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.

Epic Games Store (EGS) General Manager Steve Allison discussed the situation with blockchain games in the store with Axios journalists. In his opinion, it is too early to judge the success of such projects in EGS. The first conclusions can be made at the beginning of next year.

Activision has announced that it is not going to close Call of Duty: Mobile in the near future. Rumors about the imminent termination of support for the game appeared after the publication of Microsoft‘s response to the British antitrust regulator.

In March last year, Russian IT companies were allowed to temporarily not pay income tax. This benefit should cease to be valid on December 31, 2024, but recently the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposed to make it indefinite.

What is a Google Ads agent account, — Mikhail Karpach, head of the advertising department of the YeezyPay payment service, told in his column.

On March 10, it became known about the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest US bank specializing in high-risk investments in technology startups (it accounted for half of all American venture financing). Many businesses have lost money. Including gaming.