On March 6, the Appodeal growth platform published an interactive report on the dynamics of eCPM over the past year. We tell you what you can learn from it.

In three weeks since the release, the cumulative audience of the retrofuturistic shooter Atomic Heart has surpassed the mark of 5 million players.

Adobe is preparing to launch its own family of neural networks capable of generating images. According to the company, it uses only licensed art and copyrighted content for AI training.

The Canadian court will not consider charges against Electronic Arts (EA) concerning violations of the gambling law. He did not agree that the company uses gambling practices by adding loot boxes to games.

Roblox announced that on March 20, beta versions of two AI tools that simplify game development became available to users of its platform.

The sanctions have seriously affected the Russian gaming market. According to the results of last year, its volume decreased by 80%, the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) estimated.

The founders of the Mundfish studio expect that in the future their team will be able to make games in 24-hour mode. Robert Bagratuni and Evgenia Sedova shared such plans in an interview with Durov’s Code.

Subway Surfers runner has crossed another billion-dollar milestone. The Danish company SYBO reported that in the 11 years since its release, its game has been downloaded over 4 billion times.

CD PROJEKT Group of Companies announced the cancellation of expenses incurred while working on Project Sirius, a multiplayer game in the Witcher universe. They amounted to 42.9 million zlotys or $9.76 million.

The National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) has issued licenses for the release of 27 foreign games in the country. The list of approved games included, among others, Merge Mansion from Metacore and Spring Valley from Playkot.

Metaverse projects continue to attract investment. German Flying Sheep Studios has announced that it has received $ 1.2 million to create the game Star Life. The money was given by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection of Germany.

In September last year, Lars Gustavsson, the creative director of the Battlefield series, left DICE. But he didn’t give up game development. A few months later, he opened his studio called TTK Games, according to insider Tom Henderson.

The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division in an interview with the Financial Times said that the corporation could open an Xbox store for mobile devices as early as next year. This will happen if regulators approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Dream Games has announced the launch of its first overseas office. It is located in London.

The publisher Digital Bros told about this in the report for the half-year, which ended on December 31, 2022.

Kepler Interactive called the releases of Scorn and Sifu very successful, Ubisoft closed its division in Italy, and Team17 announced layoffs — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

On March 15, Unity published a study on the main trends in game development for the beginning of 2023. We wrote briefly about the report last week. In the current publication — in detail about him in Russian.

The Atomic Heart shooter has become the second most popular novelty this spring in M.Video-Eldorado. However, it sold four times worse than Hogwarts Legacy.

For the second time in a month, the European regulator has pushed back the date by which it should make a final decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.