal immediately became the first in downloads among games in the local App Store.

The Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) has asked the FAS to initiate a case against Twitch. In his opinion, the platform violated the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation when it stopped making payments to Russian streamers.

Another studio has appeared in Turkey, which has decided to develop mobile games. It’s called L8 Studios. At the end of last week, she announced that she had attracted the first investments — from WePlay Ventures and Lima Ventres.

37Games is a publisher of mobile and browser games, known primarily for Puzzles & Survival, Wild Frontier and Jurassic Tribes. Recently, it was reported on Chinese social networks that the company had closed a branch in Chengdu. It employed about 30 people.

The success of the game was told by journalist Christopher Dring from Gamesindustry.biz, referring to the GfK data.

Let’s figure out which projects earned the most on Steam in the 29th week of the year.

Russian gamers have become more likely to buy retro consoles. According to Ozon estimates, such devices sold 58% better this June than a year ago. The most popular consoles were Dendy, Sega, Game Boy, Magistr and Game Box.

The French gaming holding company Focus Entertainment reported for April-June. In three months, the holding earned €38.2 million. Most of the revenue is provided by the initial sales of the pixel bitmap Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s revenge.