The sanctions have seriously affected the Russian gaming market. According to the results of last year, its volume decreased by 80%, the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) estimated.

The founders of the Mundfish studio expect that in the future their team will be able to make games in 24-hour mode. Robert Bagratuni and Evgenia Sedova shared such plans in an interview with Durov’s Code.

Subway Surfers runner has crossed another billion-dollar milestone. The Danish company SYBO reported that in the 11 years since its release, its game has been downloaded over 4 billion times.

CD PROJEKT Group of Companies announced the cancellation of expenses incurred while working on Project Sirius, a multiplayer game in the Witcher universe. They amounted to 42.9 million zlotys or $9.76 million.

The National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) has issued licenses for the release of 27 foreign games in the country. The list of approved games included, among others, Merge Mansion from Metacore and Spring Valley from Playkot.

Metaverse projects continue to attract investment. German Flying Sheep Studios has announced that it has received $ 1.2 million to create the game Star Life. The money was given by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection of Germany.

In September last year, Lars Gustavsson, the creative director of the Battlefield series, left DICE. But he didn’t give up game development. A few months later, he opened his studio called TTK Games, according to insider Tom Henderson.

The head of Microsoft‘s gaming division in an interview with the Financial Times said that the corporation could open an Xbox store for mobile devices as early as next year. This will happen if regulators approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Dream Games has announced the launch of its first overseas office. It is located in London.

The publisher Digital Bros told about this in the report for the half-year, which ended on December 31, 2022.

Kepler Interactive called the releases of Scorn and Sifu very successful, Ubisoft closed its division in Italy, and Team17 announced layoffs — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

On March 15, Unity published a study on the main trends in game development for the beginning of 2023. We wrote briefly about the report last week. In the current publication — in detail about him in Russian.

The Atomic Heart shooter has become the second most popular novelty this spring in M.Video-Eldorado. However, it sold four times worse than Hogwarts Legacy.

For the second time in a month, the European regulator has pushed back the date by which it should make a final decision on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

The second material by Evgeny Gilmanov, head of monetization at Belka Games, is about the principles that guide the development and implementation of a monetization strategy in the company.

MMO Palia about life in the village has not yet been released, but it has already attracted hundreds of thousands of users. The developers from Singularity 6 said that to date, 600 thousand people have applied to participate in testing the game.

Square Enix decided to help employees cope with rising prices in Japan. She announced that she will pay a higher salary from April.

Facepunch Studios planned to meet with fans at the GDC developer conference next week. However, the meeting had to be canceled after several studio employees received death threats.

The analytical company Newzoo has published a detailed report on the state of the console and PC games market in 2022.