Microsoft is not going to finally leave the Russian market. Microsoft Rus, a legal entity of a corporation in Russia, reported in its accounting report that at least at the end of March 2023, Microsoft did not consider the possibility of liquidating a business in the country.

There is a replenishment in the Epic Games portfolio. The company includes the Brazilian studio AQUIRIS, known for the Horizon Chase series of racing games. This is the first studio bought by Epic Games in Latin America.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has criticized video games. He said that they can make children more aggressive and provoke violence.

The Liftoff platform has released a detailed report on the situation on the casual mobile games market in the first quarter of 2023. We briefly share the main thing from it.

The company DON’T NOD shared a preliminary report for 2022. It received record operating revenue and became profitable again.

The Sims 4 audience has exceeded 70 million people, according to Maxis. This made the game the most popular part of the series.

San Francisco-based startup Synthesis AI has shown a tool capable of generating realistic 3D models of people based on a text description. It’s called Synthesis Labs.

The lawyers of REVERA shared their experience in supporting venture transactions over the past year, highlighting common points for all of them.

The authorities of El Salvador have approved a bill that will allow companies engaged in technological innovations to avoid paying a number of taxes for 15 years. The bill covers, in particular, developers of applications and neural networks.

The profit of Mortal Kombat 11 could exceed $ 500 million. This figure was indicated on the LinkedIn page by Matt Welsh, who worked as a global brand manager for Warner Bros. Entertainment from March 2019 to February 2022.

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.