Morning surprise from The Wall Street Journal. The publication reports that SEGA is close to acquiring Angry Birds developers.

German InnoGames, known primarily for Forge of Empires, has announced a restructuring. In the near future, the company will lay off 75 employees.

VK has published a report on the most popular RuStore games among Russians. Judging by it, the most active in the country are downloading action games, puzzles and simulators.

One of the largest shareholders of Playtika got rid of 300 thousand shares of the Israeli company. According to a statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he sold them for $3.52 million.

On April 12, the “Association of Professionals of the Operating and Game Development Industry” (A PRIORI) was established in Russia. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the data of the SPARK-Interfax database.

At the beginning of April, VK Play told about the games for which films gamers from Russia would like to play. Now, in a new study, she, along with the direction of “Games” in Skillbox, found out what gamers think about movie adaptations of games.

Yandex has launched a new section in the developer console on its gaming platform. It is called “Metrics”. The page displays the indicators of the games themselves and their advertising, and you can also see trend lines there.

Another gaming company has decided to finally leave Russia. Nintendo, in a comment to the Eurogamer portal, announced that it was engaged in the liquidation of the Russian division.

Time magazine published a list of the hundred most influential people in 2023. It includes Hidetaka Miyazaki, head of FromSoftware and creator of Dark Souls with Elden Ring.

The purchase of Activision Blizzard could cost Microsoft more than $68.7 billion. According to Bloomberg, according to some investors, Activision Blizzard has every reason to demand a large amount from the corporation if the deal cannot be closed on time.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. Wanted this week: delivery director at Playkot, chief accountant at WN Media Group and sound designer at ExoGenesis.

On April 12, NVIDIA released RTX Remix, a modding platform that allows you to create HD remasters of games. The company immediately shared the source code on GitHub.

The Game Association has published a report on the situation on the German gaming market in 2022. According to him, the year was a record. For the first time in history, the market revenue exceeded the milestone of €9.87 billion.

CrazyLabs has announced that it has entered the top 3 mobile game publishers. Her games have been downloaded over 6 billion times in total.

The Library of Congress of the United States, whose collection contains films, sound recordings and many other significant materials for the country, in addition to rare books, has added 25 musical compositions to its register. One of them was the theme from Super Mario Bros.

On April 14, the War Robots team action game will be nine years old. In honor of the birthday, MY.GAMES company shared updated figures for the game.

On March 30, Shenzhen hosted WN Connect, a chamber event dedicated to the Chinese gaming industry. Its guests were 150 people from 119 companies, including representatives of Tencent, NetEase, Huawei, Roblox and iDreamSky. We tell you about the results of the event.

The French antitrust regulator may in the coming weeks send Apple a so—called statement of objections – a list of concerns that the privacy policy on iOS has caused it. This is reported by Axios sources.

Richard Garfield, creator of the iconic collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, has announced the official launch of a new game studio — Popularium. Along with him, the founders included veterans of Xbox, Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast.