A company with Russian roots UNIGINE has released a major update for the engine of the same name. In particular, she added an Asset Store to the platform. So far, it contains only free assets of UNIGINE itself, but since November, all users will be able to upload assets to the store.

American indie publisher WhiteThorn Games called on the gaming industry to become more transparent. He decided to start with himself and published some of the data related to the company’s business.

French DON’T NOD (formerly Dontnod Entertainment) summed up the financial results of the first six months of 2022.

The corporation said that the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) does not have enough grounds to launch a more detailed investigation. She believes that the regulator has not been critical enough of Sony‘s position.

According to Crunchbase, the current funding round has become the third and largest for Homa. In total, to date, investors have invested $ 165 million in the publisher of mobile games.

The company stated that Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier did not meet her expectations. The Battle Royale servers will be shut down on January 11, 2023.

Strauss Zelnick believes that, in general, not all game franchises are suitable for mobile devices. In his opinion, so far only one company has managed to successfully transfer the franchise to smartphones — Activision Blizzard with its Call of Duty.

Strauss Zelnick said in an interview with TheWrap that this deal will benefit both Microsoft itself and the entire gaming industry.

Meta* boasted about the achievements of the store at the Connect 2022 conference. She said that to date, every third game from the Quest Store library has earned at least $ 1 million, and the revenue of 33 projects has exceeded $ 10 million.

The Meta company banned in Russia has announced the purchase of three game development studios at once. The amount and terms of the transactions were not disclosed.

This is stated in the documents that Snail provided to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Journalist Tom Henderson, citing his sources, said that the company expects to sell 18 million consoles in fiscal 2022. This means that according to Sony‘s plan, PS5 shipments will grow by 70% in 2023.

According to the French newspaper Les Echos, against the background of the deal, the market value of Shiro Games increased to € 150 million.

The forecast was published by Statista analysts. In the report, they noted that the turnover of this market exceeded the milestone of $ 100 million only in 2022.

SCMP journalists suggest that such a demand for a VR headset is largely due to the fact that it is impossible to officially buy Quest 2* in China.

Sandy Petersen shared his opinion back in September. He wrote on Twitter that Doom II was done so that developers could get “quick money” and use assets from the first part. In addition, this way the designers could do something while they were working on Quake.

Mike Minton stated this during TwitchCon. According to him, the distribution of income under the 70/30 scheme will allow everyone to “earn as long as possible.”

The attackers got into the hands of email addresses, identification numbers, game tags and information about which consoles gamers use. However, according to 2K, hackers were unable to get hold of passwords and financial information.

Such data was shared by David Gibson from MST Financial. According to him, in September Sony shipped about 7.5 thousand tons of consoles to the United States.