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Riot Games helped launch an educational technology center for children, Steam allowed adding free games and DLC to the library without automatic downloading, and scientists found that good managers come out of good players in Civilization — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

News August 12, 2022

Gaming outsourcer Virtuos has opened an office in Malaysia

The office is located in Kuala Lumpur, and its management has already enlisted the support of the Malaysian government.

News August 12, 2022

Games from RuStore are most actively downloaded by residents of the republics of Altai and Khakassia

RuStore looked at how different categories of mobile applications are treated in Russian regions. In particular, he gave statistics on games.

News August 12, 2022

Remedy reported a quarterly loss of €2.4 million. Its shares fell by 3.7%

The Finnish Remedy did not have the best second quarter. The company reported that it closed it with a loss of € 2.4 million, although last year at the same time it was able to make a profit of €1.5 million.

News August 12, 2022

The peak online Cult of the Lamb at the start exceeded 60 thousand people

Cult of the Lamb was released yesterday — a “bagel” about an possessed sheep who is trying to found a demonic cult. According to SteamDB, 61,780 Steam users played it at the same time on the premiere day.

News August 12, 2022

Media: Google is testing the function of launching cloud games directly from the search engine

The innovation was noticed by blogger Bryant Chappel. He managed to launch games through Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming by simply typing the title name into the Google search engine.

News August 12, 2022

Epic Games Store and Origin are back online in Indonesia

Epic Games and Electronic Arts have fulfilled the requirements of the Indonesian authorities by registering their stores in the database of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the country.

Our research August 12, 2022

Poll: How much do people earn in the gaming industry in Cyprus?

On the eve of the autumn WN Conference, which will be held in Limassol on September 8-9, App2Top.ru and Talents In Games is conducting a survey on the salary level in the gaming industry in Cyprus.

News August 12, 2022

Krafton: PUBG attracts over 80 thousand new players every day

A new day is a new financial report. South Korean Krafton shared the results of the first half of 2022, reporting record net profit and success of PUBG.

News August 12, 2022

The producer of Resident Evil and Devil May Cry left Capcom. Now it will work in NetEase

Formally, Hiroyuki Kobayashi left the Japanese company on March 31, but until today he has not publicly announced this.

News August 12, 2022

Tower of Fantasy topped the download charts among iOS games in the USA, Japan, South Korea

On August 11, the global release of the Tower of Fantasy MMORPG, resembling the sci-fi version of Genshin Impact, took place. After that, the title immediately broke into the top 10 most downloaded games in the App Store in 90 countries of the world, and in the USA, Japan, South Korea, and even took first place.

News August 12, 2022

“This is a part of the game that users love”: EA will add loot boxes to FIFA 23, despite criticism

Electronic Arts (EA) has repeatedly faced criticism of loot boxes, however, the company does not intend to abandon their sale. In a statement to Eurogamer, she said that she does not want to deprive players of the opportunity to spend money if they want to.

News August 12, 2022

Unity has signed a multimillion—dollar contract with CACI International, a technology supplier for the US Department of Defense

As part of the deal, Unity will work together with CACI International to develop human-machine interfaces. The company’s management noted that the deal is of a strategic nature — Unity hopes that in the future its engine will be used more often for projects of the US government.

News August 11, 2022

Rovio’s quarterly profit rose by 70.7%, and MARPPU reached a record high

The third news today about the finances of gaming companies. Now the report for the second quarter of 2022 has been released by Rovio.

News August 11, 2022

Newzoo: the turnover of the Spanish gaming market will reach $2.38 billion by the end of the year

Newzoo analysts have studied the situation on the Spanish gaming market. According to their data, there are now 31.7 million gamers in the country, of which 83% not only play, but are also actively interested in the industry as a whole.

News August 11, 2022

The appeal hearing in the case of Epic Games and Apple will be held on October 21

In two months, a new hearing will take place in the scope of the proceedings between Epic Games and Apple. The companies will have 20 minutes each to protest the court decision made a year ago.

News August 11, 2022

Soedesco bought the Spanish VR studio Superlumen for an unknown amount

The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. It should be noted that this purchase will allow Soedesco to gain a foothold in the Spanish market — in the spring, the Dutch publisher launched its first foreign publishing division in Madrid.

News August 11, 2022

Media: God of War: Ragnarök “scares” publishers and forces them to shift game releases

Journalist Tim Gettys during the podcast Kinda Funny Games stated that some publishers are “afraid” to release games simultaneously with the release of God of War: Ragnarö k. Companies want to give Tom more space to avoid competition.

News August 11, 2022

Riot Games: representatives of minorities receive the same salary as other employees of the company

Every year Riot Games tells how the company is doing with diversity. In a recent report, she touched on the topic of salaries. Riot Games stated that it no longer sees a statistically significant difference in the incomes of women and minorities compared to other employees in the same positions.

Steam Sales Chart: Spider-Man remaster became the most successful game of the week

The main thing for the weekend (August 13-14)

Gaming outsourcer Virtuos has opened an office in Malaysia

Games from RuStore are most actively downloaded by residents of the republics of Altai and Khakassia

Remedy reported a quarterly loss of €2.4 million. Its shares fell by 3.7%

The peak online Cult of the Lamb at the start exceeded 60 thousand people

Media: Google is testing the function of launching cloud games directly from the search engine

Epic Games Store and Origin are back online in Indonesia

Poll: How much do people earn in the gaming industry in Cyprus?

Krafton: PUBG attracts over 80 thousand new players every day

The producer of Resident Evil and Devil May Cry left Capcom. Now it will work in NetEase

Tower of Fantasy topped the download charts among iOS games in the USA, Japan, South Korea

“This is a part of the game that users love”: EA will add loot boxes to FIFA 23, despite criticism

Unity has signed a multimillion—dollar contract with CACI International, a technology supplier for the US Department of Defense

Rovio’s quarterly profit rose by 70.7%, and MARPPU reached a record high

Newzoo: the turnover of the Spanish gaming market will reach $2.38 billion by the end of the year

The appeal hearing in the case of Epic Games and Apple will be held on October 21

Soedesco bought the Spanish VR studio Superlumen for an unknown amount

Media: God of War: Ragnarök “scares” publishers and forces them to shift game releases

Riot Games: representatives of minorities receive the same salary as other employees of the company