Several Blizzard Entertainment employees anonymously told the Game Developer portal how the last working meeting organized by Mike Ybarra took place. In short: not very good.

SEGA will pay employees more. She announced that on July 1, 2023, she would increase the average monthly salary by 30%.

For the second time this week, it becomes known that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia is increasing its stake in Nintendo. Now he owns 8.3% of the Japanese company.

Telltale Games studio has closed the Series A funding round. During it, the developers received $8 million from the Hiro Capital fund and Skybound Entertainment.

The Saudi authorities continue to pay great attention to the gaming industry. Axios portal noticed that the country’s state funds invested money in three more companies.

Ubisoft has released a report for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2022. She reported a drop in receipts (net bookings), but noted the success of a number of projects.

How, during the change in the structure of the Belka Games teams, it was possible to increase the frequency of the release of updates and set two records for daily revenue, — said Vitaly Kuzmin, director of development of the company.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. Wanted this week: delivery director at Playkot, game designer at JustMoby and financial manager at Fun to Mass Games.

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.