The Novosibirsk School of the Olympic Reserve in shooting sports will now prepare for the esports championships. According to Vesti Novosibirsk, the country’s first esports school has opened on its basis.

Square Enix has introduced the Live Interactive Works Game Development Crew (LIW GDC), a community for game bloggers and streamers who want to test new projects of the Japanese publisher and comment on them.

The South Korean gaming market is the fourth largest in the world. Newzoo estimates that he earned $8.3 billion last year. Analysts also noted that only 38% of local gamers spent money in games.

Despite the current decline in the cryptocurrency market, game studios continue to receive money from investors for blockchain projects. This time, the funding round was announced by UnCaged Studios, which is developing a football MonkeyLeague within the framework of the “play to earn” concept.

Asia remains the largest esports market. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, last year the turnover of the global esports market reached $1.1 billion — Asian countries were responsible for $634.3 million of this amount.

Hypemasters studio has been working on the mobile strategy of World War Armies for two years. One of the main challenges for her was to create an interface. It was necessary to find a compromise between classic PC strategy management and convenience. What compromises had to be made for this, — said Boris Kiselyov, director of the studio for UX.

After the rumors about the dismissal of the Gigaya team and the change in Unity strategy, some developers decided to ask the company how things were going with the project. The answer was disappointing. The company confirmed that it was stopping work on the platformer, which was supposed to clearly show how the engine works.

John Riccitiello, who heads Unity, responded to the criticism of developers regarding the merger of his company with ironSource. In an interview with PocketGamer.biz he stated that the developers who do not think about monetization at the early stages of creating the game are “wonderful people, but they are also damn idiots.”

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week we are looking for: a game designer at ZiMAD, a BI developer at Dankolab and a 2D concept environment artist at ExoGenesis.

The capitalization of CD PROJEKT continues to fall. According to Business Insider, the market value of the developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 dropped below 10 billion zlotys or $2.08 billion. After that, CD PROJEKT lost the title of the most expensive Polish gaming company.

This fall, a discipline “Video Games as literature” will appear in one of the Oregon schools. The teacher under the nickname AnonymousCerealBowl told on Reddit that he was able to interest the management in his idea and has already received a grant for $ 10 thousand.

Tencent has abandoned NFT functions on the Tencent News platform, Blue Whale Finance reports. This became known after the holding, together with 30 other Chinese companies, promised to stop secondary trading in non-interchangeable tokens.

Japanese company Dynamo Pictures, engaged in computer graphics, will soon become part of Nintendo. After that, it will be called Nintendo Pictures and will focus on developing “visual content” for the Nintendo franchises.

After Twitch refused to delete illegal information, Roskomnadzor ordered search engines to mark the platform as a violator of Russian laws. The agency says that the requirement will be canceled as soon as Twitch corrects itself and removes all unnecessary.

Huawei has decided to modify the AppGallery app store. According to a number of media reports, the company is going to launch a system that will itself set an age rating for products.

The industrial giant Tencent has stopped aggressively buying up companies and shares in them against the background of the toughened position of the Chinese authorities, writes the SCMP business portal. In January-June, the holding made only 32 transactions — in the first half of 2021 there were 129 of them.

Today, July 14, the series Resident Evil premiered on Netflix. In honor of this, Capcom decided to talk about the excellent sales of the Resident Evil 2 remake — more than 10 million copies since its release in January 2019.

Unity investors did not appreciate the news about the upcoming merger with ironSource. During the day, the company’s stock price decreased by 17.39% to $32.82 apiece and continued to fall after the exchange closed.

The analytical company YouGov, with the support of Globant, decided to find out what Americans think about the metaverse. She interviewed a thousand gamers from the United States aged 18 and older who spend more than three hours a week playing games.