The Israeli holding company Playtika will not develop new games until it becomes economically feasible. This was announced by Playtika President Craig Abrahams during the presentation of the annual financial report.

Kotaku sources report that on February 28, Electronic Arts (EA) fired all testers who worked in the Baton Rouge office – more than 200 people. They were mainly engaged in Apex Legends.

In September 2022, Japanese game designer Toshimichi Mori left Arc System Works after 19 years of work, promising to continue developing games. He intends to keep his promise. Together with Toshinori Aoki, the former vice president of Marvelous, Mori opened a studio called Studio Flare.

Comparitech came to this conclusion. In a recent study, she looked at whether apps and games for children comply with the so—called “Children’s code” – a set of rules in the UK prohibiting online services from tracking the personal data of minors.

Ampere Analysis has prepared an overview of the console market for 2022. Among other things, she said that by December 31, the total sales of the PS5 reached 30 million devices, while the Xbox Series consoles sold much worse — 18.5 million devices.

On February 25, Valve updated the Steam rules regarding keys for games. Expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the GameDiscoverCo newsletter spoke in detail about the changes. We have chosen the main thing.

In July 2015, Rovio released the second part of Angry Birds. Since that moment, the revenue of the mobile game from in-app purchases has exceeded $ 500 million, writes MobileGamer.biz with a link to the AppMagic data.

This was reported by experts from StormWall in the comment “TASS”. According to their data, mobile and PC games were most often the target of cyber attacks.

Square Enix is restructuring. She said that from May 1, Luminous Productions will cease to operate as a separate subsidiary studio and will become part of Square Enix.

Ubisoft Montpellier studio, which has been working on Beyond Good & Evil 2 for almost 15 years, has lost its managing director. Kotaku sources claim that Guillaume Carmona has not appeared at work since the beginning of the year, and recently decided to finally leave the company.

The National Assembly of South Korea voted almost unanimously for an amendment to the Gambling Law — it was supported by 180 out of 182 deputies. The amendment will oblige developers to report with what probability items fall out of loot boxes.

The Star Citizen space simulator has reached a new milestone. According to the latest data, Cloud Imperium Games has already raised $551.6 million for the development of the game.

Developer and publisher Kwalee is seriously interested in the possibilities of artificial intelligence. He suggested that employees think about how to effectively implement neural networks like ChatGPT and Midjourney into workflows.

Over the past year, China’s NetEase has been actively increasing its presence abroad. She bought Quantic Dream and opened four studios outside of China. However, the company recently announced that at least until 2025, its foreign divisions will not release a single game.

The Russian age-marking system for video games was proposed at the start to be distributed only to digital publications, Hogwarts Legacy sold over 12 million copies in the first two weeks, the developers of the calendar application TheDayBefore confirmed that they are trying to defend the rights to the trademark of the same name — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The use of Midjourney allowed the Lost Lore game studio to significantly optimize the costs of creating art. How exactly, — Evgeny Kitkin, the founder and CEO of the studio, told in his column.

Blumhouse Productions decided to develop video games. To do this, she launched the Blumhouse Games division.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group has become the owner of another game development studio. Through his subsidiary Headup, he acquired the German Studio Fizbin.

Representatives of the Odnoklassniki social network told about this in a report on the game results of 2022.