VK Group reported for the fourth quarter and the whole of 2022. In the financial report, she, among other things, told about the indicators of playgrounds.

The shelf of studios founded by former Blizzard Entertainment employees has arrived. The former president of the company, J. Allen Brack, together with Jennifer Oneal and John Donham, announced the launch of the Magic Soup Games studio.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to know more about the 10-year agreements that Microsoft has concluded with Nintendo, NVIDIA and other companies.

The Roblox platform summed up the results of February. She said that her revenue jumped by 20-22% year-on-year to $214-217 million.

Startup Phygital+ has launched a library of neural networks. That’s what it’s called — AI Library. The service contains information about more than 1000 tools of “generative artificial intelligence“.

Last year, independent Kazakh studios made games more actively than indie developers in any other countries. The number of new games from indie studios in Kazakhstan increased by 115.7% compared to 2021. This was reported by Unity in a recent report on the gaming industry.

IO Interactive continues to expand and launches its fourth studio. She will help with the development of the games Project 007, Project Fantasy and Hitman.

Cyprus indie studio Apella Games has won proceedings with Apple for the rights to the trademark “Apella Games”. The conflict lasted almost two years.

It will now be easier for foreign IT specialists to get a job in Russia. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Google has announced that in the coming months, residents of Japan and European countries will be able to test the beta PC version of the Google Play Games service. It allows you to run Android games on Windows computers.

Gas Giant Games is a new studio opened by former Blizzard Entertainment employees. One of its founders was Jay Wilson, who at one time led the work on Diablo III.

ZA/UM studio has announced that the creator of the Disco Elysium world, Robert Kurvitz, and the former art director of the game, Alexander Rostov, have dropped their claims against her. They withdrew claims of unfair dismissal due to lack of evidence.

Supercell seems to have started disabling access to Clash of Clans for Russian and Belarusian gamers. The network complains that the game no longer opens without a VPN.

Downloads of the mobile version of Vampire Survivors for three months after the release on smartphones reached 5.1 million, according to the portal MobileGamer.biz with a link to the AppMagic data. However, every day the game generates fewer downloads.

Hogwarts Legacy continues to sell well in the UK. GfK estimates that in the first five weeks since the game’s release, British gamers have bought it more times than Elden Ring in a year.

1C Game Studios is actually developing a series of games based on the series of books “Tales of Old Russia”. She announced that she is working on a franchise together with the artist Roman Papsuev.

Square Enix and Luminous Productions could spend over $100 million on the development of Forspoken. This figure was revealed in her LinkedIn profile by the screenwriter of the game Allison Rymer (Allison Rymer).

At the end of last year, AST Publishing house published a book by indie developer Slava Gris, “Make a video game alone and Don’t Go Crazy.” We liked the book so much that we decided to write about it, and at the same time share one of its chapters on our pages.

Epic Games does not guarantee that the sellers of assets in the Unreal Engine Marketplace have rights to the distributed content. The company announced this in response to a request from the developers of Bleak Faith: Forsaken, who were recently accused of borrowing animations from Elden Ring.