Recruiting agency Talents In Games summed up the results of the open voting for the award “Game Dev HR Awards 2022“. The game studios Playkot and MYTONA turned out to be the winners by a large margin in terms of votes cast.

Cryptozima will not be a big problem for the blockchain games market, according to the authors of a recent study on ResearchAndMarkets. They predict that the market turnover will grow from $4.6 billion in 2022 to $65.7 billion in 2027.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top continues to publish materials from the “Results” series, in which it polls top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones) about how the year has passed for their company and the market. Next up is a response from Pavel Ryakkonen, founder and CEO of WN Media Group.

The other day, a discussion broke out on Twitter about not the best quality of modern AAA games. Some of the participants were not against making an exception for the Elden Ring, calling its design “passable”, but not Jonathan Blow. According to the creator of The Witness, there is no design as such in this game.

The Steam team has compiled lists with the most successful games for 2022. Elden Ring, Stray and V Rising were noted among the box office novelties.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Ilya Eremeev, co—founder and General partner The Games Fund (TGF).

Chinese state-owned newspapers Economic Daily and Guangming Daily selected the top 30 companies in the outgoing year whose activities are related to the cultural sphere. Among them was miHoYo.

According to Kommersant, they are going to found a company in Russia that will develop a mobile operating system based on Android. The founders will be VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom with the support of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Chile’s antitrust regulator has concluded that the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will not harm competition in the gaming market.

On December 29, the Russian Watt Studio announced the suspension of the creation of the game TRAINS: Through electric storms. The developers said that they could not agree with the Internet Development Institute (IRI) and receive money from the promised grant for 100 million rubles. Soon after, the IRI made an explanation of its position.

We continue the series of interviews in which we summarize the results of the year together with experts and top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones). This time we talked with Marina Lopatina, Director of business development of the recruiting agency WN Talents In Games.

In October, the Internet Development Institute (IRI) allocated a grant of 100 million rubles to the Russian Watt Studio to create the game TRAINS: Through electric storms. In an interview with The House of the Dev portal, the developers admitted that cooperation with Iran did not go according to plan.

Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that in 2023 it will change the terms of the OGL — an open license for creators of Dungeons & Dragons content.

On December 21, the chamber industrial event WN Connect was held in Shenzhen. Its guests were 140 representatives of the Chinese game developer from 112 companies, including ByteDance, Tencent, Roblox, OPPO, Huawei and Round Ventures.

We continue the series of interviews “Results”, in which top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones) tell what the last 12 months have been like for them. This time Dmitry Kuratnik, co-founder and CEO of TapTap studio, shares his results.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants to give Russian companies the opportunity to pay for licenses for software whose developers have left the country. According to Kommersant, the ministry may allow organizations to transfer money for such software to special accounts on demand of the copyright holder.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Ivan Fedyanin, co—founder of the Ducky publishing house.

Nintendo told which eShop games were in the greatest demand among Japanese residents in 2022. The company did not disclose the revenue of the games and the number of copies sold

In 2020, Electronic Arts (EA) introduced an initiative to combat toxicity in games — Positive Play. The idea was successful. According to Chris Bruzzo, executive director of gaming experience, gamers are now complaining about the behavior of other users for a total of only 1% of matches.