Stability AI, the company that developed the neural network for generating Stable Diffusion images, has released the alpha of the StableLM language model. It can be used to generate both text and code.

In the USA, the number of age gamers continues to increase. According to an AARP study, in 2022, 45% of Americans aged 50 and older played video games at least once a month. Four years ago it was 44%, and eight years ago it was 38%.

Last February, PUBG developers announced that they were going to create their own NFT metaverse in partnership with Naver Z. A year later, it became known that its development had already cost companies 48 billion won, or about $ 36.8 million.

On April 19, Meta* conducted a new round of layoffs, according to the Game Developer portal. Among others, employees of the XR division of Reality Labs, including developers from the game studios Downpour Interactive and Ready at Dawn, were cut.

Mikkel Weider will no longer head Nordisk Games, the gaming division of the Danish film company Nordisk Film. He decided to leave the post of CEO and try himself in something new.

Microsoft is not going to finally leave the Russian market. Microsoft Rus, a legal entity of a corporation in Russia, reported in its accounting report that at least at the end of March 2023, Microsoft did not consider the possibility of liquidating a business in the country.

There is a replenishment in the Epic Games portfolio. The company includes the Brazilian studio AQUIRIS, known for the Horizon Chase series of racing games. This is the first studio bought by Epic Games in Latin America.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has criticized video games. He said that they can make children more aggressive and provoke violence.

The Liftoff platform has released a detailed report on the situation on the casual mobile games market in the first quarter of 2023. We briefly share the main thing from it.

The company DON’T NOD shared a preliminary report for 2022. It received record operating revenue and became profitable again.

The Sims 4 audience has exceeded 70 million people, according to Maxis. This made the game the most popular part of the series.

San Francisco-based startup Synthesis AI has shown a tool capable of generating realistic 3D models of people based on a text description. It’s called Synthesis Labs.

The lawyers of REVERA shared their experience in supporting venture transactions over the past year, highlighting common points for all of them.

The authorities of El Salvador have approved a bill that will allow companies engaged in technological innovations to avoid paying a number of taxes for 15 years. The bill covers, in particular, developers of applications and neural networks.

The profit of Mortal Kombat 11 could exceed $ 500 million. This figure was indicated on the LinkedIn page by Matt Welsh, who worked as a global brand manager for Warner Bros. Entertainment from March 2019 to February 2022.

On July 29, 2021, Panic opened pre-orders for the portable hurdy-gurdy console Playdate. The company said it has since sold 53,142 copies of the device.

Roblox reported for March 2023. Although the month was successful for the company, its investors were not very satisfied with the results.

Associate professor from University College London Joost Rietveld sent a letter to the British regulator about the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. In it, the scientist explained why cloud gaming is not a separate market.

For the second time in a month, Capcom broke the record for the value of shares. After the announcement of Monster Hunter Now, the company’s shares rose by 9%.