Bandai Namco sued a former employee. According to the company, from April 2015 to April 2022, he stole about 4.4 thousand smartphones intended for testing mobile games.

The exact size of the investment is not disclosed. According to the estimates of the GamesIndustry portal.biz, we are talking about many millions of dollars.

The premiere of the series on The Last of Us led to a sharp increase in the daily audience of games, based on which the show was filmed. As noted in Newzoo, the DAU of the first part of the franchise* has grown especially strongly — by 300% at once.

On January 25, Jim Ryan met with Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition. This is reported by Reuters with reference to sources.

Oleg Tuzov, project manager of Belka Games, spoke about the experience of launching an R&D department, building processes in it, and also gave several recommendations to those who are interested in launching a similar department in the company.

At the end of December, the South Korean Pearl Abyss held a charity event in Black Desert Online and Black Desert Mobile. As part of it, users could buy special game items, the proceeds from the sales of which the company pledged to transfer to the non-profit organization Doctors Without Borders.

Metacore studio decided to “resurrect” the Everdale urban planner, which Supercell closed last October. She bought the rights to the title and all its assets for an unknown amount.

The audience of vampire survival V Rising continues to grow. Developers from Stunlock Studios announced that since last May, their game has already been bought by 3 million people.

After the recent removal of The Day Before from Steam and the postponement of the release to November, a rumor began to circulate online that the game never existed. In a comment for IGN, the co-founders of the Fntastic studio denied this.

According to officials, such a list can be created by analogy with RuStore.

MY.GAMES investment division continues to invest in gaming assets. Today it became known about the conclusion of a strategic partnership between the foundation and two game studios — DC1AB and AMT Games.

India’s antitrust regulator has forced Google to make concessions for the local market. The company announced that developers will soon be able to add third-party payment systems to applications for Indian users.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game engine developer at MYTONA, a game designer at JustMoby and a marketing intern at WN Media Group.

There is a decline in the mobile blockchain games market. Analysts from Sensor Tower calculated that by the end of 2022, the revenue of such titles with IAP in Google Play and the App Store fell by 13.9% year-on—year – this is the first drop in five years.

VK reported that as of the end of 2022, 12 million people had registered on the VK Play gaming platform. At the beginning of November, there were only 7 million of them.

Last week, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 people. Later it became known that studio 343 Industries “suffered greatly” from the cuts, but the exact number of dismissed developers was not called.

The administration of GOG in the official blog published statistics on the results of last year. We have selected a few facts from it.

Deputy Dmitry Kuznetsov, the author of the bill on compulsory licensing of foreign software, has prepared an updated version of the document. He suggested using different licensing mechanisms depending on whether the company receives a license for the selected software for the first time or not.