XYZ School noticed that in 2023, women became more interested in learning in the field of games. She estimated that in January-February, their activity on the pages of online school courses about video games increased by 34% compared to the beginning of 2022.

The number of users in the games of the Free Fire developer studio continues to decline. In the latest financial report, Sea, the parent company of Garena, reported that in the period from October to December 2022, the total active audience of the games was 485.5 million people. This is 25.8% less than at the same time a year ago.

WN Talents In Games and App2Top are launching a new salary survey. We invite you to take part in it: answer where you are working from now and how much you earn.

The Polish studio Bloober Team is expanding. The creators of The Medium have announced that they will launch their first office in the USA in the second half of 2023. They will also soon have a unit in Warsaw.

Sensor Tower analytical company has announced new successes of the Korean Lineage series of games. According to her, to date, users of mobile versions alone have spent over $7 billion.

On February 23, Rovio removed the original Angry Birds from Google Play, and renamed it Red’s First Flight in the App Store. In a comment to Axios, a Rovio representative said that the company does not mind re—placing the game in the Google store in the future – or removing it from the App Store.

Microsoft is confident that the British regulator has greatly overestimated the number of Call of Duty fans who will buy Xbox consoles if the corporation makes the franchise exclusive. To prove their point, Microsoft commissioned a study from the independent company YouGov.

Analysts from Gamma Data have published a monthly report on the state of the Chinese gaming market. According to them, in January 2023, the market began to recover, but the situation on it is still far from ideal.

The games of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy series and many other projects of Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics studios have become available to users from Russia again on Steam.

IT companies founded by people from Belarus have firmly established themselves in the capital of Lithuania. Last year, they rented 15,000 square meters of office space — half of the space that all IT companies in Vilnius rented.

American Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal are concerned that Meta* is rumored to want to expand the audience of Horizon Worlds and let teenagers into its metaverse. They turned to Mark Zuckerberg and called for the plans to be immediately curtailed.

In 2020, several gamers from Austria sued Sony. In their lawsuits, they stated that they spent hundreds of euros to buy loot boxes in the PlayStation version of FIFA, but never received valuable cards with football players. In March 2022, the court sided with gamers and fined the company.

Respawn Entertainment has left the creative director, and Ubisoft, according to rumors, has decided to close some offices in Europe — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Today, March 3, the global launch of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty took place. The game was warmly received by critics, but PC users were very dissatisfied with it. We tell you how organically the latest Team Ninja game looks in the Koei Tecmo portfolio and how much, according to the developers, it has gone away from the Nioh dilogy.

The eFootball 2023 football simulator is actively collecting downloads. Konami announced that its mobile version alone has already been downloaded 600 million times.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games in February.

The CEO of the South Korean Nexon, Owen Mahoney, said at a meeting with investors that it was incorrect to call his publishing house a gaming company. Because it doesn’t work with video games, but with virtual worlds.

Analytical company data.ai She also spoke about the situation on the mobile games market in Mexico. According to her estimates, in 2022, spending by local gamers on in-game purchases increased by 9.3%.

Brazil’s mobile gaming market is booming. Analytical company data.ai I calculated that last year Brazilians spent $640 million on in-game purchases in them. This is 12.3% more than in 2021.