Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File spoke with Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios, about the current state of the gaming industry. We chose the main thing from the interview.

On April 4, the global release of Buckshot Roulette took place. This is a horror game from an Estonian solo developer, which immediately resembles the narrative of Inscryption and the creations of Yoko Taro.

Andrey Voronkov, Deputy Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), said this in an interview with the newspaper Vzglyad. According to him, in total, Iran provided the developers of the mentioned games with more than 1.5 billion rubles.

Microsoft has created a game preservation team, Apple has allowed retro game emulators in the App Store, sales of Call of Duty: Vanguard may have exceeded 30 million copies – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The document is called the Mobile Ad Creative Index. Its focus is on the average cost of advertising for various types of creatives. One of the verticals considered by the authors of the work is mobile games.

Within the Russian media space, the release of the Russian game “Smuta” was noticeable. Only on the Twitch platform, the game was simultaneously streamed to 206 channels, which were watched by a little more than 75 thousand people.

Stunlock Studios has announced that vampire Survival V Rising has surpassed the milestone of 4 million copies in just under two years of early access: the game was released on May 17, 2022.

Roblox has gained a reputation as a company that exploits children and teenagers by aggressively making money from them. The head of Roblox Studio Stefano Corazza does not agree with such accusations. In his opinion, the platform does more good than harm.

The question of how a developer can reserve the right to the game in case of receiving an investment is answered in their column by Irina Gushchina and Vadim Kocheshev, lawyers at Semenov&Pevzner.

A major round of layoffs also took place at the American studio Singularity 6. If you believe the reports of her former employees on LinkedIn, several dozen people are out of work.

At the end of March, SEGA announced the sale of Relic Entertainment, and a week later, the studio underwent massive layoffs. According to producer Robyn Smale, Relic Entertainment has fired a total of 41 people.

Tameem Antoniades no longer works at Ninja Theory Studio, which he and two colleagues founded in 2000.

On April 4, the game “Smuta” was released. This is the most expensive entertainment game project created at the expense of Russian government agencies.

Nikolay Katselapov, one of the founders of Wargaming, has opened his own investment fund. It’s called Mika Games. He will invest in mobile startups.

With the support of the AppMagic service, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in an interview with GamesIndustry discussed the recently completed restructuring of the Embracer Group and the general condition of the Swedish holding company. We have collected the main theses.

Ziva Dynamics is a company that deals with technologies of complex modeling and deformation in real time. Her tools are used to create realistic 3D models of people, animals and other creatures. The other day, Unity, the company that owns Ziva Dynamics, decided to abandon their support.

Ross Scott, who created the machine “Freeman’s Mind” about Gordon Freeman from Half-Life, wants publishers to stop “killing” games. He launched a public project called Stop Killing Games.

Cubic Games has announced the launch of the desktop version of the Pixel Gun 3D free-to-play shooter. Before the release, she had been collecting vishlists for more than six months. I have collected almost half a million.