In winter, the digital video game store VK Play held a distribution of the premium game “Love, Money, Rock and Roll”. The results of the promotion exceeded the company’s forecasts. Olga Gordeeva, the head of the store, told about the downloads the event led to in her note.

The auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released a report on the US gaming market. According to her estimates, in 2022 the market growth rate was the slowest in at least four years.

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is concerned that Apple device owners can only download apps from the App Store. She believes that this situation needs to be corrected.

WeChat’s WeChat product manager Li Qing said that more than 400 million people play mini-games on the Chinese platform every month. He revealed this figure during a speech at the WeChat Open Class conference.

The demo version of Lies of P has been downloaded a million times, Focus Entertainment has opened a studio to develop an “ambitious multiplayer game service”, Valve has abandoned a 10-year agreement with Microsoft – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The Russian “daughter” of Game Insight is going to put up for auction the trademarks operating in the country. The sale as part of the bankruptcy of the company will be carried out by Denis Kachura, its arbitration manager.

Dmitry Peskov, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on digital and technological development, compared video games with drugs. He stated that some Western developers are deliberately trying to cause addiction in order to earn more.

Gwen Foster, who is engaged in business development at indie studios SUPERHOT Team, Well Told Entertainment and Sad Owl Studios, decided to help colleagues from other studios. She posted a sample presentation online for pitching the game.

What approach to work on art is practiced in the R&D department of Belka Games, – said Anastasia Morzina, the company’s lead artist.

Extra-curricular esports classes and esports clubs may appear in Malaysian schools. The head of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the country, Hannah Yeoh, intends to discuss the launch of the initiative with representatives of the Ministry of Education.

On June 15, Epic Games announced the release of the MetaHuman Animator tool for the MetaHuman platform. It allows you to capture facial expressions of people through the iPhone camera and create realistic facial animation.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a global report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

On June 2, Diablo Immortal celebrated its first birthday. Analysts data.ai we found out that in the year since its release, the game earned $525 million only on mobile devices.

Organized this year by the Association of Professionals of the Operating and Game Development Industry (A PRIORI) together with the Institute for Internet Development (IRI) and the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives (FRII) is discussing the possibility of creating an acceleration program for game dev. This was stated during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by A PRIORI CEO Alexander Mikheev. Here is an edited version of his speech.

On the second day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a round table was held on the topic “Russian Game development and trends in its development“. One of its speakers was Maxim Parshin, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. We quote his speech in its entirety.

The developer of the game “Smuta” at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum compared the game dev located in Russia with the Nizhny Novgorod militia, which defeated the Polish army near Moscow in 1612.

The French studio Million Victories has successfully conducted a Series A funding round. She received $6.5 million from investors, some of which she is going to spend on transferring the Million Lords mobile strategy to three-dimensional space.

Gaming companies from Russia should attract private investment, and not ask for support from the state. This was stated by the Deputy head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Maxim Parshin in the framework of the SPIEF.

Russian gamers have become more likely to buy games and gaming products, according to the Yumopeu service. This spring, the number of such purchases on platforms accepting payment through YUKASSA increased 2.1 times compared to last year.