Square Enix and Luminous Productions could spend over $100 million on the development of Forspoken. This figure was revealed in her LinkedIn profile by the screenwriter of the game Allison Rymer (Allison Rymer).

At the end of last year, AST Publishing house published a book by indie developer Slava Gris, “Make a video game alone and Don’t Go Crazy.” We liked the book so much that we decided to write about it, and at the same time share one of its chapters on our pages.

Epic Games does not guarantee that the sellers of assets in the Unreal Engine Marketplace have rights to the distributed content. The company announced this in response to a request from the developers of Bleak Faith: Forsaken, who were recently accused of borrowing animations from Elden Ring.

Epic Games Store (EGS) General Manager Steve Allison discussed the situation with blockchain games in the store with Axios journalists. In his opinion, it is too early to judge the success of such projects in EGS. The first conclusions can be made at the beginning of next year.

Activision has announced that it is not going to close Call of Duty: Mobile in the near future. Rumors about the imminent termination of support for the game appeared after the publication of Microsoft‘s response to the British antitrust regulator.

In March last year, Russian IT companies were allowed to temporarily not pay income tax. This benefit should cease to be valid on December 31, 2024, but recently the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposed to make it indefinite.

What is a Google Ads agent account, — Mikhail Karpach, head of the advertising department of the YeezyPay payment service, told in his column.

On March 10, it became known about the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest US bank specializing in high-risk investments in technology startups (it accounted for half of all American venture financing). Many businesses have lost money. Including gaming.

Sony‘s CFO believes that the PS5 will sell over 60 million devices over the entire life cycle of the console. Hiroki Totoki told about this at the Morgan Stanley conference.

The simulator of the border guard Contraband Police, developed by the Polish studio Crazy Rocks, has successfully started. The general director of the PlayWay publishing house Krzysztof Kostowski said that 49 thousand people bought the game in the first two days. This allowed us to recapture all development and marketing costs.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has expanded the list of goods that can be imported into Russia as part of parallel imports. In particular, the list again includes Nintendo products.

Sensor Tower analysts in a large report on mobile games separately talked about the situation in Russia in 2022. It wasn’t very good.

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at which genres of mobile games were leading last year in terms of revenue and downloads. We share the tops.

Japanese developer and publisher Cygames wants to attract more people to the gaming industry. To do this, the company has launched a scholarship program.

On March 2, a chamber event for WN Connect gaming companies took place in the capital of Georgia. It was attended by 180 people, including representatives of companies such as Playrix, Plarium and Unity. The event was sponsored by TapClap, AppsFlyer and Xsolla. We share the results and photos from the event.

Last year, gaming companies around the world actively greened the planet. The organizers of Green Game Jam 2022 announced that 2.48 million trees were planted as part of their event alone.

Square Enix, in a presentation to investors, confirmed that Forspoken sold worse at the start than the company expected. She did not name the number of copies sold, but noted that sales were “low.”

The head of Epic Games criticized Valve for the limited capabilities of the Steamworks API for multiplayer games. In an interview with the PC Gamer portal, he stated that the company has seriously complicated the lives of both developers and other app stores.