NetEase‘s gaming division is actively growing. The company announced the launch of a new foreign studio — PinCool.

By using a neural network in conjunction with their own extension, the team at Skywaylab Studio was able to reduce their creatives’ production time from 20 to 2 days. Right now, the studio is focused on preparations for releasing its own tool for creating 2D animations to fit its new pipeline. Aleksey Emelyanov, one of Skywaylab’s founders, told us how that’s going to work.

NVIDIA has introduced a new set of AI—based tools – NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine for Games. It will help developers create more lively non-player characters.

The media reported that Sony suspended work on the multiplayer The Last of Us, Rayark studio was accused of mass dismissal of artists and replacing them with neural networks, sales of The Outlast Trials exceeded 500 thousand copies — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

French publisher Voodoo continues to change its business strategy. In an interview with MobileGamer, vice president of the company Alvaro Duarte said that now Voodoo will choose games for publication much more carefully.

Exactly one month has passed since the release of Honkai: Star Rail. We decided to look at the situation with the mobile version of the project and turned to the data of the AppMagic analytical service.

The Japanese The Pokémon Company has updated statistics in the section dedicated to the Pokémon franchise. In it, the company indicated that as of March 31, 2023, over 480 million copies of Pokemon games were delivered to stores.

NetEase has published a financial report for the first quarter of 2023. She said that the gaming direction generated most of the company’s revenue.

Kabam has conducted a new round of layoffs. This time, the Canadian company has reduced 12% of the staff as part of the restructuring.

MY.GAMES company has announced an expansion. She has an office in Armenia.

Swedish gaming holding Enad Global 7 (EG7) announced the imminent closure of its subsidiary studio Antimatter Games. It will stop working in the summer of 2023.

Last year, Russian game developers had difficulties with access to foreign software and a shortage of domestic analogues. The Gaming Association A PRIORI decided to deal with the problem.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a middle-level narrative designer at Belka Games, an accountant at WN Media Group and a leading UA manager at Dankolab.

The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) believes that in 2023 the revenue of the Russian gaming market will begin to grow again. Maria Saikina, the chief analyst of the association, shared this forecast in an interview with TASS.

The critics didn’t like the stealth action The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. It took the last two lines in the list of the lowest rated games of 2023 according to Metacritic.

The humanitarian organization UNICEF wants to increase the number of female game developers. Together with GameLab, the video game development and research laboratory at the Kazakh-British Technical University, she prepared a free course on video games.

Bombora Publishing House has sent to print the Russian translation of “Level Up! A guide to creating cool video games.” Published in the West in 2010, the work is now considered one of the main desktop books on game design. Its author is the American developer Scott Rogers, who worked on the Maximo dilogy, the first God of War and Darksiders, as well as many other titles. The translation was prepared by the writer Alexandra…

Astrum Entertainment will start monetizing streams. Kommersant noticed that in early May she registered a special service, which she called AdvertDA.

Videos related to video games are very popular in TikTok. Over the past year, they have been viewed over 3 trillion times.