The French publisher Homa (formerly Homa Games) decided to pay more attention to the blockchain. The company is going to add tools for creating web3 projects to its technology stack.

The first half of fiscal 2023 turned out to be more successful for Bandai Namco than the company expected. The Japanese publisher beat its forecast by ¥47.6 billion or $340 million at the current exchange rate.

The VR market managed to achieve an “explosive” investment growth, not least thanks to the support from the authorities, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China reported.

Hideo Kojima spoke about his desire during the Anan Awards ceremony in Japan, where he was awarded for his work on Death Stranding. The game designer said that in the “digital environment” everything is connected to each other.

The State Duma deputy criticized the proposal to ban games in Russia with propaganda of cruelty, LGBT and many other things, God of War: Ragnarök showed the largest launch in the series in British retail, and Nintendo began to refuse to repair devices to toxic Japanese gamers — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Krafton mentioned the purchase as part of its third quarter financial report. She did not disclose the amount and terms of the transaction.

The head of the Ministry, Maksut Shadaev, said that the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is considering the terms of the program that will help “remove fears and fears” of IT specialists who have left the country.

Today it became known that in Russia they want to ban video games with propaganda of LGBT, violence, drugs and much more. Yana Lantratova, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education, in an interview with “Gazeta.Ru” named some of these titles.

GamesIndustry portal.biz wrote about the success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II with reference to GSD data. The journalists did not give specific figures, but also stated that the new Call of Duty has already become the third best-selling game of the year in Europe.

This is stated by the analytical company data.ai . According to her estimates, since 2013, the Talking Tom franchise has annually led the world’s top downloads among mobile games by IP, overtaking Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds and other hits.

Now developers of non-gaming applications can add third-party payment systems also for users from the USA, Brazil and South Africa.

On November 10, MEPs adopted a resolution to support video games and esports. Now they have to develop a long-term strategy for the development of industries.

The author of the idea is Yana Lantratova, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education. According to Izvestia, she proposed to make appropriate amendments to the bill banning LGBT propaganda in the country.

The funding round for the British startup Anything World was led by the venture capital company Acrew Capital. Along with her, 13 other investors have invested in the developers, including Warner Music Group, Supernode Global, GameTech Ventures and Alumni Ventures.

Unity told about this in a recent report on the financial results for July-September 2022.

At the same time, his annual income decreased by a third.

Gaming companies around the world continue to reduce staff. This time, the Canadian mobile publisher and developer Kabam announced the layoffs.

VK Group reported for the third quarter (ended September 30). In the document, she said that after the sale of MY.GAMES, she stopped allocating the “Games” business segment, but continued to deal with the games themselves – now under the VK Play brand.

This was announced by Maksut Shadaev, head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.