11 years have passed since the release of the Japanese Puzzle & Dragons mobile battler, but this does not prevent the project from still making good money. Sensor Tower estimates that by the end of February, Buttler’s revenue exceeded $6.7 billion.

US Senator Maria Cantwell is alarmed by the situation on the AAA games market in Japan. At the last meeting in the US Senate, she accused Sony of monopoly, saying that the company owns 98% of the market.

VK Group has revised the policy regarding the commission in RuStore. She announced that from April 1, she will reduce the commission from 15% to 0.9%-3.35%, depending on the payment method chosen by the user. The new conditions will be in effect until the end of the year.

Take-Two Interactive may have made a new purchase. The network noticed that the subscription service GameClub, which specializes in retro mobile games, came under the control of the company.

Microsoft has been trying for several years to reduce its negative impact on the climate. Now she has announced a new initiative. At the GDC 2023 conference, Microsoft presented a set of tools for eco—friendly game development – the Xbox Developer Sustainability ToolKit.

The Polish company Huuuge Games, which develops mobile games in the genre of social casino, is preparing for cuts. She announced that she will lay off 10% of employees by the end of next month.

By the end of the year, Unreal Engine Marketplace, ArtStation Marketplace and other Epic Games trading platforms will become a single platform “for searching, exchanging, buying and selling digital assets.” It’s called Fab.

Metacritic portal has published a list of the highest-rated publishers for 2022. The first place in it went to Sony, and Microsoft, which was in the lead a year earlier, did not get into the top this time.

Not a day without news about AI. This time the info guide is from Unity. The company is working on an AI ecosystem that will “put AI game development tools in the hands of millions of creators.”

On March 22, Epic Games released a beta version of Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), an application with which gamers can make games inside the Battle royale. The company also announced that it will share Fortnite revenue with the authors of such content.

Atari has agreed to purchase Night Dive Studios, an American company that is currently working on a remake of the original System Shock. The maximum amount of the transaction can be $20 million.

The Vedomosti newspaper, citing a government representative, reports that there may be one more gaming association in Russia. She will be engaged, in particular, in the development of the export potential of the Russian games.

We could not pass by the announcement of the sequel to one of the most popular games in the world (recall that DAU Counter-Strike on PC consistently holds above 1 million).

Chinese giant Tencent has set a new anti-record. The company reported that it earned $79.6 billion last year — 1% less compared to 2021. This is the first drop in Tencent’s annual revenue since at least 2004, when the company went public.

Supercell is preparing to permanently close access to Clash Royale, Braw Stars and its other games for Russian and Belarusian users. The company has announced that it will do this by the end of May.

Microsoft has celebrated the 10th anniversary of the ID@Xbox program. In honor of this, she shared a number of numbers.

The Russian authorities want to stimulate the development of Russian simulators for controlling drones and other similar equipment. The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation believes that game studios can create such software.

At the end of last year, 10 gamers from the United States decided to prevent Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard and sued the corporation. Their attempt was unsuccessful. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that there was not enough evidence in it.

The Russian government may help domestic developers with publishing games in China. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed gaming companies that are part of the Competence Center for the Development of System-wide and Applied Software for Gaming Services (hereinafter CCR) to prepare proposals for the necessary measures of state support for the export of games.