On March 1, Godot developers announced the full release of the fourth version of their open source engine. Work on it went on for four years.

An American court ordered Sony to share information with Microsoft about the work of the gaming division — Microsoft needs this data for proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The Financial Times newspaper published a list of thousands of European companies whose revenue grew the most in the period from 2018 to 2021. The rating was headed by the developer of mobile games Tripledot Studios.

At the end of March, Hustle Castle will be six years old. In honor of the upcoming anniversary, MY.GAMES announced that the number of downloads of the project exceeded 80 million.

For the second time, the European antimonopoly regulator has moved the date by which it should issue a verdict on the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. Now it’s April 25th.

Kaspersky Lab has released a report on cyber attacks against children using video games. The company said that over the past year it recorded more than 7 million such cyber attacks — 57% more than in 2021.

Administrators of the official Atomic Heart community in VK asked subscribers where they purchased the shooter. Almost a third of the survey participants replied that they bought it in VK Play.

The Atomic Heart soundtrack is very popular on the Yandex Music platform. The phonk remix of Igor Sklyar’s song “Komarovo” in the processing of the musician DVRST hit the first place of the chart.

The difficult times for gaming companies continue. And they affect even very young studios. Today it became known about the cuts in the Dragon Machines team. She lost a little more than a quarter of the staff.

The hype around AI has attracted the attention of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency published an appeal to tech companies, in which it stressed that AI is an ambiguous term, and it should not be abused.

The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division gave an interview to the Xbox On channel. During the conversation, Phil Spencer touched upon, among other things, the topic of artificial intelligence and video games.

The developers of the SnowRunner off-road driving simulator have announced a new achievement of the project. Its audience has reached 10 million users. This figure includes both Game Pass subscribers and those who purchased the game from other services.

The Israeli holding company Playtika will not develop new games until it becomes economically feasible. This was announced by Playtika President Craig Abrahams during the presentation of the annual financial report.

Kotaku sources report that on February 28, Electronic Arts (EA) fired all testers who worked in the Baton Rouge office – more than 200 people. They were mainly engaged in Apex Legends.

In September 2022, Japanese game designer Toshimichi Mori left Arc System Works after 19 years of work, promising to continue developing games. He intends to keep his promise. Together with Toshinori Aoki, the former vice president of Marvelous, Mori opened a studio called Studio Flare.

Comparitech came to this conclusion. In a recent study, she looked at whether apps and games for children comply with the so—called “Children’s code” – a set of rules in the UK prohibiting online services from tracking the personal data of minors.

Ampere Analysis has prepared an overview of the console market for 2022. Among other things, she said that by December 31, the total sales of the PS5 reached 30 million devices, while the Xbox Series consoles sold much worse — 18.5 million devices.

On February 25, Valve updated the Steam rules regarding keys for games. Expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the GameDiscoverCo newsletter spoke in detail about the changes. We have chosen the main thing.

In July 2015, Rovio released the second part of Angry Birds. Since that moment, the revenue of the mobile game from in-app purchases has exceeded $ 500 million, writes MobileGamer.biz with a link to the AppMagic data.