The French gaming holding company Focus Entertainment reported for April-June. In three months, the holding earned €38.2 million. Most of the revenue is provided by the initial sales of the pixel bitmap Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s revenge.

The young studio FlyinDogs is preparing to release a narrative novel in the Slavic setting of The Tales of Bayun. We asked its founder Ilya Maksimenko to tell us about the team and the work on the project.

All official web forums of the Borderlands developer series will be closed in August 2022. Now they have switched to the “read-only” status. Communication with players goes to social networks.

An outsourcer with Ukrainian roots, Room 8 Studio, announced a rebranding and significant changes in the company’s business structure.

Another news on the topic of gaming NFT. A curious interview with the developers of the mobile game Aglet was released on GamesBeat. This is a geolocation project in the spirit of Pokémon Go, but about pumping and collecting sneakers (not to be confused with the sensational STEPN).

Tim Sweeney, the head of Epic Games, said that the company is not going to prohibit the distribution of games that have NFT functionality on the Epic Games Store. In his opinion, it is wrong to interfere in the way developers create games.

On Wednesday, the Minecraft developer published an appeal to the players. In it, she said that she was in the process of updating user guidelines. In light of this, the company decided to clarify its attitude to NFT. She’s against them. Mojang is not going to support them or allow them into Minecraft. The statement caused a resonance.

Last night Ubisoft published a financial report for April-June. Within its framework, it became known that the company is not doing well. She is forced to radically optimize and cut her expenses.

However, supply has not kept pace with demand. If since the beginning of hostilities, the number of proposals to bypass official payment schemes for video games has increased by 3-11%, then the demand for them has increased by 24-52%.

Since July, all technology platforms that want to work in Indonesia must officially register a business in the country in accordance with the new licensing rules. Those who refused will be blocked. But those who agree will come under stricter control of the authorities.

Swedish publisher Stillfront Group has published a financial report for the second quarter of 2022. Judging by it, April-June passed very successfully for the company. For example, net revenue during this time jumped by 31% compared to last year.

Back in May, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced that the Russian mobile marketplace RuStore will be pre-installed on smartphones within the country. Today, the agency published a draft Government decree, in which it officially proposed to add RuStore to the list of mandatory applications.

Leslie Benzies, former president of Rockstar North, is building up the staff of his studio Build A Rocket Boy. He hired three veterans of the gaming industry at once.

In January-June 2022, China’s gaming market earned ¥147.7 billion ($21.8 billion), declining by 1.8% year-on-year. This was the first drop since 2008, when the Chinese Association of Audio—Video and Digital Publishers began publishing data on the local market.

Chinese authorities have allowed NetEase to publish Diablo Immortal, according to Bloomberg sources. While it is assumed that the release will take place on July 25, but “at the last minute” the date may change.

The Hand of Midas Foundation, opened by the founder of Xsolla, supported OnlySpace, a young publisher specializing in the metaverse and NFT. He invested $2.25 million in the startup. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Ken Akamatsu is a Japanese manga artist who recently won a seat in the House of Councillors of Japan. He held a stream on YouTube, during which he promised to try to legally preserve the gaming legacy for posterity.

Last year, residents of the Middle East and North Africa spent $1.6 billion in mobile games, analysts found data.ai . The most generous were gamers from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel. They left $546 million, $176 million and $162 million in games, respectively.

TikTok‘s parent company continues to get cheaper. According to Bloomberg, ByteDance is valued at $275 billion in the secondary market — last year its capitalization reached $ 460 billion.