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News November 25, 2022

Maksut Shadaev: the departure of IT specialists did not cause irreparable damage to the Russian industry

This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation at the Digital Diamond forum in Yakutia.

News November 25, 2022

Veterans of EA and Mythical Games have opened a publishing house. Will publish blockchain games

The new blockchain publishing house is called Fenix Games. It has already attracted $150 million in investments.

Art November 25, 2022

Purchased 3D assets — saving time or a waste of money? We understand

What obstacles await the team that decided to use purchased assets in the game, — says Maxim Nikifarovich, the leading artist of Belka Games.

News November 25, 2022

Unknown Worlds management bought shares of PUBG developers in the amount of $ 22.2 million

Top managers said they believe in the potential of Krafton.

News November 25, 2022

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is the leader of the retail sales chart in Japan

According to Famitsu, physical sales of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet in Japan last week totaled an impressive 2.53 million copies. This is 96.3% of the sales of all games included in the weekly retail top 10.

News November 25, 2022

People Can Fly has opened an office in Krakow. This is the eighth studio of the company

The creators of Outriders have got a new office. They reported that they had been eyeing Krakow for a long time and finally decided to establish a branch there.

News November 24, 2022

Daniel Ahmad: the revenue of the mobile game Goddess of Victory: Nikke at the end of the first month of sales will be $100 million

A senior analyst at Niko Partners said that the earnings of Goddess of Victory: Nikke will exceed the $100 million mark in the first four weeks of operation. The main revenue will come from the markets of Japan, South Korea and the USA.

Vacancies November 24, 2022

Vacancies of the week: AIRICORE, Dankolab and Incrdbl Mobile Entertainment are looking for employees

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: Unity developer at AIRICORE, chief monetization manager at Dankolab and Android developer at Incrdbl Mobile Entertainment.

News November 24, 2022

Hungry Shark has become Ubisoft’s most downloaded mobile franchise

The French publisher announced that the cumulative downloads of the Hungry Shark series of games have crossed the billion mark.

Law November 24, 2022

Estonian crime. A fraudulent scheme became known, as a result of which the authors of Disco Elysium were kicked out into the street

ZA/UM was bought by scammers with the money of the studio itself. Tells about how it was.

News November 24, 2022

By 2024, the revenue of the cloud gaming market in Russia will grow to $68 million — 14.8 times from 2020

This forecast was shared by Roman Epishin, Marketing Director of VK Play Cloud, who relied on PwC data and GFN.RU .

News November 24, 2022

Media: miHoYo disbanded the team that worked on the game codenamed Project SH

Information about what is happening in the studio of Genshin Impact authors appeared on the Chinese GameLook portal. The journalists got acquainted with the letter that CEO Cai Haoyu sent to the employees of miHoYo.

News November 24, 2022

Microsoft has admitted that “many” Sony exclusives are better than its games

The corporation reported this in a 111-page report for the British regulator.

News November 24, 2022

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold 10 million copies in three days

It showed the largest launch in the history of Nintendo.

News November 24, 2022

The FTC May Be Preparing to Block a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard

According to Politico sources, the agency may file an antitrust lawsuit against the deal as early as next month.

News November 24, 2022

Media: Electronic Arts has completely left Russia

Electronic Arts (EA) has finally stopped working on the Russian market. She also moved to Poland all activities related to marketing in the CIS countries.

Game design November 23, 2022

Work on a turn-based combat system. Grumpy Owl Games Experience

The indie team from the Netherlands Grumpy Owl Games shared their experience of working on a turn-based combat system with App2Top.

News November 23, 2022

The launch of God of War Ragnarök is the most successful in the history of PlayStation

In the first five days of sales, God of War Ragnarök sold 5.1 million copies.

News November 23, 2022

Netflix is working on a high-budget game for PC

This became known from the job description of the company. Judging by them, the game is being handled by the Los Angeles studio Netflix, which is headed by Chacko Sonny, a former executive producer of Overwatch.

News November 23, 2022

The State Duma rejected an amendment to ban video games with LGBT propaganda and violence

On November 23, the State Duma held a plenary session at which, among other things, it discussed a possible ban in Russia of video games with LGBT propaganda, violence and a number of other things. Officials did not support the amendment with such a proposal, but have already started working on a similar bill.