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.

Xbox consoles managed to beat PlayStation for weekly sales in Japan for the second time in a month and a half. According to Famitsu, last week the Japanese bought 6695 copies of the Xbox Series and 3035 copies of the PlayStation 5.

Mobile developer Tripledot Studios, known for Woodoku and PuzzleTime puzzles, has received a new achievement. He took third place in The Growth 100 ranking compiled by FEBE, a list of hundreds of British public companies whose sales have grown the most in two years.

This is reported by the business portal Bankier.pl . According to him, at the beginning of the first day of trading, Games Box shares fell sharply to 8.5 zlotys or $1.9 apiece. Because of what exactly this happened is unclear.

On June 17, a game developed by students of the University of Breda appeared on Steam. This is a free first-person shooter Alien Removal Division about aliens who have captured a secret military research center. As the students boast, more than 30 thousand people downloaded their game in a week.

The Rec Room platform, whose users can create their own virtual worlds, has turned six years old. In honor of this, the developers shared several figures.

In March, hackers stole $625 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Axie Infinity game. Sky Mavis has promised to compensate users before, but now it has named a specific date — June 28.

The slots category invariably attracts a large number of viewers on Twitch. Every month during 2022, she got into the top 15 in terms of the number of views, but in May for the first time she was able to take the ninth place in the chart. This was mentioned in the joint report by StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg .

TikTok‘s parent company receives a good income from mobile games, despite problems with the gaming business. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that for the period from June 21, 2021 to June 20, 2022, the total revenue of its titles exceeded $ 1 billion, and downloads — 139 million.

The head of Electronic Arts is not the only head of a large gaming company whose annual bonuses have recently been reduced. Axios has noticed that Yves Guillemot from Ubisoft has also reduced the size of his bonus payments. Next year he will receive €310,607 less than before.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a leading level designer at DouDouGames, a VFX artist at Playrix and a Unity developer at Siklarda.

There is another studio from veterans of the gaming industry — Liithos. It was founded by John Garvin, creative director of Days Gone, and Michael Mumbauer, former head of That’s No Moon and Visual Arts Service Group.

The Japanese company Square Enix held a shareholders’ meeting at which it shared its plans for the future. Among other things, she mentioned that she was going to create NFTs that would be written into the plots of the games.

Another analytical company has published a study. Newzoo tried to find out what the audience of video games in the USA looks like now. We have selected the main thing from the report.