The head of the NetEase partnership department, Simon Zhu, wrote on LinkedIn that he spent ten thousand hours in Warcraft, Starcraft and Overwatch and is now “heartbroken” because of the closure of games in China. He also spoke sharply about the people who made the decision:

Blizzard Entertainment‘s agreement with NetEase to publish almost all of the company’s games in China expires next year. Blizzard has already started looking for a new partner, but warned that from January 23, the games will temporarily stop working in the country.

Evgenia Zibareva, Business Development Director of VKontakte, shared the platform’s plans in an interview with Vedomosti.

The Swedish company told about this in a report for April-September 2022.

In September 2022, three people from Epic Games opened their own studio called Noodle Cat Games. Now they have received the first investment, which will go to hiring employees and developing the debut game.

Game designer Dene Carter believes that there is nothing wrong with borrowing the scale of games from other projects. He admitted that he did it himself during the development of Fable.

The studio’s management could not agree with its main shareholder Motorsport Network on where to get funding. This is stated in a report for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

On May 2, Embracer Group announced the purchase of several studios from Square Enix, among which was Eidos Shanghai. Six months after the deal, the company decided to give Shanghai Eidos under the management of its “daughter” — Gearbox Publishing.

The Chinese giant Tencent continues to report a decline in revenue. In the third quarter, its revenue fell by 2% to $19.7 billion. This is $225 million lower than analysts expected.

Two months ago, Rockstar Games was subjected to a hacker attack. Hackers published a lot of data about GTA VI and threatened to merge the source code of GTA V. It seems that now they — or someone else -have decided to carry out this threat.

Valeria Tsygankova, publishing director of the World of Ships, shared the figures in an interview with Kommersant. According to her, about as much game users will spend on the purchase of premium accounts and internal currency.

The money will be used to develop and support the “World of Tanks”, “World of Ships” and Tanks Blitz, launch new games, upgrade infrastructure and hire an additional 400-450 employees.

This was stated by the head of Xbox in the framework of the Decoder podcast. He did not name the approximate period for which Call of Duty may linger on Sony consoles, but noted that it is a bit silly to expect Microsoft to sign a contract with the word “forever”.

The parent company of the authors of Free Fire has published a financial report for the third quarter of 2022. For her gaming division, this period did not go very well.

According to Reuters, citing sources close to the company, the layoffs affect half of Tencent‘s divisions, including gaming.

Multiplying the number of reviews by a certain average value for the market is one of the easiest ways to roughly estimate the sales of a game on Steam. Gaming expert Simon Carless made adjustments to this system and updated the median multipliers for games with different runs.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group has agreed to purchase the Jumpship studio. He publicly announced the deal on the day of the release of Somerville, the company’s debut game.

It surpassed almost all games released in 2022 in terms of physical sales in the UK in its debut week. According to GfK, only FIFA 23 sold better at the start.

The network noticed a Sony patent for a system that can use the blockchain to track the history of in-game objects like skins, objects or characters. The company filed a patent in May 2021, but it has only now appeared in the public domain.