Swedish gaming holding Enad Global 7 (EG7) announced the imminent closure of its subsidiary studio Antimatter Games. It will stop working in the summer of 2023.

Last year, Russian game developers had difficulties with access to foreign software and a shortage of domestic analogues. The Gaming Association A PRIORI decided to deal with the problem.

The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) believes that in 2023 the revenue of the Russian gaming market will begin to grow again. Maria Saikina, the chief analyst of the association, shared this forecast in an interview with TASS.

The critics didn’t like the stealth action The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It took the last two lines in the list of the lowest rated games of 2023 according to Metacritic.

The humanitarian organization UNICEF wants to increase the number of female game developers. Together with GameLab, the video game development and research laboratory at the Kazakh-British Technical University, she prepared a free course on video games.

Astrum Entertainment will start monetizing streams. Kommersant noticed that in early May she registered a special service, which she called AdvertDA.

Videos related to video games are very popular in TikTok. Over the past year, they have been viewed over 3 trillion times.

The CEO of Focus Entertainment, Sean Brennan, has left his post. He ran the company for only four months.

Ubisoft announced that 5 million people got acquainted with the Trackmania arcade race. The game took this bar three years after its release.

Microsoft has appealed to the Competition Court of Appeal in the UK. She asked to reconsider the decision of the antimonopoly regulator, which at the end of April blocked the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

A Chinese court sided with NetEase in a dispute with Alibaba. He agreed that Alibaba copied 79 elements of the Three Kingdoms Tactics mobile strategy from the Invincible game.

Amazon has decided to discontinue the Amazon Appstore in China. It will close on July 17, the newspaper The Paper reports with reference to the company’s letter.

SEGA has reduced the staff at Relic Entertainment studio, known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Age of Empires IV. 121 employees were made redundant.

VK Group announced that self-employed developers will be able to earn money on applications in RuStore. This feature will appear in the near future.

The AppMetrica analytical service has received an update. It has a tool for tracking subscriptions.

On the afternoon of May 24, the value of Embracer Group‘s shares collapsed by more than 40%. Most likely, the reason was the failure of the $2 billion deal, which the company reported in its annual financial report.

One of the largest shareholders of the Swedish gaming holding EG7 is dissatisfied with the way things are going. Alta Fox appealed to the EG7 board of directors and recommended that alternative business development options, including the sale of the company, be immediately explored.

Embracer Group reported for the last fiscal year ended March 31. She reported an increase in profits and sales, as well as the successes of Dead Island 2 and Metro Exodus.

During the presentation to investors, Sony also revealed sales of PC versions of two games: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and The Last of Us Part I.