The authors of Call of Duty are expanding their presence in Europe. Infinity Ward Studio has announced that it has a team in Barcelona.

In January 2023, it became known that some of the developers who worked on the game were missing from the credits of The Callisto Protocol. Six months later, the Striking Distance studio updated the titles and added missed specialists to them.

Gamers around the world have bought Final Fantasy XVI over 3 million times, the Famitsu portal reports, citing a Square Enix press release.

Hi-Rez Studios, which has Paladins, SMITE and Rogue Company games in its portfolio, has changed its business structure. She announced that she had divided her studios between three divisions.

Analytical company data.ai published a list with mobile publishers in whose applications users spent the most money in 2022. Tencent became the highest earning publisher for the sixth time in a row.

On June 27, Unity unveiled three AI-related projects: the AI Hub marketplace, the Unity Muse suite of AI tools, and a cross-platform solution that integrates AI into the runtime environment, Unity Sentis. Against this background, its shares rose by 15.38%.

In 2021, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), due to the COVID-19 pandemic, held an E3 gaming exhibition in an online format. As the IGN portal found out, at least $6 million was spent on organizing the event.

The analytical company Circana (formerly NPD Group) has released a report on the American gaming market for May 2023. Against the background of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, revenue increased for all segments.

Unity has begun to form its own AI ecosystem. She announced the launch of three projects related to artificial intelligence.

More developers have started using the Yandex advertising network. The company reported that by June 2023, the number of mobile applications on the network had grown to 10 thousand. A year ago, there were half as many of them.

Microsoft Corporation cut production of Xbox Series consoles on release to save chips for the Xbox Cloud Gaming cloud service. This is stated in a letter from the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer), a copy of which is in court documents.

In court documents published as part of the hearings on the lawsuit of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Microsoft, the cost of buying the Ninja Theory studio was disclosed. It amounted to $117 million.

At the end of 2019, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, suggested that Microsoft increase annual spending on the purchase of games for Game Pass to $2-3 billion. In his opinion, this would help to take Sony out of the game subscription business, since in a few years there would be a shortage of valuable content on the market.

In 2021, Microsoft compiled a voluminous list of game studios and publishers that it is considering for purchase. It includes almost 200 companies, including CD PROJEKT RED, Activision Blizzard, Devolver Digital, Mundfish and MY.GAMES.

The publisher Nexon announced that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia bought another part of its shares.

The Realm Online — MMORPG, launched in December 1996, may close soon. Realm Worlds studio, which is currently supporting the game, has announced plans to turn off the servers.

On June 19, Yakuza series games were released in the GOG digital store. As noted by the editor Timo653, fewer people noted in the titles of these versions of titles than in versions for other platforms.

According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube has started testing a system of embedded games, the authors of Alan Wake paid $ 1 for using a quote from Stephen King, Final Fantasy XVI started in British retail worse than the previous part — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Red Rover Interactive is a new studio opened by former employees of Funcom, Bohemia Interactive and other companies. They have already attracted the first investments and will now develop multiplayer survivalists.