343 Industries has one less employee. David Ellis, who held the position of senior game designer of Halo Infinite, announced his departure from the studio.

Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle a lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit concerned the violation of the privacy of children in the Xbox ecosystem.

During the newly opened WWDC 2023, the announcement of a new gadget from Apple took place. The device resembles ski goggles, is controlled by eye movement, gestures and voice commands.

Playkot 2D artist Tatiana Mironova has detailed how the studio implemented image-generating tools into their pipeline to create UI elements for Spring Valley. Here is what the team learned during this process and what are the clear advantages and pitfalls of training your own models.

Geoff Keighley, the organizer of Summer Game Fest, does not agree that his festival was partly the reason for the cancellation of the E3 exhibition. He believes that E3 would not have taken place this year, even if Summer Game Fest did not exist.

On the eve of the WWDC 2023 conference, Apple‘s stock price rose to a historic high, Bloomberg reports. According to the publication, this is partly due to rumors about the upcoming announcement of the XR headset.

The simulator of the border guard Contraband Police from the Polish studio Crazy Rocks has overcome a new frontier. Its sales in three months amounted to 350 thousand copies.

Capcom has sold over a million copies of Street Fighter 6 in three days since the release of the fighting game. This was announced on the official Twitter account of the game.

At the end of May, Sony announced that its gaming division is going to work more actively with cloud services. Kenichiro Yoshida, the head of the company, told the Financial Times in an interview that, despite such plans, PlayStation still considers cloud technologies “very complex”.

According to media reports, Microsoft is considering the option of Activision Blizzard leaving the British market, Square Enix is allegedly concerned about the small number of Final Fantasy XVI pre-orders, owners of Russian and Belarusian accounts in Battle.net they can no longer receive gifts on the platform, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Olga Voronina, Head of the Ravenage Business Development Department, told about the process of searching for games in publishing houses engaged in launching PC projects.

On May 24, the third Chinese WN Connect was held in the capital of the Celestial Empire. This time, the guests of the event were such companies as NetEase, Perfect World, Lilith Games, FunPlus, Cocos, yodo1 and many others. We tell you about the results of the event.

The New Zealand government has introduced a tax break for local game studios. It will reimburse them 20% of the costs incurred during the development of games.

On the night of June 1-2, Blizzard released Diablo IV for early access. TwitchTracker estimates that 941,488 people on Twitch watched the launch of the game at the same time.

On June 2, the release of Street Fighter 6 took place. The game immediately set a record, beating all the fighting games online on Steam.

Layoffs continue in the gaming industry. According to Kotaku Australia, Electronic Arts (EA) is going to cut two-thirds of the employees of the Australian Firemonkeys Studios.

The recent announcement of Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered for the Evercade portable console caused discontent among players. They noticed that the images in the advertisement were created by neural networks, and criticized the publisher of the remaster for disrespecting the project. Blaze Entertainment has already apologized for the incident.

Artificial intelligence is one of the most discussed topics in recent months. Bloomberg Intelligence estimated that against the background of such interest, the generative AI market will grow more than 32 times in ten years.

Studio BonusXP, known for the games Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3: The Game, has begun the liquidation process.