Just last month, American gamers spent $4.18 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to NPD Group analysts.

The developers from FuturLab have announced that they have prepared a research version of the PowerWash Simulator. With its help, Oxford University staff will be able to analyze the behavior of gamers and ask them questions about how they feel.

This is 96.5% of the revenue of the entire Starbreeze company. Compared to last year, sales of the series fell, but only slightly — by 9%.

The creators of the NashStore did not tell how many people are currently using the Russian mobile marketplace.

The South Korean company announced that it will support local indie developers who want to enter the global market. Kakao Games will invest in them through a fund created by Kona Venture Partners.

Perforce Software interviewed 300 developers from different countries. It turned out that almost half of them doubt that NFT will be able to change the gaming industry by 2025. At the same time, 56% of respondents believe in the potential of the metaverse.

Data attribution service Tenjin estimated that Android games accounted for 54% of advertising revenue in April-June 2022. For comparison, two years ago they accounted for only 40%.

According to Axios, the US federal court issued decisions on August 10 and 16. For the first time, he refused to consider a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard in summary proceedings. And for the second time, he did not agree that the plaintiffs from DFEH violated ethics by hiring lawyers who previously worked at the EEOC.

A month ago, an outsourcer with Ukrainian roots, Room 8 Group, announced the launch of a mobile game development division. Now the company has officially introduced the first studio in its composition — Solid Bash.

This was told by journalist Gary Whitta (Gary Whitta) as part of the podcast Kinda Funny Games. He did not go into details of the agreement and did not disclose his source.

The developers of the game about the possessed sheep boasted of success on Twitter. There they thanked the gamers and informed them that they were engaged in patches and content updates.

Analyst Bryan Kraft from Deutsche Bank studied Take-Two‘s latest financial report and stated that the company’s shares lack a “material catalyst” for growth.

According to Nikkei, the company will start using the new boxes in August.

Analysts did not say exactly how much the genre will earn. But according to their data, 63% of revenue will go to mobile games, another 21% to console games, and 16% to PC titles.

Swedish gaming firms, members of the Game Habitat Association, have announced the launch of a joint campaign. They set a goal — to increase the number of developers in Malmo to 5 thousand people by 2030.

Developers rarely tell how their games were distributed in the Epic Games Store. However, Vertigo Gaming did not hide anything and on August 17 wrote on Twitter about the indicators Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!.

Christopher Sandberg, co-founder of Avalanche, told about this in an interview with MinnMax.

Games continue to generate most of the earnings of the Chinese NetEase. In a recent financial report, the company said that in the second quarter they accounted for 78.3% of revenue at once.

Bandai Namco shared new figures about Elden Ring as part of the financial report. She clarified that we are talking about sales of the game as of June 30.