Evgenia Zibareva, Business Development Director of VKontakte, shared the platform’s plans in an interview with Vedomosti.

The Swedish company told about this in a report for April-September 2022.

Bad news. By the end of 2022, the global video game market will sink by 4.3%. This is reported by the analytical company Newzoo. She also notes that she is recording a reduction in the sector for the first time in the history of her monitoring.

In September 2022, three people from Epic Games opened their own studio called Noodle Cat Games. Now they have received the first investment, which will go to hiring employees and developing the debut game.

Game designer Dene Carter believes that there is nothing wrong with borrowing the scale of games from other projects. He admitted that he did it himself during the development of Fable.

The studio’s management could not agree with its main shareholder Motorsport Network on where to get funding. This is stated in a report for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

On May 2, Embracer Group announced the purchase of several studios from Square Enix, among which was Eidos Shanghai. Six months after the deal, the company decided to give Shanghai Eidos under the management of its “daughter” — Gearbox Publishing.

The Chinese giant Tencent continues to report a decline in revenue. In the third quarter, its revenue fell by 2% to $19.7 billion. This is $225 million lower than analysts expected.

Two months ago, Rockstar Games was subjected to a hacker attack. Hackers published a lot of data about GTA VI and threatened to merge the source code of GTA V. It seems that now they — or someone else -have decided to carry out this threat.

Valeria Tsygankova, publishing director of the World of Ships, shared the figures in an interview with Kommersant. According to her, about as much game users will spend on the purchase of premium accounts and internal currency.

The money will be used to develop and support the “World of Tanks”, “World of Ships” and Tanks Blitz, launch new games, upgrade infrastructure and hire an additional 400-450 employees.

Despite the current situation in Russia, the demand for education in the gaming field is not falling, — so say the representatives of the Scream School of game development. First of all, they are based on their own indicators, which they shared with App2Top.

This was stated by the head of Xbox in the framework of the Decoder podcast. He did not name the approximate period for which Call of Duty may linger on Sony consoles, but noted that it is a bit silly to expect Microsoft to sign a contract with the word “forever”.

Next week — November 23-24 — the next WN Conference will be held in Israel. The final version of the program is already available on the event website. What to pay attention to in it is in our material.

The parent company of the authors of Free Fire has published a financial report for the third quarter of 2022. For her gaming division, this period did not go very well.

According to Reuters, citing sources close to the company, the layoffs affect half of Tencent‘s divisions, including gaming.

Multiplying the number of reviews by a certain average value for the market is one of the easiest ways to roughly estimate the sales of a game on Steam. Gaming expert Simon Carless made adjustments to this system and updated the median multipliers for games with different runs.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group has agreed to purchase the Jumpship studio. He publicly announced the deal on the day of the release of Somerville, the company’s debut game.

It surpassed almost all games released in 2022 in terms of physical sales in the UK in its debut week. According to GfK, only FIFA 23 sold better at the start.