Time magazine published a list of the hundred most influential people in 2023. It includes Hidetaka Miyazaki, head of FromSoftware and creator of Dark Souls with Elden Ring.

The purchase of Activision Blizzard could cost Microsoft more than $68.7 billion. According to Bloomberg, according to some investors, Activision Blizzard has every reason to demand a large amount from the corporation if the deal cannot be closed on time.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. Wanted this week: delivery director at Playkot, chief accountant at WN Media Group and sound designer at ExoGenesis.

On April 12, NVIDIA released RTX Remix, a modding platform that allows you to create HD remasters of games. The company immediately shared the source code on GitHub.

The Game Association has published a report on the situation on the German gaming market in 2022. According to him, the year was a record. For the first time in history, the market revenue exceeded the milestone of €9.87 billion.

CrazyLabs has announced that it has entered the top 3 mobile game publishers. Her games have been downloaded over 6 billion times in total.

The Library of Congress of the United States, whose collection contains films, sound recordings and many other significant materials for the country, in addition to rare books, has added 25 musical compositions to its register. One of them was the theme from Super Mario Bros.

On April 14, the War Robots team action game will be nine years old. In honor of the birthday, MY.GAMES company shared updated figures for the game.

On March 30, Shenzhen hosted WN Connect, a chamber event dedicated to the Chinese gaming industry. Its guests were 150 people from 119 companies, including representatives of Tencent, NetEase, Huawei, Roblox and iDreamSky. We tell you about the results of the event.

The French antitrust regulator may in the coming weeks send Apple a so—called statement of objections – a list of concerns that the privacy policy on iOS has caused it. This is reported by Axios sources.

Richard Garfield, creator of the iconic collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, has announced the official launch of a new game studio — Popularium. Along with him, the founders included veterans of Xbox, Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast.

Milestone has announced that it has sold over 2 million copies of Hot Wheels Unleashed since September 30, 2021. At the same time, the total audience of the racing game exceeded 8 million people.

Chinese gaming companies have started hiring artists less. In a comment to the Rest of the World portal, recruiter Leo Li said that over the past year the number of new vacancies for artists has decreased by 70%.

Almost half of the world’s population plays video games, according to the analytical company DFC Intelligence. According to her estimates, now the global audience of video games is 3.7 billion people.

At the end of March, the court rejected the lawsuit of gamers from the United States who tried to prevent Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. Three weeks later, they again decided to oppose the deal and filed a new version of the lawsuit.

Tokyo police arrested a 41-year-old Konami employee. He is suspected of attempted murder of his former boss: on April 11, he attacked the head of one of the company’s departments and hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher.

Chinese giant NetEase will sue Taiwanese musician Jay Chou. He accused the company of unfair competition and using his image to promote the MMORPG Tian Xia III.

Sandsoft Games, a mobile publisher headquartered in Saudi Arabia, has announced global ambitions. He expects that in five years he will be able to compete with Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Tencent and NetEase.

Media Molecule Studio announced that from September 1, 2023, it will stop releasing updates for Dreams, a designer whose users can create their own games.