Already the third studio in Activision Blizzard faced problems when creating a trade union. The management of Proletariat has announced that it will not voluntarily recognize the association of employees. It demanded that the developers first conduct an anonymous vote through the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

VK group at a meeting with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation said that it plans to continue to actively invest in game developers. Through the VK Play division, she intends to invest in projects that are at the prototype stage or at an early stage of development.

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” told which physical editions of console games were in the greatest demand among Russians last year.

Another association has released a report on the UK gaming market. UKIE has counted the number of gaming companies in the country.

A group of Playground Games veterans led by Mike Brown, the former creative director of the Forza Horizon series, has launched its own game development studio. She has already attracted the first investments (their size is not disclosed) and has started developing the debut AAA open-world game for PC and consoles.

WN Media Group has announced the first WN Conference in Serbia. We tell you what to expect from the event.

This became known from a report prepared by the UK Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA). According to experts, video games have become the most monetary sphere of entertainment in the country over the past year, surpassing music in revenue.

Former employees of the Striking Distance studio in a conversation with the GamesIndustry portal.biz was told that not all game developers were included in the credits of The Callisto Protocol. According to them, some of the key specialists who worked on the project for more than a year did not get into the credits.

Microsoft Corporation, together with a number of venture capital firms, is negotiating investments in OpenAI, Semafor reports, citing sources. If the deal goes through, the market value of AI developers will be $29 billion.

The British publisher Frontier Developments is facing the biggest daily stock drop in the company’s history. This happened after he reported low sales of F1 Manager 2022 during the winter holidays.

With the support of AppMagic, the editors of App2Top have prepared a report on the most popular and highest-grossing mobile games in December.

In February 2021, Turkish Dream Games released a match-3 Royal Match game. Almost two years after its release, the puzzle continues to earn well. As the MobileGamer portal noted, at the end of 2022, the monthly revenue of the game with IAP exceeded $ 40 million.

During the New Year holidays, Steam once again broke the record for the number of simultaneous users of the platform. According to SteamDB, on Saturday, January 7, the peak online platform exceeded a record 32 million people, and the next day it reached 33 million people.

CD PROJEKT settled the conflict with investors due to the problematic release of Cyberpunk 2077, Microsoft stopped calling the FTC lawsuit due to the purchase of Activision Blizzard unconstitutional, NetEase acquired the studio involved in the development of Halo Infinite and Minecraft – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

We summed up the results of the year together with Pavel Tokarev, the founder of Inlingo. He talked about moving to Dubai, a new methodology for localization of projects, the work of the art department and much more.

After the New Year, we continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with the top managers of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Albert Zhiltsov, director of 1C Game Studios.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Boris Sinitsky, the publishing director of the World of Tanks at Lesta Games.

Summed up the results of the year together with Ivan Koziev, COO of Crazy Panda studio. He talked about how he managed to keep most of the team, shared a new challenge that faced the company, and noted a drop in coverage among mislid creatives.

We talked about the results of the year in gaming education with Ekaterina Cherkeszade, Rector of the University of Creative Industries Universal University and Dean of the Faculty of Game Development Scream School. She spoke about the demand for education in the niche and who comes here first.