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News June 8, 2022

Microsoft has announced that it will reduce its business in Russia

Microsoft has decided to significantly reduce its presence in Russia, Bloomberg reports, citing a statement from the corporation. She cited “changes in economic prospects” as the reason.

News June 8, 2022

Keywords Studios has agreed to purchase the authors of Age of Empires remasters

The Keywords Studios Group of companies is preparing for a new purchase. She signed an agreement with Forgotten Empires, who worked on the remasters of Age of Empires. The maximum value of the transaction is $32.5 million.

News June 8, 2022

Over the year, the capitalization of ByteDance fell by $ 100 billion. One of the reasons is that the company has not entered the stock exchange

ByteDance shareholders aren’t too happy that TikTok’s parent company hasn’t gone public yet. According to the SCMP portal, over the past year, the market value of ByteDance has decreased from $400 billion to $300 billion.

News June 8, 2022

A Saudi Arabian company has bought a stake in Embracer Group for $1 billion

Embracer Group has signed a deal with Savvy Gaming Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. It sold 8.1% of standard and 5.4% of voting shares, receiving 10.3 billion Swedish kronor ($1.05 billion) in return

News June 8, 2022

Solana launched a $100 million fund to invest in blockchain startups from South Korea

One blockchain fund has become more. The Solana platform has announced that it will begin to financially support South Korean developers specializing in NFT, GameFi and DeFi.

News June 8, 2022

Sergey Mironov called for banning children’s games promoting fascism

The head of the Fair Russia — For Truth party, Sergei Mironov, said that recently websites with games for children of “extremist orientation created in Ukraine with the support of American special services” began to appear on the network. The politician did not like the situation, so he suggested that Roskomnadzor ban all such projects.

News June 8, 2022

IDC: sales of Meta Quest 2 approached 15 million copies

Meta Quest 2 continues to hold the title of the best-selling VR headset in the world. IDC has estimated that 14.8 million people have bought the device since its release in October 2020.

News June 8, 2022

Omni Creator Products has raised $16.25 million to develop platforms for creating games

The money was given by the Games Fund One fund, which was launched last month by the venture capital company Andreessen Horowitz.

News June 8, 2022

Horizon Forbidden West has returned to the top spot in the UK retail chart

GfK revealed which games sold best in UK retail last week.

News June 8, 2022

Honor of Kings will receive a new global version

It will be published by Level Infinite, the “daughter” of Tencent, which specializes in publishing the company’s games abroad. According to the publisher, the first closed beta test of the western Honor of Kings will be held next month, and the official release will take place towards the end of the year.

Vacancies June 7, 2022

Vacancies of the week: Dankolab, Daily Magic and WN Media Group are looking for employees

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a data analyst at Dankolab, a senior-level C++ developer at Daily Magic and an editor of a B2B publication (App2Top.ru ) in WN Media Group.

News June 7, 2022

The audience of Two Point Hospital has reached 5 million people

The heads of Two Point Studios mentioned the achievement of the hospital simulator in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz . They stated that they initially expected to sell only 650 thousand copies of Two Point Hospital, but thanks to the release of the Game Pass, they were able to interest significantly more people.

News June 7, 2022

Animoca Brands has invested in 340 blockchain gaming companies. The value of these assets is $1.5 billion

Animoca Brands has shared its financial report. In particular, she said that during her entire work (and until April 30, 2022), she managed to make over three hundred investments in cryptocurrency and blockchain gaming companies.

News June 7, 2022

Chinese authorities have allowed 60 more games to be released, including a new title from miHoYo

In China, they did not arrange another “freeze” with the issuance of licenses for online games. Today, the government has published a new list of projects approved for release in the country. This is reported by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

News June 7, 2022

Apple named the games with the best design. Among them is Overboard! and LEGO Star Wars: Castaways

Apple has summed up the results of the Apple Design Award 2022. She published a list with applications that she considered the best in terms of design. This year it included six games.

News June 7, 2022

iOS 16 supports Nintendo Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers

On June 6, Apple opened the WWDC 2022 conference, during which, among other things, it announced iOS 16. Soon one of the developers noticed that the beta of the new version of the operating system supports controllers for the Nintendo Switch.

News June 7, 2022

Media: Nintendo has founded a new subsidiary. She specializes in movies and TV series

According to the VGC portal, the new company is called Nintendo Studios. Mention of it was found on the website of the US Copyright Office — in documents dedicated to the upcoming animated film based on Super Mario.

News June 7, 2022

Keywords Studios testers have officially joined a trade union

A new gaming union has appeared. Yesterday, employees of the outsourcer Keywords Studios voted unanimously for the merger.

News June 7, 2022

The internal studio of Annapurna Interactive was headed by the game director of Solar Ash and What Remains of Edith Finch

Indie publisher Annapurna Interactive is still going to start developing games. The company announced the launch of an internal studio in October 2020, but only now has hired employees for key positions.

News June 7, 2022

Group-IB warned about scammers cheating with payment in the PlayStation Store and a number of mobile games

In March, many gaming companies left Russia and disabled payments for local gamers in their projects. Scammers decided to take advantage of this. The Group-IB company found 246 sites where it is allegedly possible to buy in—game currency or cards to replenish the wallet in the PlayStation Store – with their help, attackers steal bank card data.