None of the employees were injured, but some of the furniture in the office burned down. According to Japanese media, the fire broke out on the third floor of the Nintendo headquarters at 13:00 local time. Eight fire trucks responded to the call, but the employees were able to extinguish everything before their arrival.

Korean publisher NCSOFT has published a report for April-June 2022. During this period, the company’s sales increased by 17%, reaching $ 480 million. And its net profit immediately increased by 26% to $90.5 million.

Yesterday, Half-Life fans united in a flash mob to break the record for peak online and at the same time show that the community of the title is still active. They agreed to simultaneously launch the “vanilla” version of the first Half-Life and play for at least half an hour.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation shared his opinion during a visit to the Yakutsk IT Park.

South Korean mobile publisher Netmarble has prepared a report for the second quarter of 2022. Let’s see how this period went.

Although Microsoft told about this last week in a report for the Brazilian regulator, the media only paid attention to the detail now.

Now more than 27 organizations are included in the register. According to Kommersant, in the last six months alone, the Russian budget could have lost up to 9 billion rubles due to benefits allocated to non-core companies.

Riot Games helped launch an educational technology center for children, Steam allowed adding free games and DLC to the library without automatic downloading, and scientists found that good managers come out of good players in Civilization — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The office is located in Kuala Lumpur, and its management has already enlisted the support of the Malaysian government.

RuStore looked at how different categories of mobile applications are treated in Russian regions. In particular, he gave statistics on games.

The Finnish Remedy did not have the best second quarter. The company reported that it closed it with a loss of € 2.4 million, although last year at the same time it was able to make a profit of €1.5 million.

Cult of the Lamb was released yesterday — a “bagel” about an possessed sheep who is trying to found a demonic cult. According to SteamDB, 61,780 Steam users played it at the same time on the premiere day.

The innovation was noticed by blogger Bryant Chappel. He managed to launch games through Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming by simply typing the title name into the Google search engine.

Epic Games and Electronic Arts have fulfilled the requirements of the Indonesian authorities by registering their stores in the database of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the country.

A new day is a new financial report. South Korean Krafton shared the results of the first half of 2022, reporting record net profit and success of PUBG.

Formally, Hiroyuki Kobayashi left the Japanese company on March 31, but until today he has not publicly announced this.

On August 11, the global release of the Tower of Fantasy MMORPG, resembling the sci-fi version of Genshin Impact, took place. After that, the title immediately broke into the top 10 most downloaded games in the App Store in 90 countries of the world, and in the USA, Japan, South Korea, and even took first place.

Electronic Arts (EA) has repeatedly faced criticism of loot boxes, however, the company does not intend to abandon their sale. In a statement to Eurogamer, she said that she does not want to deprive players of the opportunity to spend money if they want to.

As part of the deal, Unity will work together with CACI International to develop human-machine interfaces. The company’s management noted that the deal is of a strategic nature — Unity hopes that in the future its engine will be used more often for projects of the US government.