There will soon be one more game in the Lesta Games portfolio. By April 14, Fulqrum Publishing* will transfer the rights to the MMORPG Royal Quest to the company.

Owners of Xbox consoles from Russia can no longer apply for warranty repairs directly to Microsoft. The Izvestia newspaper, with reference to the technical support of the corporation, reported that Microsoft had stopped warranty service in the country “due to the current situation.”

American McGee decided to leave game development, and the creative director of Halo Infinite announced his departure from Microsoft — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at JustMoby, a senior-level game designer at Azur Games and a data analyst at Dankolab.

Investors continue to invest in blockchain. The DappRadar platform, together with the Blockchain Games Alliance, estimated that in the first three months of 2023, the volume of investments in games with blockchain and NFT amounted to $ 739 million. This is 12.95% more than a quarter earlier.

In 2021, Argentina launched a program to train prisoners in prison to develop video games. Mishka Palacios de Caro, one of the authors of the program and a part-time teacher, in an interview with the Rest of the World portal, spoke about its features.

In April 2022, the Chinese regulator resumed issuing permits for the publication of games in the country after a pause that lasted eight months. Nevertheless, licenses were not issued very willingly all year. In 2023, the situation will improve, Niko Partners predicts.

A group of employees of the American company Bandcamp, which owns the music platform of the same name, opposed CEO Ethan Diamond, as well as Epic Games. Activists claim that they interfere with organizing a trade union.

In 2023, the Steam Deck will remain a niche device, but its sales will grow, Omdia predicts. According to analysts, Valve will sell 1.85 million portable PCs in a year — 14% more than in 2022.

Capcom has announced a new achievement of the Resident Evil 4 remake. In two weeks, the game has sold over 4 million copies.

At the end of March, the British regulator changed its attitude to the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. He stopped believing that buying Activision Blizzard would harm competition in the console games market. Sony did not like such conclusions.

Greg Street, the former executive producer of the League of Legends MMO, is going to establish his “remote studio”. He has already found a strategic partner.

The Hungarian studio Nemesys Games may have become part of ZeniMax Media and now operates under the name ZeniMax Online Studios Hungary. Twitter user bogorad222 noticed a mention of this on LinkedIn.

The creators of the reversible urban planning simulator Terra Nil also revealed the circulation of their game. Studio Free Lives and publisher Devolver Digital announced that in just over a week the audience of the project exceeded 300 thousand people.

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.