More than 100 employees of Amazon‘s gaming division have been cut. This happened two weeks after Amazon announced the layoff of 9 thousand people across the company.

Based on the AppMagic database, App2Top editors have prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games in March.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates disagrees with the experts who proposed to stop training neural networks smarter than GPT-4 for six months. In an interview with Reuters, he said that instead of introducing a moratorium, it is worth identifying problem areas and dealing with them.

The Chinese company NetEase, apparently, lost the plagiarism trial at Riot Games. On April 10, she will shut down the servers of the Hyper Front game, which was previously accused of copying VALORANT.

Xbox Product Manager Mark Skwarski revealed the statistics of the Game Pass in his LinkedIn profile. Among other things, he told how many people use a PC subscription, and how many use Xbox consoles.

Activision Blizzard settled the conflict with the US Department of Justice, which was dissatisfied with the “salary ceiling” for esports players from the Overwatch and Call of Duty leagues.

Publisher Devolver Digital has made a new purchase. The company announced that it included the American studio Doinksoft, known for the metroidvaniya Gato Roboto.

The Saudi government wants to turn the country into a “world entertainment center” by 2030. It intends to invest $38 billion in the development of the local gaming industry through the Public Investment Fund and its subsidiary Savvy Gaming Group.

On March 16, Newzoo published a 58-page report on the state of affairs in the PC and console games market. We have already covered it briefly. It’s time for a detailed analysis. Prepare a mug with more tea, there will be a lot of graphs and numbers.

Autobattler with elements of the urban simulator Cookie Run: Kingdom earns great. The mobile game was released in January 2021 and by February 2023 it had earned over $400 million, according to Sensor Tower analysts.

Last November, Nintendo announced that it was going to launch a subsidiary of Nintendo Systems together with mobile developer DeNA. Five months later, they actually opened a joint venture.

The release of the Resident Evil 4 remake spurred the growth of Capcom shares. Analyst Serkan Toto (Serkan Toto) drew attention to the fact that now the company’s shares are selling more expensive than ever.

Landfall Games decided to celebrate April 1 by publishing on Steam a free selection with playable prototypes of projects that the studio has been working on since 2016.

Ilya Ulyanov, director of work with RuStore partners, in a comment to TASS reported that more than 4 thousand publishers have placed applications in the store’s catalog. There are foreign companies among them.

Another Japanese gaming company has started paying employees more. This time Konami announced the salary increase.

Electronic Arts (EA) liquidated a legal entity in Russia, according to media reports, Epic Games switched to economy mode, sales of Darkest Dungeon II exceeded 300 thousand copies, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

At the end of March, it became known that Playkot received a license to release its Spring Valley game in China. About how much money was spent on paperwork, how long it took to wait for the review, what edits needed to be made to the build and much more — in our interview with Evgenia Artemova, bizdev manager of the company.

On March 28, the WN CEO Summit took place. This time it was held in the capital of Great Britain. It was attended by 100 high-ranking employees of gaming and IT companies from 15 countries of the world.

A publisher with Latvian roots tinyBuild shared a report for 2022. Below — briefly about the main thing from it.