Next week — November 23-24 — the next WN Conference will be held in Israel. The final version of the program is already available on the event website. What to pay attention to in it is in our material.

The parent company of the authors of Free Fire has published a financial report for the third quarter of 2022. For her gaming division, this period did not go very well.

According to Reuters, citing sources close to the company, the layoffs affect half of Tencent‘s divisions, including gaming.

Multiplying the number of reviews by a certain average value for the market is one of the easiest ways to roughly estimate the sales of a game on Steam. Gaming expert Simon Carless made adjustments to this system and updated the median multipliers for games with different runs.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group has agreed to purchase the Jumpship studio. He publicly announced the deal on the day of the release of Somerville, the company’s debut game.

It surpassed almost all games released in 2022 in terms of physical sales in the UK in its debut week. According to GfK, only FIFA 23 sold better at the start.

The network noticed a Sony patent for a system that can use the blockchain to track the history of in-game objects like skins, objects or characters. The company filed a patent in May 2021, but it has only now appeared in the public domain.

Sharon Tal Yguado, former vice president of Fox Network Group and program director of Amazon Studios, announced the launch of her own game studio — Astrid Entertainment. She also said that she has already attracted “seven-figure” investments from NetEase and a number of other companies.

On November 14, an appeal hearing was held in the case of Epic Games and Apple. Both companies tried to refute the court’s decision made last September

The studio that worked with Green Grey announced the attraction of new investments. Infusion Games managed to “raise” a little more than $0.8 million from various sources.

Game designer Chris Avellone continues to try to defend his reputation. The Madison County Record portal noticed that the developer recently filed another lawsuit against Karissa Barrows, a woman who accused him of harassment in 2020.

The global VR market is on the rise. According to the forecast of Newzoo analysts, in two years its revenue will exceed $ 3 billion, despite the fact that in 2019 it was only $ 0.5 billion.

A new round in the history of Game Insight. The procedure of its bankruptcy in Russia has started. The company still owes partners and former employees 142 million rubles, which it does not have. The management faces criminal prosecution.

The French publisher Homa (formerly Homa Games) decided to pay more attention to the blockchain. The company is going to add tools for creating web3 projects to its technology stack.

The first half of fiscal 2023 turned out to be more successful for Bandai Namco than the company expected. The Japanese publisher beat its forecast by ¥47.6 billion or $340 million at the current exchange rate.

The VR market managed to achieve an “explosive” investment growth, not least thanks to the support from the authorities, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China reported.

Hideo Kojima spoke about his desire during the Anan Awards ceremony in Japan, where he was awarded for his work on Death Stranding. The game designer said that in the “digital environment” everything is connected to each other.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 45th week of the year.

The State Duma deputy criticized the proposal to ban games in Russia with propaganda of cruelty, LGBT and many other things, God of War: Ragnarök showed the largest launch in the series in British retail, and Nintendo began to refuse to repair devices to toxic Japanese gamers — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.