The Finnish publisher and developer Rovio has published an annual report. The company managed to increase revenue, but its profit and audience of games decreased.

The PUBG developer decided to support the residents of Turkey who suffered from earthquakes. Kim Chang-han, CEO of KRAFTON, expressed his condolences and said that his company will transfer $100,000 to the Turkish humanitarian organization AHBAP.

VK Play platform has announced the launch of an investment division — “VK Play Investments”. She is going to invest 300 million rubles in gaming teams through him in 2023.

There are rumors in Chinese social networks that Blizzard Entertainment has chosen a publisher who will operate its games in China. If you believe them, then in April Zhejiang Century Huatong, a group of companies that publishes Final Fantasy XIV and Dungeons & Dragons Online in China, will become a new partner of the developer.

The revenue of the browser-based G5 Entertainment app store is growing rapidly. As the Swedish company said in a recent financial report, in December last year, for the first time, the G5 Store brought it more money than the Amazon Appstore and six times more than the Mac version of the App Store.

A new game development studio, Electric Saint, has appeared in London. It was founded by Anna Hollinrake, who previously worked at Mediatonic, and Pavle Mihajlovic, a veteran of Flavourworks and 22cans.

By the end of December 2022, over two thousand developers had been registered on the platform. 96% of them are from indie teams, the press service of Yandex Games reports.

The South Korean company KRAFTON shared the success of the project in the framework of the financial report for 2022. She also noted that the average MAU of this version of PUBG has grown 1.6 times over the year.

Nintendo has confirmed that the standard edition of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will cost gamers $70. The new price has already appeared on the pre-order page of the game in the Nintendo eShop.

February 9 Amazon Web Services (AWS) representatives They will hold a workshop within the framework of the WN Belgrade’23 conference. They will tell you how to improve the key metrics of the game at different stages of its life cycle.

The publisher of mobile games SayGames shared the successes over the past year. From January to December 2022, one billion downloads of the company’s games were made. As for its revenue from IAP, it reached $37.5 million.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a preliminary decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The regulator said that in its current form, the deal would harm competition in the gaming market.

A year and a half ago, Finnish Fingersoft launched an experiment. She offered willing employees to temporarily work either four days a week for eight hours, or five days a week for six hours. The second option turned out to be much more popular. Now it will be available in the studio on a permanent basis.

On February 7, the owners of the Deluxe edition of Hogwarts Legacy received access to the project. According to SteamDB, the number of simultaneous users of the Steam version of the game alone at the time of writing the news exceeded 261.6 thousand people.

FNTASTIC has responded to the claims that have recently been coming to its address. Among other things, the studio explained that it rarely publishes information about The Day Before, because it does not have a marketing department.

Nintendo can join the number of companies that sell their games for $70. The network noticed that on February 8, the Nintendo eShop opened a pre-order for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with a price tag of $ 70. However, almost immediately Nintendo removed the possibility of pre-ordering and hid the cost of the game.

The Australian government agency Screen Australia continues to invest in local indie developers. This time it invested a total of one million dollars in the authors of 11 games.

Banning the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard could hurt the ambitions of the UK authorities, Bobby Kotick believes. In an interview with CNBC, the head of Activision Blizzard said that if the deal does not take place, the country will lose the opportunity to become a European Silicon Valley.

The main scandal of the last day in the Russian game dev is the appearance of a two—hour appeal by the former head of the narrative department of MYTONA, Sergey Gres, to the company’s management. We have prepared a summary and highlighted the main thing.