The Chinese giant NetEase summed up the financial results of the first quarter of 2022. During the reporting period, its gaming revenue increased by 15.3%, not least due to the successes of Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Ghost World Chronicle and Naraka: Bladepoin (however, the company did not share figures for these titles).

Studio 343 Industries continues to lose developers. Now Jerry Hook has announced his departure.

The Belgian government is going to support game developers. The authorities want to provide studios with so—called “tax shelters” – benefits that allow them to reduce taxes or evade their payment.

Mobile Apex Legends revenue is growing rapidly. As calculated in Sensor Tower, in seven days from the moment of release, the Battle royale earned $ 4.8 million. However, this is $10 million less than Call of Duty: Mobile helped out at the time.

Electronic Arts (EA), unlike Bungie, is not going to speak on behalf of the company about the possible abolition of the right to abortion in the United States. She also has no plans to comment on transgender rights. As Kotaku found out, the publisher outlined his position during a recent staff meeting.

The head of Epic Games gave a big interview to the Financial Times, in which he also touched on the topic of the metaverse. Tim Sweeney indicated that he doubts the potential of metaverse projects designed exclusively for business meetings.

During the presentation to investors, Sony also mentioned the sales of its PC games. Apparently, Horizon Zero Dawn is showing the greatest success so far.

Sony held a presentation for investors on the development strategy. Among other things, she said that she intends to continue developing towards cross-platform, going beyond consoles and stopping “limiting herself to a rather narrow part of the market.”

The other day, Asian players started complaining about the new version of PlayStation Plus launched in the region. Allegedly, when switching to more advanced levels, users need to pay extra if they bought a subscription with a discount in the past. Now Sony has stated that everything happened because of problems in the operation of the service.

This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the President of the Russian Federation of Computer Sports Dmitry Smith. According to him, recognition will allow holding official competitions on the territory of the country like the Cup of Russia for games included in the discipline program.

Last night, Valve seems to have fixed a bug thanks to which players from Russia could buy games “banned” for them on Steam.

The developer of social casinos Huuuge Games has published financial results for the first quarter of 2022. Against the background of declining revenues of the flagship games Billionaire Casino and Huuuge Casino, the revenue of the entire company also fell by 12.2% to $84 million.

By the end of 2022, the turnover of mobile games will exceed $136 billion. This is almost two-thirds of the entire gaming market.

A new selection of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a producer at Geeky House and a recruiter with knowledge of English at WN Media Group.

Expected news from data.ai (formerly App Annie). The weekly revenue of mobile games in Eastern Europe has significantly decreased in recent months — from $50 million to $30 million. Of course, because of Russia.

This is stated on the official website of the group of companies. The remaining money (135.19 million zlotys or $31.27 million) is proposed to be sent to the reserve fund.

This figure was shared by Tim Cook’s company in a recent report prepared by Analysis Group analysts on its order. Note that by “small” developers, Apple understands those who earn less than a million dollars a year.

According to Niantic, the startup joined it back in February, but until that moment the deal was not officially announced. However, the terms and the amount for which SpotX Games was purchased are still not disclosed.

Some former and current Activision Blizzard employees felt that the publisher was not doing enough to combat discrimination. Therefore, they decided to create a special committee themselves and monitor the company’s actions.