Electronic Arts has decided to strengthen the Need For Speed development team. Now the Codemasters division from Cheshire has officially joined Criterion Games.

On May 11, Google held a conference for developers I/O 2022, at which it presented, among other things, new features for its mobile store.

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at how things were with mobile games in the first quarter of 2022. She found out that gamers began to gradually reduce costs — the numbers are declining for the second quarter in a row.

This was announced by the publisher of Marvelous. It took into account worldwide sales of both physical editions of the game and digital copies. How the circulation was distributed is not specified. But it is known that by last June, 127.9 thousand cartridges with Rune Factory 5 for the Nintendo Switch were sold in Japan.

The volume of blockchain transactions is growing rapidly. CB Insights analysts estimate that in the first three months of 2022, companies working with this technology received 461 investments totaling $9.2 billion – a new record.

Tim Berners-Lee shared his opinion in an interview with Bloomberg. He clarified that the metaverse and virtual reality in general are unlikely to replace the Internet in its modern form, but they will become part of its future.

Swedish Starbreeze reported for the first quarter of 2022. It didn’t go well. All key financial indicators have fallen compared to last year.

ResearchAndMarkets.com I have prepared a new report. This time, analysts shared their forecast for the metaverse technology market.

Naoki Yoshida told about this in an interview with Weekly Bunshun. He admitted that he was not very interested in the idea of a metaverse. Although some players compare the metaverse with his MMORPG, the developer does not see much in common between them.

Kwalee continues to expand. The company has announced the launch of a fourth office outside the UK. It will be located in Almada, Portugal. Previously, Kwalee opened branches in India and China.

The achievement became known from the official Twitter account of the game. It is not specified whether this figure includes copies that users took away during the free distribution in the Epic Games Store.

What happened in Ukraine seriously affected the eCPM indicator (effective price per thousand impressions) in mobile applications in Russia and Ukraine. This is stated in a study published by Appodeal at the end of last week.

Omdia interviewed over 3,700 gamers from the USA, UK and Germany about their attitude to cloud gaming services. Analysts found out that 56% of respondents are unfamiliar with cloud games. However, a year and a half ago there were 86% of such respondents.

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.

Officially, the Workers of Gamechuck D.O.O union started working in Gamechuck back on April 29, but the media only paid attention to it now.

InvestGame analysts have published a study on investments, public offerings and M&A transactions in the gaming market for the first three months of 2022. They found out that already now the volume of transactions was able to surpass the results for the whole of 2021.

Capcom has managed to set sales revenue records for the fifth year in a row. In a recent report for the fiscal year, she reported that she earned $848.7 million on sales. This is 15% more than the total a year earlier.

According to SCMP, concerns arose at the end of April. Then the users of the racing game QQ Speed noticed that some of their data disappeared after the update was released. At the same time, it became known that the support of this and several other titles is now being handled not by Tencent itself, but by its newly created “daughter” Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Limited.

As part of the report for the fiscal year, Bandai Namco announced a new achievement of the Elden Ring. According to the estimates of the Japanese publisher, the game was able to overcome the milestone of 13.4 million by the end of March, i.e., a little more than a month after the release.