According to Kotaku, American Nintendo has taken seriously the recent news that women may be harassed in the company. Its president Doug Bowser wrote a letter to employees, assuring them that he would conduct a thorough check.

Another Supercell game will never come out of the softlonch. Finnish developers announced that Clash Quest did not meet the company’s “very high” standards.

As part of the rebranding, Asmodee Digital decided to change its business strategy. Now she will pay more attention to original video games, rather than titles developed on the basis of board games.

Boss Factory has reached this mark in two months. The success of the game became known from the Embracer Group quarterly report.

Today, Embracer Group also reported for the fiscal quarter ended June 30. Let’s briefly go through the main figures.

The Swedish holding paid a total of $576.3 million for them. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.

According to Modulate, a tool called ToxMod analyzes not only the words in gamers’ speech, but also their emotional tone. This makes it possible to detect toxic behavior with 98% accuracy.

The game took a little less than two months to reach this mark. Recall that Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes was released on June 24 exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.

A culinary simulator from the Polish Big Cheese Studio appeared as part of the Game Pass on August 11. It was a good deal for the developers. As they noted in the report for investors, the $600 thousand received is about 22% of the studio’s revenue for the previous fiscal year.

The Polish Bloober Team mentioned this achievement as part of the financial report for the first half of 2022. The studio did not disclose the circulation of other games, but noted that The Medium and Observer: System Redux consistently show good sales.

In the second quarter, Tencent‘s revenue fell 3% to $20 billion. Most likely, this is due to the consequences of lockdowns, the company’s lack of new licenses to publish games in China and strict control by the country’s authorities.

On April 25, VK launched a beta version of the VK Play gaming platform. Until today, only legal entities could publish on it.

This is reported by CNews. According to the publication, the company sold Nexters Studio for 200 rubles, Nexters Online and Lightmap for 100 rubles each and 70% in Gamepositive for another 100 rubles.

Two days ago, the Call of Duty Twitter account announced a new operative skin — Doomsayer. But gamers quickly noted its similarity to the Variant 402 skin from the game Deadrop, which is being developed by the Midnight Society studio.

The Communications Workers of America union has filed a new complaint against Activision Blizzard. He stated that the publisher illegally monitored employees during the July strike.

Freelance employees of the Nintendo Of America QA department told Kotaku about the unhealthy situation inside the company.

The new publisher is called Paradox Arc. He is going to publish deep and replayable titles from small studios.

In May App2Top.ru published his own analysis of the merge-games market. Not all market participants agreed with our conclusions at that time. The answer to that material can be considered the current AppMagic study. Its authors look at the prospects of the genre differently.

The growth of the German gaming market has slowed down. The Game Association reported that its revenue for the first half of the year increased by only 2%. For comparison: last year the growth was 22%.