The European Commission has allowed Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $ 68.7 billion. This is the first major regulator to approve the deal.

The Molasses Flood is another game studio where layoffs took place. This is reported in social networks by her former employees.

Soda Den studio and Crytivo publisher could not agree on the game Roots of Pacha, a prehistoric farm simulator in the spirit of Stardew Valley. There were disagreements between them, as a result of which the project disappeared from Steam.

Developer Jason Wilson (also known as Jay Gunn) has announced the sale of his archive with concept art, script sketches and notes on gameplay solutions of the original MediEvil. He hopes that this will help him solve his financial problems.

WolfEye Studios, which game designer Raphael Colantonio founded after leaving Arkane, has started working on its second game. The studio claims that it will become more ambitious than Weird West, thanks to the just concluded partnership with the Galaxy Interactive venture fund.

In Italy, Apple is unhappy. The Antimonopoly Authority of the country believes that the privacy policy in force on iOS may violate the competition law.

FuturLab studio reported that the number of players in PowerWash Simulator exceeded 7 million people. How the audience of the project was distributed across platforms is not specified.

Portal dev.by looked at how much Lithuanian employees of the company with Belarusian roots were paid in March. The most generous was Melsoft, which took the first place in the top at the end of the month. The average salary of its employees was €13,575.

Epic Games has officially released Unreal Engine 5.2, an updated version of the engine, which was shown in March at GDC 2023.

Riot Games is preparing to change the leadership. At the end of 2023, Nicolo Laurent will leave the post of CEO, which he held for six years.

The British regulator has imposed another ban on Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Now companies cannot invest in each other without obtaining the written consent of the department.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at Airicore, a data analyst at Dankolab and an event coordinator at WN Media Group.

On February 11, the Western press began publishing the first reviews of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Judging by their reviews, the game was a success. She set a record on OpenCritic, receiving the highest rating from the point of view of critics in the history of the platform.

A series of free webinars in English AI Talks today at 17.00 in Istanbul starts the second issue of K. His guests will be Anatoly Strutinsky, an AI enthusiast, and Tom Pigott, CEO of the startup Ludo.ai (generates game concepts).

The first quarter of 2023 turned out to be a success for Unity. The company reported that its revenue increased by 56% compared to last year and crossed the $500 million milestone.

Keywords Studios Group of companies announced the purchase of Hardsuit Labs studio, which was responsible for the development of Vampire until 2021: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2. She did not disclose the amount of the transaction.

Ubisoft continues to make cuts. This time, she fired 60 customer service specialists who worked in offices in the US and the UK.

Video games have become one of the tools for involving Russian teenagers in criminal activity, says Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Alexander Grebenkin. He shared his opinion in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.