Extremists actively use video games to promote their ideology. This conclusion was reached by scientists from New York University, who interviewed 1,128 gamers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and South Korea.

Ubisoft has announced that the audience of the free-play fighting game Brawlhalla has reached 100 million people. It took the project eight years to overcome this milestone.

The Indian authorities have allowed KRAFTON to re—launch Battlegrounds Mobile India, the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, in the country. The game has been banned for almost a year.

The Ministry of Finance of Vietnam has proposed to include online games in the list of goods that fall under the luxury tax. In his opinion, this will greatly increase revenues to the state budget.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: the head of the UA direction at Dankolab, a product analyst at Playkot and a designer at WN Media Group.

Last year, the analytical company Newzoo revised the forecast for the video game market for 2022 several times, gradually reducing expectations from its global revenue. In reality, everything turned out to be worse than in the most pessimistic version.

The revenue of the multiplayer survival ARK: Survival Evolved has exceeded $ 1.3 billion since the release of the game in 2015. Studio Wildcard CEO Doug Kennedy wrote about this on his LinkedIn page.

New Fortune Magazine has published a list of the richest businessmen from China in 2023. Three lines in it were taken by the founders of miHoYo, whose total fortune the publication estimated at ¥114.75 billion ($ 16.32 billion).

FunPlus publisher and KingsGroup studio are facing a new class action lawsuit due to fake sales in the game. This time, gamers are unhappy with the discount situation in King of Avalon.

In the financial report, Take-Two, among other things, shared updated figures on game sales.

Take-Two has published a report for the fiscal year ended March 31. She reported record revenue and announced that she was preparing to release a number of revolutionary games.

Immersion Corporation, a company specializing in feedback systems, filed a lawsuit against Valve. She claims that Steam Deck and Valve Index headsets violated seven of her patents at once.

Nintendo announced that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom took just three days to sell over 10 million copies. This is a series record.

Tencent‘s revenue began to grow significantly again. In the first quarter of 2023, the Chinese company managed to earn $21.8 billion – an 11% increase compared to last year.

Neogames, which positions itself as a hub of the Finnish gaming industry, has published a report on the state of affairs in the local game development over the past two years. We share the main figures and graphs from it.

Konami has decided to sue the Japanese developer and publisher Cygames. The reason for the conflict was the game Uma Musume Pretty Derby about horse girls, in which Cygames allegedly violated patents belonging to the company.

Within the framework of the Turkish session of the WN Conference, which will be held in Istanbul on June 7-8, the results of the WN Dev Contest will be summed up. At the moment, there is a set of applications for participation in it.

On May 16, the Russian mobile app store NashStore turned one year old. In honor of the birthday, the stora team said that 2.7 million people have registered in it to date.

Indie bagel Darkest Dungeon II has sold over 500 thousand copies, according to developers from Red Hook Studios.