On January 31, the original Final Fantasy VII turned 26 years old. In honor of the anniversary of the game, producer Yoshinori Kitase announced that sales of the project have reached 14.1 million copies.

The story of layoffs in gaming companies continues. Next up is the American publisher of Tilting Point. He announced a restructuring in which he will part with about 60 employees.

The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a 50-page report on competition in the mobile store market. In it, the agency called Apple and Google “gatekeepers” whose policies harm both users and developers.

NVIDIA may become one of the witnesses in the trial between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft. This is reported by journalist Stephen Totilo, who studied court documents.

Capcom has updated the “platinum list” with games. It includes projects whose sales exceed a million copies.

Journalist Jason Schreier from Bloomberg found out how the situation at 343 Industries changed after Microsoft announced large-scale layoffs.

Yesterday, Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Sony is going to produce only one million copies of PS VR 2 in the first quarter of 2023 instead of the previously planned two million. However, Sony later issued a denial.

Electronic Arts (EA) has decided to abandon two mobile projects at once. She announced that Apex Legends Mobile will stop working on May 1, 2023, and Battlefield Mobile will not be released.

Electronic Arts (EA) has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022). We have selected the main figures from it.

Tenjin and GameAnalytics have prepared a report on the situation on the advertising market in hyper casual games for the fourth quarter of 2022.

The Polish company Techland revealed this figure in a press release for PAP Biznes.

On January 27, a strike took place in the Ubisoft studio in Paris. It involved 40 employees or about 15% of the staff.

In December last year, the British publisher Kwalee boasted that his mobile portfolio came close to the billion downloads mark — then he had 969 million downloads on his account. A month later, the company announced that it had finally managed to overcome a landmark milestone.

It seems that the French publisher Voodoo no longer believes in the potential of hyper-casual games. Alexander Shea, who heads the publishing direction of the company, said during the PGC London 2023 conference that this genre is dead.

PS VR2 pre-orders did not meet Sony‘s expectations. According to Bloomberg, because of this, the company has revised its plans for the production of the headset, and now it is going to produce only one million devices in the first quarter. Initially, there should have been 2 million of them .

In 2023, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are going to skip E3, IGN reports, citing sources. If the portal’s information is confirmed, it will be the first time that all three companies do not participate in the exhibition.

On Friday, January 27, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Russian gaming industry. According to Kommersant, during it, officials discussed the problems faced by developers due to sanctions. In particular, they touched on the topic of audiostocks.

Epic Games plans to close the Rumbleverse game six months after the release. According to insider Tom Henderson, the Battle royale will begin to be removed from the stores today, and it will finally stop working at the end of February.

The KGB of Belarus has added Nikolay Katselapov, Director of Business Development at Wargaming, to the list of persons involved in terrorism. The corresponding entry appeared on the agency’s website on January 3, however, the media paid attention to it only now.