The next WN Connect will be held in Beijing this Wednesday. It will bring together representatives of NetEase, KingSoft, Xiaomi, Unity, Lilith Games and other companies operating in China.

MY.GAMES is strengthening its position in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). She announced the opening of a regional hub in the UAE capital.

InvestGame analysts reported that in the first quarter of 2023, the volume of public offerings, private investments and completed mergers and acquisitions in the gaming market decreased significantly. They amounted to $2.1 billion against $15.4 billion in January-March 2022.

VK Group has announced the start of accepting applications for testing a domestic game engine. She also revealed the name of the engine — Nau Engine.

The Canadian studio Brace Yourself Games, which developed Crypt of the NecroDancer, has halved its staff. There are about 20 employees left in it.

In China, the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard was approved, the developer studio Gothic and ELEX received investments from the German government, the revenue of Hogwarts Legacy exceeded $ 1.3 billion, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

While Mundfish is preparing to release the first story DLC for Atomic Heart, we talked to the studio about the design of the game and its individual elements. In an interview with App2Top, the developers talked about creating a combat system, gloves and bosses, and also discussed controversial issues related to the open world.

On May 19, KRAFTON announced that the Indian version of PUBG Mobile will soon be available again in India. As it turned out, there were some nuances.

In the three years since its release, Ghost Of Tsushima has sold a million copies in Japan. Jim Ryan told about this in an interview with Famitsu.

Extremists actively use video games to promote their ideology. This conclusion was reached by scientists from New York University, who interviewed 1,128 gamers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and South Korea.

Ubisoft has announced that the audience of the free-play fighting game Brawlhalla has reached 100 million people. It took the project eight years to overcome this milestone.

The Indian authorities have allowed KRAFTON to re—launch Battlegrounds Mobile India, the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, in the country. The game has been banned for almost a year.

The Ministry of Finance of Vietnam has proposed to include online games in the list of goods that fall under the luxury tax. In his opinion, this will greatly increase revenues to the state budget.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: the head of the UA direction at Dankolab, a product analyst at Playkot and a designer at WN Media Group.

Last year, the analytical company Newzoo revised the forecast for the video game market for 2022 several times, gradually reducing expectations from its global revenue. In reality, everything turned out to be worse than in the most pessimistic version.

The revenue of the multiplayer survival ARK: Survival Evolved has exceeded $ 1.3 billion since the release of the game in 2015. Studio Wildcard CEO Doug Kennedy wrote about this on his LinkedIn page.

New Fortune Magazine has published a list of the richest businessmen from China in 2023. Three lines in it were taken by the founders of miHoYo, whose total fortune the publication estimated at ¥114.75 billion ($ 16.32 billion).

FunPlus publisher and KingsGroup studio are facing a new class action lawsuit due to fake sales in the game. This time, gamers are unhappy with the discount situation in King of Avalon.

In the financial report, Take-Two, among other things, shared updated figures on game sales.