The first quarter of fiscal 2022 was not very smooth for PlayStation. According to a recent report, the operating profit of Sony‘s gaming division decreased to $397 million (-37%), and sales — to $4.54 billion (-2%).

From September 1, new rules for the design of game banners will take effect on Steam. For example, developers will no longer be allowed to write about discounts, other games and critics’ ratings on images, and they will also not be able to use quotes from reviews.

Krafton is facing another ban in India. Yesterday, her game Battlegrounds Mobile India — the Indian version of PUBG Mobile — was removed from the local Google Play and Apple Store.

Users of Bungie games have noticed that developers have been communicating with their audience less often lately. The other day, the studio’s community manager confirmed that Bungie really decided to reconsider its approach to interacting with players – this is how it tries to protect employees.

This War of Mine and Gra szyfrów are the first games that have officially entered the school curriculum of extracurricular reading in Poland. However, the local government is not going to be limited only to them.

The mobile version of Diablo Immortal took eight weeks to overcome the milestone of $100 million in revenue. According to Sensor Tower analysts, among IP—based games, only Pokémon GO was able to earn such an amount faster at one time – it took her only two weeks.

A new game studio has appeared in Poland — Dark Passenger. It was opened by former developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.

At the beginning of the week, Space Ape Games studio announced that Boom Beach: Frontlines will be released as part of a softlonch in 19 more countries. There were a lot of people who wanted to play. In just two days, a million people have pre-registered in the game.

The new record of the game was reported by Sensor Tower analysts, who took into account only the spending of Google Play and App Store users. According to their calculations, over half of the amount was brought by gamers from the USA — $595.5 million (59.4%). The second and third places went to residents of Germany (5.8%) and the UK (4.5%).

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) intends to prevent Meta* from buying Within Unlimited, a developer of a fitness game for Supernatural virtual reality. The agency sued, saying that such a deal would lead to the creation of a monopoly.

Meta* has released a fresh financial report, in which, among other things, it told about the losses of Reality Labs. According to the corporation, the losses of the XR division for the first half of 2022 amounted to $5.76 billion — 35.4% more than a year ago.

Rockstar is not what it used to be. Journalist Jason Schreier talked to employees who assure that the company has revised its work processes and has become more progressive.

The marketing agency Consumer Acquisition has released an infographic dedicated to mobile games that are made using the Unity engine. We have selected a few facts from it.

Indie developers will start receiving free PS5 devkits. Sony hopes that thanks to the new program, it will be able to improve the publishing process and lower the entry threshold on the PlayStation.

On June 26, the open beta of the MultiVersus fighting game started. By the evening, the peak online games on Steam exceeded 144.4 thousand people (according to SteamDB), which is significantly more than the rest of the Warner Bros. projects.

This conclusion was reached by Rune Skovbo Johansen, who analyzed the statistics of the GMTK Game Jam game development marathon.

Wizards of the Coast, which owns the rights to the Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons franchises, has launched a sixth game development studio. It is called Skeleton Key and is located in Austin.

Serious problems with the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are reported by journalist Jason Schreier with reference to their own sources.

Sydney-based Immutable, which deals with blockchain games, is making cuts. The company itself did not publicly report this, but its former game designer James Wakeham complained about the dismissals.