Korean publisher NCSOFT has decided to conduct a global business reorganization. As part of it, the company will cut a fifth of the employees of the division that operates Lineage, Blade & Soul and its other games in Western countries.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a 2D/3D animator at Lesta Games and a VFX artist at ExoGenesis.

The Chinese antimonopoly regulator asked the opinion of local developers about the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation. He did not publicly publish the answers, but, according to media reports, the companies interviewed did not object to the deal.

Chris Wanstrath, one of the authors of GitHub, announced the launch of his own game publishing house. Null Games will work with independent developers, helping them with financing, marketing, porting and other things.

The developers of Dwarf Fortress have published a fresh report on the state of the game. They said that in January Dwarf Fortress brought them $7.23 million — 462 times more than in December and 44 times more than in the whole of 2022.

On January 31, James Gunn and Peter Safran spoke in more detail about their plans to create a shared DC universe. In particular, they stated that they want to use the same actors in films, TV series, comics and games. Jake Solomon, creative director of XCOM and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, has already spoken out against this approach.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) failed to block a deal between Meta* and Within Unlimited. The District Court of California allowed the company to buy the developers of the Supernatural VR game, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

Sony has published another financial report today. In it, the company disclosed the results of the third quarter of fiscal 2022.

Ambitions to create a metaverse are expensive for Meta*. In the latest financial report, the company reported that the losses of the Reality Labs division for 2022 amounted to $13.717 billion, which is 34.5% more than a year ago.

On January 31, the original Final Fantasy VII turned 26 years old. In honor of the anniversary of the game, producer Yoshinori Kitase announced that sales of the project have reached 14.1 million copies.

The story of layoffs in gaming companies continues. Next up is the American publisher of Tilting Point. He announced a restructuring in which he will part with about 60 employees.

The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a 50-page report on competition in the mobile store market. In it, the agency called Apple and Google “gatekeepers” whose policies harm both users and developers.

NVIDIA may become one of the witnesses in the trial between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft. This is reported by journalist Stephen Totilo, who studied court documents.

Capcom has updated the “platinum list” with games. It includes projects whose sales exceed a million copies.

Journalist Jason Schreier from Bloomberg found out how the situation at 343 Industries changed after Microsoft announced large-scale layoffs.

Yesterday, Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Sony is going to produce only one million copies of PS VR 2 in the first quarter of 2023 instead of the previously planned two million. However, Sony later issued a denial.

Electronic Arts (EA) has decided to abandon two mobile projects at once. She announced that Apex Legends Mobile will stop working on May 1, 2023, and Battlefield Mobile will not be released.

Electronic Arts (EA) has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022). We have selected the main figures from it.

Tenjin and GameAnalytics have prepared a report on the situation on the advertising market in hyper casual games for the fourth quarter of 2022.