This was stated by the head of the department Maksut Shadaev in an interview with the RBC TV channel. He explained that mostly those IT specialists who “left on emotions” and could not find a job quickly returned.

The developers of another game boasted strong sales. This time, the success was reported by the authors of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, who stated that in two years the sales of their project reached the mark of 3 million copies.

On May 24, Focus Entertainment and Blackbird Interactive released Hardspace: Shipbreaker from early access, a game in which spaceships need to be disassembled into details. Since then, the simulator has managed to sell 500 thousand copies.

The mobile version of Apex Legends was released on May 17. According to AppMagic statistics, its revenue for the first month was $12.4 million, and downloads exceeded 22 million.

Action RPG Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Risen has started to attract the attention of gamers again. According to SteamDB, 6582 Steam users played it at the same time yesterday. The last time an online title crossed this line was six years ago.

On Sunday, the Chinese giant NetEase announced that it will not release Diablo Immortal in China yet. This happened just four days before the release of the game. As a result, the company’s shares crept down on Monday morning.

Gaming experts, together with lawyers, have begun working on a draft law on the regulation of games in Russia, Vedomosti reports, citing two sources. If it is accepted, then Russian developers will be able to count on at least three support measures.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) has revealed how much it is going to invest in video games in 2022, Nintendo has sued the operator of the Russian “Nintendo World”, and the creators of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga reported strong sales, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

What specific rules the game account violated is not reported. It is also unknown how long the lockdown will last.

A year and a half ago, Motorsport Games, which develops racing games under a NASCAR license, successfully entered the stock exchange — it raised $69 million through an IPO with an estimate of $ 510 million. However, now the company faces delisting.

The Australian company Immutable, specializing in Web3, has decided to open another blockchain fund. She announced that within four years she is going to invest $500 million in developers of games for her Immutable X platform.

Android games have a hard time keeping an audience. Pushwoosh has calculated that on average their first-day retention rate is 43%. After a week, it drops to 32.2%, and after a month — to 24.6%.

In a month of early access, the vampire survival V Rising was able to sell 2 million copies. Developers from Stunlock Studios, in an interview with the Eurogamer portal, called this figure “amazing” and said they were proud of the launch of the game.

The ByteDance gaming direction has problems. Bloomberg sources report that TikTok‘s parent company has decided to close one of its studios — 101 Studio. Over a hundred developers are out of work.

The Epic Online Services toolkit has acquired a new feature. The Epic Games team has announced that developers can now add crossplay to PC games. So far, this can only be done for the Epic Games Store and Steam, but later the function will work in other stores.

The Telegram channel GameDev Reports drew attention to the performance of the game. With reference to the data of the AppMagic service, he said that for the two debut weeks, the revenue of the mobile version of Diablo Immortal alone amounted to $ 24.3 million, and downloads — 8.5 million.

Last year, Netflix started adding mobile games to its platform. According to Sensor Tower analysts, at the moment their total downloads have exceeded 13 million.

More than half of the employees of game studios believe that they are underpaid. This is stated in the study of the Federation of trade Unions UNI Global Union, which interviewed specialists from 29 countries.

According to a recent report by Electronic Arts (EA), for the 12 months ending in March 2022, Andrew Wilson received $19.9 million. This is significantly less than a year ago, when his bonus was $39.2 million.