Embracer Group reported for the last fiscal year ended March 31. She reported an increase in profits and sales, as well as the successes of Dead Island 2 and Metro Exodus.

During the presentation to investors, Sony also revealed sales of PC versions of two games: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and The Last of Us Part I.

Sony held a presentation for investors, where it talked about the business of the company’s gaming division. We have chosen the main thing.

At the Paradox Deep Dive presentation dedicated to the company’s business processes, Paradox Interactive shared statistics on its games over the past ten years. She told which projects managed to become profitable, and which ones did not.

Computer clubs in Russia attract more and more people. According to Vedomosti, with reference to the Langame study, over the period from 2019 to 2022, the number of monthly visitors to clubs doubled to 2.5 million people.

Adobe has added Photoshop integration with Firefly, a family of neural networks that can generate art. Now the editor can “finish” the background according to the text description, as well as change, add and delete objects in images.

Enthusiast Jason Scott has published digitized audio recordings of speeches by representatives of gaming companies at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), held in 1999. The Telegram channel Gamedev suffering drew attention to this.

Deck Nine Games is another game studio that has seen a wave of cuts. According to former narrative designer Elizabeth Ballou, among others, the heads of some teams left the studio. They decided to quit voluntarily so that their subordinates would not lose their jobs.

Japanese police arrested a 52-year-old resident of Nagoya, who posted gameplay videos on YouTube. He was detained on charges of copyright infringement and publication of spoilers.

In the USA, a lawsuit was filed against Nintendo. The company was accused of unfair and immoral use of gacha mechanics in the mobile game Mario Kart Tour.

Nexters suggests calling creatives, in which funny mini-games are shown instead of core mechanics, an advertisement for non-basic gameplay. What is the reason for this, — Anton Yakovlev, CMO of the company, told in his column.

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.