ChinaJoy, Asia’s largest gaming exhibition, and WN Media Group, an international organizer of events for video game developers and publishers, have announced a partnership.

In the first half of 2023, the demand for gaming specialists in Russia decreased by more than a third compared to the same period last year.

A new box office hit has appeared on the Chinese mobile market. The game is called Justice Mobile (逆水寒). According to the analytical platform Diandian, its iOS version earned $23.3 million in the first five days of sales.

According to Vedomosti with reference to the XYZ School survey, most of the players from Russia use pirated versions of video games.

In the Blizzard studio, despite record revenues (it received a net $ 1 billion for the first time in the quarter), cuts began. 50 people who specialized in esports lost their places.

A small revolution in the digital PC distribution market. Blizzard will start posting its game titles on the Valve platform.

In just four months of sales, the Resident Evil 4 remake made it into the top 15 best-selling Capcom games.

SberMarketing, Check Index and Rambler &Co conducted a survey of 90 thousand users from Russia regarding video games. We share some figures from it.

In total, in April-June 2023, the company earned $2.2 billion. Of this amount, $520 million is revenue from games, and the remaining $1.6 billion is from micropayments and subscriptions. The company’s net profit for the quarter totaled $587 million.

The reason is the capture of Deputy Minister of Digital Development Maxim Parshin red—handed when handing over a bribe of 3.5 million rubles last Friday.

On July 18, the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard was supposed to be completed. However, the merger was decided to be postponed in light of negotiations with British regulators. Now the papers must be signed no later than October 18.

Yandex Games has published “Igrotok” in mobile stores without an official announcement. This is a game library of hyper-casual games, whose principle of operation resembles working with content on TikTok. The key difference is that the swipe does not launch a new video, but a preview of the game or the game itself (depends on the platform).

A little more analytics about the European market. But this time from another company — from GSD. She estimated that over the past month, 15.5 million games from major publishers were sold in Europe in digital and physical retail.

The Nintendo game outperformed Hogwarts Legacy in sales, despite a later release limited to just one platform.

News about the absence of news. On July 18, the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard from Microsoft was supposed to be completed. But now it is unclear what the parties have come to (although everyone understands everything).

The author of the popular YouTube channel GameRiot (1.84 million subscribers) on his Twitter page announced the possible budget of Grand Theft Auto 6. According to him, the game will cost Take-Two $ 2 billion.

It became known about the non-standard practice on the part of 505 Games. The publisher has signed an agreement with One More Level studio, under the terms of which it will allocate € 0.59 million for the release of updates and additions to the yet-to-be-released Ghostrunner 2 premium game.

Alex Seropian, who launched Bungie Studios in 1991, together with colleagues from other gaming companies, formed a new studio. It’s called Look North World.

Steam has published top sales for the period from July 11 to July 18. According to him, Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios earned the most money in a week as a premium game. This is without taking into account free games and devices, so it is in third place in sales – after Counter—Strike and Steam Deck.