China’s NetEase has announced the launch of another foreign studio — anchorPoint Studios. Her team includes developers Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Control and The Division.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko is dissatisfied with the way Russian characters are portrayed in Western video games. In his opinion, the developers are trying to form a negative image of Russia.

Tencent wants to strengthen itself outside of China and protect its business from the growing control of the Chinese authorities. According to the Financial Times, citing sources, the holding intends to actively buy shares in foreign studios. First of all, in European countries.

The British regulator blocked the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency concluded that it harms competition in the cloud gaming market.

Recently, the Kazakh authorities announced that from July 1, local organizations will be able to officially switch to a four-day working week. Gaming companies around the world are also actively changing the format to a “four-day”. Skillsearch recruitment agency found out from the developers what they think about such a work schedule.

Microsoft expects that UK and EU regulators will approve the takeover of Activision Blizzard, according to sources of the New York Post newspaper. After that, she will be able to negotiate with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which previously sued the corporation.

Earlier this week, the media reported that NetEase decided to sue Blizzard Entertainment over the closure of games in China and filed a lawsuit for $43.5 million. Now it turned out that the author of the claim is not NetEase, but a disgruntled Chinese gamer.

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.

Microsoft reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on March 31. According to a number of indicators, it became a record for the gaming division.

Last night, Deep Silver publishing house announced that in its very first weekend, the zombie extermination shooter Dead Island 2 reached the mark of one million copies sold. And this is without a release on Steam!

Danish studio Sybo has set a course to expand the Subway Surfers franchise. The other day there was a worldwide release of a new game under this brand. The novelty is called Subway Surfers Blast. This is a clone of Toon Blast.

VK announced that the VK Play platform has turned one year old (although we remember that it is built on the basis of My.Games Store, which, in turn, is the heiress of the “Games” platform Mail.Ru “). In honor of this event, the holding shared statistics.

Against the background of numerous news about the termination of support for internal development tools, the latest message from Guerrilla Games (Horizon and Killzone series) stands out. According to him, this studio does not intend to abandon its engine.

The Serbian Gaming Association (SGA) has published a report on the Serbian gaming industry by the end of 2022. We briefly share the main thing from it.

Vera Velichko, CEO of OWL studio, spoke about the tasks in which neural networks can help CG artists today, and in which – you should not expect much from them.

Game developers continue to form unions. This time, a group of 144 employees of the American division of SEGA announced plans to form an association.

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the court’s decision in the case of Epic Games and Apple, issued in September 2021. He refused to satisfy the Fortnite developer 9 out of 10 charges and did not consider Apple a monopolist.

The conflict between NetEase and Blizzard Entertainment continues to develop. According to Sina Technology, the Chinese company filed a lawsuit against Blizzard and demanded to pay her ¥300 million or about $ 43.5 million.

Zombie action game Dead Island 2 is in demand among gamers from the UK. According to the analytical firm GfK, it showed the third largest number of physical copies sold in the country in 2023.