On July 29, 2021, Panic opened pre-orders for the portable hurdy-gurdy console Playdate. The company said it has since sold 53,142 copies of the device.

Roblox reported for March 2023. Although the month was successful for the company, its investors were not very satisfied with the results.

Associate professor from University College London Joost Rietveld sent a letter to the British regulator about the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. In it, the scientist explained why cloud gaming is not a separate market.

For the second time in a month, Capcom broke the record for the value of shares. After the announcement of Monster Hunter Now, the company’s shares rose by 9%.

In February 2022, an American court sent Gary Bowser, a hacker from Team Xecuter, who sold tools for hacking Nintendo consoles, to prison. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but released earlier for good behavior.

The release of the multiplayer space shooter Boundary was a success for the Studio Surgical Scalpels team. The studio, together with the publisher Skystone Games, reported that in less than a day the sales of the game exceeded 100 thousand copies.

At the end of March, after five years of development, the indie game Gripper was launched. We talked to Kirill Zolovkin, the head of the project and the founder of the Heart Core studio, about its marketing, the road to release and current challenges.

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to create his own analogue of ChatGPT. In an interview with Fox News, he said that he would support the development of the “truth-seeking” chatbot TruthGPT.

The antimonopoly regulator of another country announced that it does not object to the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. South Africa concluded that the deal would not lead to a significant weakening of competition in the gaming market.

Polish mobile game developer Ten Square Games has announced that it will lay off a quarter of the company’s employees. This is about 120 people.

Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has announced his retirement from the studio. He has worked at Media Molecule for over 17 years.

The proceedings between Nexon and Ironmace studio over the Dark and Darker code and assets have reached court. On April 14, a South Korean publisher filed a lawsuit in the Washington District Court, accusing the developers of copyright infringement.

There is one less person in the Halo team. The Windows Central portal writes that the creative director of the series Frank O’Connor (Frank O’Connor) no longer works at Microsoft.

The Japanese company SEGA has made an offer to buy the creators of Angry Birds for € 706 million ($ 775.8 million). Earlier, the media reported that she was ready to pay $1 billion for Rovio.

Astrum Entertainment and MY.GAMES have entered into an agreement regarding the Warface shooter. Under its terms, Astrum Entertainment got the rights and brand of the game, and MY.GAMES got its code.

Morning surprise from The Wall Street Journal. The publication reports that SEGA is close to acquiring Angry Birds developers.

German InnoGames, known primarily for Forge of Empires, has announced a restructuring. In the near future, the company will lay off 75 employees.

VK has published a report on the most popular RuStore games among Russians. Judging by it, the most active in the country are downloading action games, puzzles and simulators.