It became the only novelty in the top ten best-selling games in the UK retail last week. GfK estimates that 74% of the discs sold with The Callisto Protocol came from the PS5 version.

The problematic release of The Callisto Protocol hurt the company Krafton, which published the game. According to the GameMeca website, the publisher has dropped to second place in capitalization among Korean gaming companies.

Recently, another of the authorized members of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began to lean in favor of the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, sources say the New York Post. Now exactly half of the inspectors are in favor of the deal.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 48th week of the year.

How to record all game content in the format that the engine will accept, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the Vengeance Games studio and scientific director of the Game Project Management program at the HSE.

VK looked at which games in 2022 were most often mentioned by users of the VKontakte social network in comments and posts.

CD PROJEKT unexpectedly revealed that since 2015, Japanese gamers have bought The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt over a million times. The company did not provide statistics for other countries.

Gamers were not thrilled with the horror of The Callisto Protocol — they complain massively about poor optimization, bugs and other technical problems. Against this background and the average ratings of critics, the shares of the company Krafton, which published the game, fell by 8.41%.

Apple has announced that this year developers will be able to apply for app updates in the App Store even during the winter holidays. Until 2021, the company arranged a break for a few days at the end of December.

On November 23-24, a conference for game developers and publishers WN Conference was held in Tel Aviv. This week, the organizers shared its results in graphs.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: an Android developer at Incrdbl Mobile Entertainment, a leading UX artist at Agranovsky IT and a 2D animator at ExoGenesis.

Last December, Supercell decided to strengthen its presence in North America and founded a new studio there. She recently hired key developers for this studio, and at the same time assembled a team to launch another one.

About 60% of new developers come to the platform from Steam. Rodion Kotelnikov, Technical director of VK Play, said this in a comment to TASS.

Information has appeared online that Yasha Haddazhi, the head of the Russian division of Nintendo, founded a gaming company. Legally, it is located at the same address as the Nintendo office.

Emmanuel de Maistre, CEO and co-founder of the Scenario startup, demonstrated what level of gaming assets can be achieved from neural networks today.

Newzoo analysts continue to share reports on gaming markets around the world. This time they talked about the situation in the UK market.

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has rejected Activision Blizzard‘s request to hold a new vote at Blizzard Albany. The company wanted all 107 studio employees to participate in it, not just 18 testers.

In the first three quarters of 2022, mobile RPGs earned a total of $15.6 billion, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. More than any other mobile genre.