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.

Swedish Paradox Interactive summed up the financial results of 2022. Let’s go through the main figures.

The other day, sources of The New York Times reported that the British regulator may oppose the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard — Microsoft itself allegedly expects this. However, the corporation later denied the rumors.

On February 6, exactly two months have passed since the official release of Dwarf Fortress. In honor of this, Tanya Short, the head of Kitfox Games publishing house, announced that the game’s sales amounted to 606,342 copies.

Nintendo has announced that it will improve the remuneration of Japanese employees, despite the fact that the company’s own revenues have decreased. It will raise the base salary of both new and current employees by 10%.

Nintendo has published a financial report for the last nine months of 2022. This period was productive for the Japanese company. In particular, the total sales of the Nintendo Switch reached 122.55 million devices, which is more than the PS4 (117 million).

Strauss Zelnick said in a conversation with investors that he is skeptical about the hype around AI. He does not believe that one day developers will be able to simply write neural networks “create a GTA competitor that will be better than GTA” and get a great game at the output.

Take-Two also reported on its finances. The company has released a report for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2022.

Activision Blizzard summed up the results of the fourth quarter of 2022, reporting several records at once. For example, net bookings have grown to a record level. They amounted to $3.57 billion — 43% more compared to the previous year.