In 2022, China’s gaming market earned $40.1 billion, which is 10.3% less than the previous year. As noted by SCMP with reference to the data of the Association of Audio-Video and Digital Publishers of China, previously for two decades the market revenue only grew.

Blizzard Entertainment wrote on Weibo that it tried to extend the agreement with NetEase for another six months, but without success.

On January 16, The Callisto Protocol stopped selling on Steam to residents of Russia. Neither the publisher Krafton nor the developers from Striking Distance Studios have publicly announced the suspension of sales, but the page with the game no longer opens in the region.

Mobile Vampire Survivors is popular. Portal MobileGamer.biz With reference to the data, AppMagic reported that in the period from December 8 to January 16, the game collected 1.47 million downloads on Google Play and 1.68 million downloads on the App Store.

At the beginning of the month, the Insider Gaming portal reported that the American studio Motorsport Games has not been paying employees from Russia since October 2022. Then the developers said they were going to go to court. But it seems that recently one of them decided to move to more aggressive measures.

From December 14 to 28, a charity event was held at Solitaire Cruise — Belka Games promised to donate all proceeds from it to research on the treatment of cancer in children, as well as support for the sick and their families. Now the company has summed up the results of the event.

Game distributors LLC “Company Soft Club” and LLC “1C-Softclub” are now directly owned by the Russian 1C. According to Kommersant, at the end of last November, it acquired them from the Cypriot DM Investments Multi Ventures.

Liu Wei, one of the founders of miHoYo, spoke about the studio’s ambitious ambitions in an interview with the Chinese newspaper The Paper.

We continue to summarize the results of 2022. Next up is an interview with Pavel Moseikin, co—founder and CEO of XYZ School.

At the end of 2022, investors began to show great interest in Tencent shares again. As Bloomberg noted, since October 28, 2022, the share price of the Chinese holding has jumped by 96%.

COLOPL, the company that published the White Cat Project and Shironeko Tennis mobile games, decided to support the employees. She announced that throughout the year, in addition to her salary, she would pay a monthly allowance of ¥ 10 thousand, or approximately $78.2.

Last year, Russians rented consoles more often than usual, Kommersant reports, citing data from Avito, Arenter and Pauri services.

Korean analysts lowered their sales forecasts for The Callisto Protocol, artists sued the creators of the Midjourney and Stable Diffusion neural networks, and the Chinese authorities, according to rumors, decided to acquire a stake in one of Tencent’s “daughters” — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The year 2023 started unsuccessfully for Ubisoft. Against the background of recent problems, the capitalization of the French publisher sank to € 2.67 billion. Now it is once again priced cheaper than CD PROJEKT.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week we are looking for: UI/UX designer at Lesta Games, game designer at ZiMAD and a leading recruiter at WN Media Group.

The TASS agency noticed in the roadmap “New System-wide Software” (NOPO) fresh details about the game engine that VK is working on.

Google and NVIDIA have shared with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) information about the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. According to Bloomberg, citing sources, in their statements, the companies supported Sony‘s concerns and indicated that this purchase could harm competition in the markets of cloud services, subscriptions and mobile games.

Maxim Donskikh accused Igor Matsanyuk, chairman of the board of directors of Game Insight, of fraud. In a Facebook post* he wrote that four years ago Matsanyuk did not give him a “large” amount of money when he was dismissed from the company.

Denis Kachura, the arbitration manager in the bankruptcy case of Game Insight in Russia, spoke about what is happening in the publishing house of mobile games. He stated that in his many-year career, he had never encountered such defiant and ugly behavior of the company before.