Steam users are actively playing a low—poly analogue of Battlefield – indie shooter BattleBit Remastered for 254 players. On the night of June 20, its peak online on the Valve platform reached 61,390 people, according to SteamDB data.

The gaming market in South Korea is stabilizing. The state organization Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) found out that last year the country’s residents spent $16.4 billion on video games. This is only 0.9% more than in 2021.

Wargraphs, a company that creates companion apps for League of Legends and other games, has joined the MOBA Network. It was bought for €50 million.

Total sales of Persona 5 and its spin-offs exceeded 9 million copies. This was announced by the developers from Atlus shortly after the announcement of Persona 5 Tactica.

The Indian organization Prahar has asked the government of India to block Undawn, a survival in the post-apocalypse from Tencent, in the country. She found references in the game to the clash on the border of China and India in 2020.

The revenue of the football simulator FIFA Mobile exceeded $ 1 billion, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. The game crossed the billion-dollar milestone seven years after its release.

Nicola Sebastiani, who headed PlayStation Studios Mobile for the last two years, quit Sony.

France has decided to support game developers in Senegal. Its embassy in Senegal, together with the French studio Masseka Game Studio, invested 300 thousand euros in the creation of a “hybrid” gaming hub in the country.

Stumble Guys, a clone of Fall Guys from Finnish developers from Kitka Games, has reached a new milestone. Since the release in September 2020, the mobile version of the game has earned $ 102.18 million on microtransactions, according to the data of the AppMagic service.

The auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a report on the US gaming market. According to her estimates, in 2022 the market growth rate was the slowest in at least four years.

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is concerned that Apple device owners can only download apps from the App Store. She believes that this situation needs to be corrected.

WeChat’s WeChat product manager Li Qing said that more than 400 million people play mini-games on the Chinese platform every month. He revealed this figure during a speech at the WeChat Open Class conference.

The demo version of Lies of P has been downloaded a million times, Focus Entertainment has opened a studio to develop an “ambitious multiplayer game service”, Valve has abandoned a 10-year agreement with Microsoft – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The Russian “daughter” of Game Insight is going to put up for auction the trademarks operating in the country. The sale as part of the bankruptcy of the company will be carried out by Denis Kachura, its arbitration manager.

Dmitry Peskov, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on digital and technological development, compared video games with drugs. He stated that some Western developers are deliberately trying to cause addiction in order to earn more.

Gwen Foster, who is engaged in business development at indie studios SUPERHOT Team, Well Told Entertainment and Sad Owl Studios, decided to help colleagues from other studios. She posted a sample presentation online for pitching the game.

Extra-curricular esports classes and esports clubs may appear in Malaysian schools. The head of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the country, Hannah Yeoh, intends to discuss the launch of the initiative with representatives of the Ministry of Education.

On June 15, Epic Games announced the release of the MetaHuman Animator tool for the MetaHuman platform. It allows you to capture facial expressions of people through the iPhone camera and create realistic facial animation.

On June 2, Diablo Immortal celebrated its first birthday. Analysts data.ai we found out that in the year since its release, the game earned $525 million only on mobile devices.