Developers from Russia were given back the opportunity to receive payments from Steam. Yesterday, the administration of the platform sent a system message with instructions for the updated payment system.

ResearchAndMarkets.com posted a report on the development of the African gaming market after the pandemic. According to the study, in the period from 2021 to 2026, it will grow by 12% annually.

In January 2022, David Edery posted on Twitter a post reaction to the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. His position attracted the attention of Simon Carless, and then prompted further discussion about the future of the industry.

About the reasons that push game developers to sell their own titles to other companies, in their column for App2Top.ru Yana Vesnina, M&A manager of ZiMAD, told us.

Mobile publisher and developer Azur Games continues to expand into the gaming blockchain market. The company announced the launch of a new direction within its walls. It will publish and support gaming teams that want to take up NFT gaming.

New consequences of sanctions. Swedish gaming holding EG7 has announced plans to sell the company Innova. The deal is estimated at €32 million. This is much less than the amount for which Innova was purchased in February last year.

We are publishing a new pool of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a project manager at Game Insight, a senior UI artist at Perfect Play and a level designer at ExoGenesis.

Last week, the National Press and Publication Commission (NPPA) resumed issuing gaming licenses after a nine-month freeze. However, foreign studios still have no access to the Chinese market.

On June 7-8, the WN Istanbul’22 gaming business Conference will be held in one of the largest cities in Turkey. It will host an exhibition of developers. Now the organizers are collecting applications from the teams. Participation in the exhibition is free of charge.

The Bombora publishing house is going to release in Russian “Resident Evil. Resident evil of the gaming industry”. This is a book about the formation of an iconic survival horror franchise. We tell you what’s under the cover, and share a small excerpt.

Microsoft is developing a program to add advertising inside free games on Xbox, Business Insider reports. According to the sources of the publication, its release is scheduled for the third quarter of 2022.

Released in early April, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did not hold the lead in the Steam bestseller chart. As a result of last week, its publications were located in third and fourth places, and the top of the top meanwhile went to a portable PC from Valve.

Metacore has been growing rapidly over the past two years. If in 2020 the studio’s turnover was only €3.5 million, then by the end of 2021 it has grown to almost €58 million. The studio’s CEO, Mika Tammenkoski, believes that by 2022 the studio’s revenues will reach €150-180 million.

Last year, Axie Infinity became a phenomenon in the NFT games market. By August 2021, the volume of trading operations within the game reached $848.18 million. But in the future, the project was overwhelmed by a wave of crises, because of which the developers had to revise the original concept. We have prepared an analysis of the main problems of the Axie Infinity gaming economy based on The Verge publication.

Yesterday, Tencent announced that it will no longer support unlicensed foreign games. Starting from May 31, the company will change the operation of the services through which players gained access to them.

WN Media Group shared details about the first WN Conference in Turkey. The specific dates of the event, the venue, the expected number of guests, the starting pool of speakers and the features of the program became known.

In China, the issuance of licenses for the sale of games has resumed. Yesterday, the government approved a list of 45 games approved for release. As a result, the shares of gaming companies began to grow.

For three years, Embracer Group has been buying game studios and publishing houses. This turned a local Swedish developer into the largest gaming holding in Europe. The founder and CEO of the company, Lars Wingefors, announced his intention to conduct about 60 more mergers in the “coming months and years.”

There are new vacancies in the gaming industry. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD and a game producer at Dankolab.