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.

The Saudi government wants to turn the country into a “world entertainment center” by 2030. It intends to invest $38 billion in the development of the local gaming industry through the Public Investment Fund and its subsidiary Savvy Gaming Group.

On March 16, Newzoo published a 58-page report on the state of affairs in the PC and console games market. We have already covered it briefly. It’s time for a detailed analysis. Prepare a mug with more tea, there will be a lot of graphs and numbers.

Autobattler with elements of the urban simulator Cookie Run: Kingdom earns great. The mobile game was released in January 2021 and by February 2023 it had earned over $400 million, according to Sensor Tower analysts.

Last November, Nintendo announced that it was going to launch a subsidiary of Nintendo Systems together with mobile developer DeNA. Five months later, they actually opened a joint venture.

The release of the Resident Evil 4 remake spurred the growth of Capcom shares. Analyst Serkan Toto (Serkan Toto) drew attention to the fact that now the company’s shares are selling more expensive than ever.

Landfall Games decided to celebrate April 1 by publishing on Steam a free selection with playable prototypes of projects that the studio has been working on since 2016.