Valve is not only satisfied with the sales of its gaming PC, but was also able to adjust and accelerate its production after freezing the process in early June.

About this, with reference to the words of Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), writes the Kommersant newspaper, which also revealed the budget of the entire game in its entirety.

Sources of the Belarusian edition dev.by assure that there are major cuts in Playgendary. The company denies significant one-time layoffs.

Digital Bros is consolidating the rights to the Puzzle Quest franchise in its hands. Now, in addition to Infinity Plus Two, D3 Go is in its assets.

Over the weekend, the story spread that Cyberpunk 2077 came out raw due to an unscrupulous QA contractor, Quantic Labs. They say that she did a bad job with testing the game, deceived the leadership of the Polish studio and, in general, let the developers down.

The organizers of the WN Conference announced the format of closed round tables. It is focused exclusively on top managers of gaming companies and assumes the absence of listeners.

Another Russian studio has announced cuts. Moscow Tipping Point, which worked on the Mech Invasion geolocation battler, has been disbanded. At least 21 people will lose their jobs.

A post about the company’s volunteer culture has appeared on the website of the Yakut developer Fntastic. It also offers to help the company with translation and the community on a non-commercial basis.

There was information that at one time Activision Blizzard was negotiating the purchase of Dota 2. The deal did not take place. One of the reasons is that the parties did not agree on the price.

Despite the fact that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have services that open subscription access to games, there is no need to talk about a high level of penetration of the service even in Japan.

About 29% of Tencent‘s shares belong to the South African media group Naspers. And she’s going to get rid of them. This affects the price of Tencent.

Last week, the Steam release of the Raft survival took place. The discount, the joy of fans from the event, as well as an advertising campaign on Twitch allowed the project of the Swedish indie studio Redbeet Interactive to reach 100 thousand people online on Sunday.

The new Blizzard game remains not only in the focus of attention, but also under fire from critics. According to new data, in order to pump one game character, it will take not $ 100 thousand, as previously thought, but as much as $ 540 thousand.

We are discussing which project earned the most money on Steam in the 25th week of the year.

The Danish studio SYBO, famous for the Subway Surfers runner, now belongs to the Swiss Miniclip, whose majority owner, in turn, is the Chinese Tencent.

Russian gamers have become more economical. This conclusion was reached by the specialists of the Moscow Credit Bank (MKB), who studied the expenses of their customers for the first five months of 2022.

Yesterday VK announced a change in the commission policy of the VK Play platform, whose store component is the Russian equivalent of Steam. Now developers can count on 95% of the sales of games hosted on the site. We talked in detail about the nuances of the initiative with Rodion Kotelnikov, CTO VK Play.

343 Industries is thinking about the appearance of microtransactions in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The developers wrote in a blog that they are going to rename the seasonal glasses issued for passing the tests into “Spartan glasses”. Later they will be allowed to buy them for real money.