Last year, Electronic Arts (hereinafter EA) spent more than $3 billion on M&A. As follows from the analysis published by Deconstructor of Fun, transactions can hardly be called successful for EA. The company is once again stepping on the same rake.

For two weeks now, a hard lockdown has been going on in Shanghai, associated with a new outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic. In conditions of complete isolation, gaming companies support their employees by delivering products to them for free.

A month and a half later, Elden Ring stopped topping the Steam bestseller chart. Now LEGO Star Wars has climbed to the top of the rating: The Skywalker Saga, which snatched four places at once, including the first.

Almost 20% of the surveyed Russian-speaking game developers had left their home countries by the beginning of April. These are the results of a survey conducted at the end of March App2Top.ru and Talents In Games.

Last week, a free online conference for game developers Talents in Games was held. We share its results, and at the same time a link to the video recordings of lectures.

Take-Two announced the sale of $2.7 billion worth of bonds. The proceeds will be part of the amount that the company plans to pay for the purchase of the Zynga mobile publisher.

The Government of the Russian Federation chooses an import substitute for the App Store and Google Play. Earlier, ANO “Digital Platforms” announced the NashStore. Now its competitors can become “Sber”, “Yandex” and VK.

On March 2, 2022, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the main measures to support the IT industry. Versus.Legal has prepared an overview of who can apply for new benefits and how to get them.

Voodoo has launched the online platform Voodoo Academy. Its goal is to teach the basics of hyper–casual game development to young professionals, as well as to support their projects.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint goes down in history. Ubisoft has no plans to develop the project, as well as to make new NFT content for it.

Google is unhappy with developers from South Korea. The company has banned updating applications that use third-party billing bypassing the store’s commission. However, such actions caused conflicts with the Korean government.

AppMagic analysts found out which hyper-casual games collected the most downloads in early 2022. The first place in the quarterly top this time went to Merge Master — Dinosaur Fusion from Homa Games.

There are new vacancies in the gaming industry. This week they are wanted: a leading game designer at Playrix, a UA manager at Matryoshka Games and a leading game designer at Zeptolab.

As part of The State of Unreal 2022, Epic Games announced the release of a full version of Unreal Engine 5. Now anyone can download the engine.

The founder and CEO of Roblox, David Baszucki, may receive a compensation payment of about $233 million in connection with the company’s success.

The Russian government has allocated 21.5 billion rubles from the reserve fund to support the IT sector. This became known from the government decree of April 1, 2022.

Almost a quarter of gaming companies with offices/ employees in Russia conducted indexing, or made additional payments to their employees due to rising inflation.

The network has information about possible cuts in 1C Entertainment due to the geopolitical situation. The decision to stop working in the country was made recently by the company that owns Tencent. update: The CEO of 1C Entertainment issued a rebuttal.

The developer and publisher of the World of Tanks series has announced a review of its business processes. The company is no longer going to work in Russia and Belarus. She’s leaving both countries.