By April 1, SEGA released on Steam a free detective novel The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, in which it is necessary to find out the circumstances of the murder of Sonic. In five days, the game has collected over a million downloads.

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” told which console games were best sold in Russian retail in the first quarter of 2023.

Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (PIF), has announced a new deal. She has agreed to buy the mobile publisher Scopely for $4.9 billion.

A new large holding company may appear on the Russian gaming market, sources of Kommersant report. It is going to be created by JSC “Multiplier Group”, which in December 2022 acquired the former Russian assets of MY.GAMES.

In early February, VK Play announced the launch of the VK Play Investments division and plans to invest 300 million rubles through it in Russian gaming teams. We have sent the company a number of questions regarding the future work of the division. We share the answers we received.

Nexters gaming company conducted a survey of the audience of its games. It concerned the attitude of gamers to mislids. About the survey results — in our material.

On April 4, the founder of the Polish studio Crazy Rocks Stanislaw Gromadowski announced that sales of the simulator of the border guard Contraband Police exceeded 250 thousand copies. He also admitted that the game was a salvation for the studio and helped it not to go bankrupt.

Paradox Interactive is going to restructure. It has announced plans to close divisions in Umea and Malmo and consolidate the entire Swedish business in Stockholm.

The SMP Racing organization founded by Boris Rotenberg wants to make a “Russian Assetto Corsa“. She asked the Russian authorities to support the development of a racing simulator and offered to include it in the program of the tournament “Games of the Future“.

95% of Russian gamers do not mind playing a game based on their favorite movie or TV series, according to the VK Play platform. She conducted a study and found out which game adaptations of film works the residents of Russia would most like to see.

Xbox and PlayStation console users play Electronic Arts games the most. Ampere Analysis analysts estimated that in February, the company accounted for 16.4% of active players from both platforms.

At the end of March, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation sent a request to the leadership of 219 universities. It asked to transmit to the “Organization for the Development of the Video Game industry” (RVI) information about the research conducted by universities in the field of video games.

More than 100 employees of Amazon‘s gaming division have been cut. This happened two weeks after Amazon announced the layoff of 9 thousand people across the company.

Based on the AppMagic database, App2Top editors have prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games in March.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates disagrees with the experts who proposed to stop training neural networks smarter than GPT-4 for six months. In an interview with Reuters, he said that instead of introducing a moratorium, it is worth identifying problem areas and dealing with them.

The Chinese company NetEase, apparently, lost the plagiarism trial at Riot Games. On April 10, she will shut down the servers of the Hyper Front game, which was previously accused of copying VALORANT.

Xbox Product Manager Mark Skwarski revealed the statistics of the Game Pass in his LinkedIn profile. Among other things, he told how many people use a PC subscription, and how many use Xbox consoles.

Activision Blizzard settled the conflict with the US Department of Justice, which was dissatisfied with the “salary ceiling” for esports players from the Overwatch and Call of Duty leagues.

Publisher Devolver Digital has made a new purchase. The company announced that it included the American studio Doinksoft, known for the metroidvaniya Gato Roboto.