Perhaps Steam has restrictions related to the use of artificial intelligence. Recently, a redditor under the nickname potterharry97 complained that his game was not allowed on the site due to the presence of AI-generated assets.

The Russian retail received “Introduction to the design of gaming systems. A step—by-step guide to creating balanced games,” Bombora Publishing house reports. This is a book about development for beginners (it contains the very basics of work). We share an excerpt.

It will become more difficult for Chinese children to circumvent the time limit for games. China’s Central Commission for Cyberspace Affairs has announced that it will closely monitor services for the sale and rental of gaming accounts.

The Outriders shooter was released in April 2021, but its revenue still cannot cover the development and marketing costs. Studio People Can Fly in the report for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2023, reported that it still does not receive royalties from Square Enix.

A new round of layoffs took place at Ludia Studio, known for mobile games in the Jurassic World universe. Former studio employees write about this on LinkedIn.

In the Devil May Cry: Peak of Combat slasher, 666,666 people have previously registered. It was possible to achieve this figure in a little over four months: Capcom opened pre-registration on February 16.

The authors of Call of Duty are expanding their presence in Europe. Infinity Ward Studio has announced that it has a team in Barcelona.

In January 2023, it became known that some of the developers who worked on the game were missing from the credits of The Callisto Protocol. Six months later, the Striking Distance studio updated the titles and added missed specialists to them.

Gamers around the world have bought Final Fantasy XVI over 3 million times, the Famitsu portal reports, citing a Square Enix press release.

Hi-Rez Studios, which has Paladins, SMITE and Rogue Company games in its portfolio, has changed its business structure. She announced that she had divided her studios between three divisions.

Analytical company data.ai published a list with mobile publishers in whose applications users spent the most money in 2022. Tencent became the highest earning publisher for the sixth time in a row.

On June 27, Unity unveiled three AI-related projects: the AI Hub marketplace, the Unity Muse suite of AI tools, and a cross-platform solution that integrates AI into the runtime environment, Unity Sentis. Against this background, its shares rose by 15.38%.

In 2021, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), due to the COVID-19 pandemic, held an E3 gaming exhibition in an online format. As the IGN portal found out, at least $6 million was spent on organizing the event.

The analytical company Circana (formerly NPD Group) has released a report on the American gaming market for May 2023. Against the background of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, revenue increased for all segments.

Unity has begun to form its own AI ecosystem. She announced the launch of three projects related to artificial intelligence.

More developers have started using the Yandex advertising network. The company reported that by June 2023, the number of mobile applications on the network had grown to 10 thousand. A year ago, there were half as many of them.

Microsoft Corporation cut production of Xbox Series consoles on release to save chips for the Xbox Cloud Gaming cloud service. This is stated in a letter from the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer), a copy of which is in court documents.

In court documents published as part of the hearings on the lawsuit of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Microsoft, the cost of buying the Ninja Theory studio was disclosed. It amounted to $117 million.

At the end of 2019, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, suggested that Microsoft increase annual spending on the purchase of games for Game Pass to $2-3 billion. In his opinion, this would help to take Sony out of the game subscription business, since in a few years there would be a shortage of valuable content on the market.