Riot Games and Activision Blizzard have started paying compensation to former and current employees who have suffered discrimination and harassment in the workplace. This is reported by Axios, who studied the court documents.

Supercell has made another investment. She became an investor in the Finnish studio Phantom Gamelabs, founded in 2022 by former developers from Zynga, Rovio, Kopla Games and a number of other gaming companies.

From April 14 to April 19, Ironmace studio conducted the fifth alpha test of Dark and Darker, which could be accessed by downloading the action build via Torrent. The other day, the developers shared testing statistics.

Voodoo is pleased with the results of its hybrid casual games. The company said that now it has 10 successful projects in its portfolio, each of which consistently brings in $ 20-100 million a year.

Niantic commented on the data of the AppMagic service, according to which in April the monthly revenue of Pokémon Go fell to $34.7 million — the lowest level in five years. According to the company, this information is incorrect.

Mike Acton has announced his departure from Unity. He was responsible for the development of DOTS, a stack of information—oriented technologies.

Eduard Kumykov, founder and CEO of GOOO.GAMES, shared his experience of developing and launching a casual game on Russian web platforms with App2Top.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: senior game designer at Playkot, game designer of hyper-casual games at Azur Games and sound designer at ExoGenesis.

Last week, Nightdive Studios, working on a remake of System Shock, posted art on Twitter with SHODAN, an artificial intelligence from the game. The studio boasted that it created this image with the help of Midjourney. After that, she immediately came under a barrage of criticism.

Microsoft has announced an open testing of the Bing search engine chatbot. Now everyone can try the tool without having to sign up for a waiting list — just log in with a Microsoft account.

The Swedish company G5 Entertainment has published a report for January-March 2023. She revealed financial indicators, and also spoke about the use of AI.

The report of the British regulator found data on the situation in the cloud gaming market in 2021. According to them, that year Microsoft earned less than $50 million on its xCloud service, which is no more than 10% of the revenue of the entire market.

The authors of GameMaker have announced plans to integrate a neural network into the engine. It will help developers with writing code, creating placeholders, restoring images, and other tasks.

In the gaming industry, the work of screenwriters is underestimated, says David Gaider, the author of the Dragon Age and Baldur’s Gate scripts. Even BioWare, which achieved success thanks to well-written characters and stories, eventually began to consider expensive scripts a burden.

Tomorrow, May 4, WN Media Group will launch a series of free webinars in English AI Talks. Every Thursday, experts in the field of artificial intelligence and neural networks will share insiders and the latest news in the field.

The developers of the tropical adventure Tchia announced that the audience of their project has reached the million mark. It took the game a month and a half to do this.

The creators of Street Fighter 6 see great potential in the game. In an interview with Famitsu, the president of Capcom said that the company expects to sell at least 10 million copies of the fighting game for all time.

Pokémon Go revenue is declining. According to MobileGamer with reference to AppMagic data, in April the Niantic AR-game earned $34.7 million. This is a monthly minimum since February 2018.

On May 3, new rules for the placement of trailers began to take effect on Steam. Now developers can add a maximum of two videos before screenshots, all the others will be displayed at the end of the gallery.