Another news about investments. Stratosphere Games studio has closed a funding round in which Riot Games, 1Up Ventures and Skycatcher participated. She also received a grant from the German Games Fund.

Gallium Studios received this amount from the Griffin Gaming Partners venture fund. The money raised will be used to develop two projects — the VOXverse metaverse and the Proxi self-discovery AI simulator.

At the close of the exchange, the shares of the Swedish holding were trading at a price of $6.47 apiece.

The Witcher developers told Wyborcza about the construction of an unusual office complex. The company plans to spend several years on its construction. How much money it will take is not disclosed.

Sales of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered in the debut week were 26% higher than the PC version of God of War at the time, writes GamesIndustry.biz with a link to GSD data.

In early August, Space Ape Games studio launched Boom Beach: Frontlines in 19 more countries. It is not reported how the downloads were distributed by countries and stores.

The revenue of the Chinese gaming market continues to fall, according to Gamma Data. Analysts did not share data on all segments, but noted that the revenue of mobile alone decreased by 19.6% to $2.14 billion.

The initiator of the lawsuit is human rights activist Alex Neill. She claims that the company abused its position in the market, imposed a 30% commission on developers and inflated prices in the PS Store. As a result, over the past six years Sony has “robbed” 9 million gamers.

Two years ago, the South Korean authorities decided to pay more attention to advertising games. In September 2019, they launched a special committee, which recently published a list with standards. There are 14 items in the list in total.

The Chinese government has softened a little towards local technology companies. Officials said they do not object to Western investments if they are made in accordance with the laws.

Wargaming continues to transfer the business of operating games in Russia and Belarus to St. Petersburg Lesta Games. The company announced that a separate World of Tanks client called “World of Tanks” will be launched in these countries in September.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 33rd week of the year.

Back in March, Russian officials proposed forcibly licensing intellectual property from “unfriendly countries.” On August 19, the relevant bill officially reached the State Duma.

This is the conclusion that InvestGame came to. The company studied the situation with investments, public offerings and M&A agreements for January-June 2022.

Just last month, American gamers spent $4.18 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to NPD Group analysts.

The developers from FuturLab have announced that they have prepared a research version of the PowerWash Simulator. With its help, Oxford University staff will be able to analyze the behavior of gamers and ask them questions about how they feel.

This is 96.5% of the revenue of the entire Starbreeze company. Compared to last year, sales of the series fell, but only slightly — by 9%.

The creators of the NashStore did not tell how many people are currently using the Russian mobile marketplace.