It became known about the dissolution of the Fridays game studio, which has been based in Novosibirsk since its foundation in 2007.

Hazelight Studios boasted that It Takes Two took the bar at 10 million copies sold. It took the game a little less than two years to do this.

The former technical director of Oculus* tweeted a thread about PS VR2, which is due to be released this month. John Carmack said that despite the excellent technical characteristics, Sony‘s VR headset is unlikely to be very successful.

China’s NetEase continues to strengthen its presence abroad. She launched a studio called Spliced, which will develop an innovative project that “changes the idea of what a game is.”

The Japanese company Square Enix reported for the last three fiscal quarters (ended December 31, 2022). According to their results, both revenue and profit fell.

Despite the rapid growth in popularity of AI services that generate visual content at the request of users, from a legal point of view, their work (as well as the use of graphics created by them) raises many questions. I-Legal lawyers answered the most relevant of them in a special material for App2Top.

The second news about layoffs today. Now they have been announced by the developer of 3ds Max and Maya.

Analysts from Niko Partners predict rapid growth in the gaming market of the MENA-3 region (Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt). It is estimated that in five years its revenue will increase by 56% at once.

Velan Studios has announced the imminent closure of the multiplayer action game Knockout City. On February 28, the ability to make in-game purchases will be removed from it, and on June 6, public servers will stop working.

Ubisoft may be preparing to close the Polish branch after 15 years of operation in the country. This is reported by Marcin Kosman, CEO of the better gaming agency. gaming agency.

Korean publisher NCSOFT has decided to conduct a global business reorganization. As part of it, the company will cut a fifth of the employees of the division that operates Lineage, Blade & Soul and its other games in Western countries.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a 2D/3D animator at Lesta Games and a VFX artist at ExoGenesis.

The Chinese antimonopoly regulator asked the opinion of local developers about the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation. He did not publicly publish the answers, but, according to media reports, the companies interviewed did not object to the deal.

Chris Wanstrath, one of the authors of GitHub, announced the launch of his own game publishing house. Null Games will work with independent developers, helping them with financing, marketing, porting and other things.

The developers of Dwarf Fortress have published a fresh report on the state of the game. They said that in January Dwarf Fortress brought them $7.23 million — 462 times more than in December and 44 times more than in the whole of 2022.

On January 31, James Gunn and Peter Safran spoke in more detail about their plans to create a shared DC universe. In particular, they stated that they want to use the same actors in films, TV series, comics and games. Jake Solomon, creative director of XCOM and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, has already spoken out against this approach.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) failed to block a deal between Meta* and Within Unlimited. The District Court of California allowed the company to buy the developers of the Supernatural VR game, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

Sony has published another financial report today. In it, the company disclosed the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2022.

Ambitions to create a metaverse are expensive for Meta*. In the latest financial report, the company reported that the losses of the Reality Labs division for 2022 amounted to $13.717 billion, which is 34.5% more than a year ago.