Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, published a program column on the state of the studio on the company’s blog. In it, he spoke about the challenges that the Finnish company faces today, and also shared its financial results for the past year.

The Chinese giant NetEase has announced that the upcoming MMO Justice Online Mobile will feature a gaming analogue of ChatGPT. The neural network will allow you to have meaningful conversations with NPCs and influence the actions of characters.

Ghost Ship Games studio has announced that it will start publishing third-party games. She will work with small teams, helping them with financing and marketing.

The initial sales of Hogwarts Legacy in Europe turned out to be higher than the vast majority of projects released after October 2018. In particular, the game in the Harry Potter universe surpassed Elden Ring in sales for the debut week by 56%.

On February 6, Playgendary started liquidation of the Minsk Playgendary Development. This is what the dev portal writes about.by with reference to data from the Unified State Register of Belarus.

Mike Rose from the indie publishing house No More Robots condemned the people who have been actively criticizing the Game Pass lately. He stated that he does not consider a Microsoft subscription to be something bad for developers.

Swedish holding Embracer Group has published a report for the third fiscal quarter (October-December 2022). Many of the company’s key indicators have grown significantly.

VK has started work on the creation of a Russian open source game engine. It allocates one billion rubles for its development. This was announced during a press conference with the participation of Maksut Shadaev and Vladimir Kiriyenko. App2Top has prepared an edited* transcript of the event.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF), controlled by the Saudi authorities, continues to invest in Nintendo. According to the Trading View portal, the fund increased its stake in the Japanese publisher to 7.08%.

Ilkka Paananen, CEO of Supercell, summed up the results of 2022 for his company. He spoke about the drop in revenue and said that developing hit games “has become more difficult than we ever thought.”

The authors of Apex Legends believe in the successful future of the game, senior design director of the project Evan Nikolich told IGN. According to him, Respawn hopes that Apex Legends will be able to repeat the fate of Counter-Strike and remain interesting to users for many years to come.

Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a test neural network called MarioGPT. With its help, anyone can create levels for Super Mario Bros.

The European antitrust regulator agreed at Microsoft‘s request to hold a closed hearing on the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. It will take place on February 21.

Berkshire Hathaway, owned by investor Warren Buffett, got rid of part of Activision Blizzard shares at the end of last year. This became known from the company’s report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Composer Mick Gordon, best known for the soundtracks to the latest DOOM games, decided to support Ukraine. He announced that he had given the money earned on Atomic Heart to the Red Cross.

Denis Kachura, the arbitration manager of Game Insight in Russia, suspected the company of deliberate bankruptcy of the Russian “daughter”. He has already appealed to the prosecutor’s office.

On February 10, the creators of Genshin Impact opened registration for their new game called Honkai: Star Rail. Since then, 2.37 million people have managed to pre-register in the project.

Recently, in a report for the British regulator, Microsoft admitted that the appearance of games as part of the Game Pass reduces their direct sales. On February 14, the corporation gave a comment to the Eurogamer portal, in which it stated that despite everything, its subscription remains an attractive option for developers.

On February 8-9, the first WN Conference of this year was held in the capital of Serbia. We share its results in figures and graphs.