Publisher Curve Games and Swedish studio Neon Giant have announced that The Ascent has been acquired a million times. The companies thanked the gamers and promised to continue releasing new content for the game.

Microsoft Corporation is trying to convince the British public with the help of advertisements in newspapers of the benefits of buying Activision Blizzard for $ 68.7 billion. Journalist Tom Warren noticed that the other day she bought strips for advertising in two major publications: the Financial Times and the Daily Mail.

For the first time since its release in November 2020, the PS5 surpassed the Nintendo Switch in monthly sales in the Japanese market and became the best-selling console in February. According to Famitsu, over 366.9 thousand PS5S were sold in Japan last month — 457% more than a year ago.

Sony has shared with the British regulator concerns about the future of the Call of Duty series on its consoles if a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard takes place. In particular, she suggested that the corporation will start releasing games with bugs and poor performance on the PlayStation.

On February 21, the European Commission held a hearing on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. It is reported that during it, the head of PlayStation said that “he does not want to conclude a new agreement on Call of Duty, but just wants to block the deal.”

The police searched the office of the Ironmace studio and seized materials on the PvPvE-action Dark and Darker, according to Korean media. She was looking for confirmation that the game was created using code and assets stolen from Nexon.

The British Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) has released a large-scale report in which it spoke about the situation in the country’s gaming market last year. We have chosen the main thing.

Hogwarts Legacy has shown the sixth largest start in the European market, according to GSD. In terms of sales in the debut month, it was second only to the games of the FIFA series.

XYZ School noticed that in 2023, women became more interested in learning in the field of games. She estimated that in January-February, their activity on the pages of online school courses about video games increased by 34% compared to the beginning of 2022.

The number of users in the games of the Free Fire developer studio continues to decline. In the latest financial report, Sea, the parent company of Garena, reported that in the period from October to December 2022, the total active audience of the games was 485.5 million people. This is 25.8% less than at the same time a year ago.

WN Talents In Games and App2Top are launching a new salary survey. We invite you to take part in it: answer where you are working from now and how much you earn.

The Polish studio Bloober Team is expanding. The creators of The Medium have announced that they will launch their first office in the USA in the second half of 2023. They will also soon have a unit in Warsaw.

Sensor Tower analytical company has announced new successes of the Korean Lineage series of games. According to her, to date, users of mobile versions alone have spent over $7 billion.

On February 23, Rovio removed the original Angry Birds from Google Play, and renamed it Red’s First Flight in the App Store. In a comment to Axios, a Rovio representative said that the company does not mind re—placing the game in the Google store in the future – or removing it from the App Store.

Microsoft is confident that the British regulator has greatly overestimated the number of Call of Duty fans who will buy Xbox consoles if the corporation makes the franchise exclusive. To prove their point, Microsoft commissioned a study from the independent company YouGov.

Analysts from Gamma Data have published a monthly report on the state of the Chinese gaming market. According to them, in January 2023, the market began to recover, but the situation on it is still far from ideal.

The games of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy series and many other projects of Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics studios have become available to users from Russia again on Steam.

IT companies founded by people from Belarus have firmly established themselves in the capital of Lithuania. Last year, they rented 15,000 square meters of office space — half of the space that all IT companies in Vilnius rented.

American Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal are concerned that Meta* is rumored to want to expand the audience of Horizon Worlds and let teenagers into its metaverse. They turned to Mark Zuckerberg and called for the plans to be immediately curtailed.