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.

Tim Sweeney is dissatisfied with the existence of the Fortnite Token cryptocurrency. The head of Epic Games called it a fraud and said that these tokens violate the company’s copyrights. However, the creators of Fortnite Token disagree with the accusations.

In early May, Square Enix announced that it would sell Embracer Group to Crystal Dynamics studios, Eidos Montreal, Square Enix Montreal and several franchises for $300 million. The company recently clarified that it is not going to spend the funds from the transaction on NFT and blockchain, although it will now pay more attention to these areas.

She, along with Animoca Brands, Griffin Gaming Partners and a number of other investors, invested in the Oxalis Games studio. The total investment amount is $4.5 million.

The key investor was the Play Ventures venture fund. Together with him, the startup was supported by 500 Global and the founders of Next Games and Tripledot Studios.

Pokémon Go came out six years ago and is still making great money. On average, a game about pocket monsters receives $ 1 billion per year, according to Sensor Tower analysts.

Tenjin and Growth FullStack have published the full version of the mobile marketing report ahead of WWDC 2022. In particular, they said that after Apple changed its privacy policy, 63% of advertisers among games redistributed their budgets in favor of Android.

The British publisher PlayStack has announced a new purchase. He was joined by the mobile studio Magic Fuel Games, known for the games Fort Stars and Love Cooking. How much the takeover cost is not disclosed.

By the end of May App2Top.ru Together with AppMagic, I have prepared a report on the most popular and earning mobile games in the world.

On March 30, the film “Sonic 2 in the cinema” was released, which then showed the best debut in the United States among video game films. The authors of the mobile runner Sonic Forces: Speed Battle took advantage of his success. As calculated in data.ai April was the best month in the history of the game both in terms of downloads and cash.

Although Playground Games has not officially announced a new achievement of the racing game, you can see the statistics in the leaderboard inside Forza Horizon 5 itself.

Mobile Diablo Immortal faced a review-bombing on Metacritic. Gamers who were not satisfied with the monetization of the title began to write negative reviews en masse. As a result, by the morning of June 6, his rating had dropped to 0.7 points out of 10.

Starting in June, IT specialists and other highly qualified personnel can emigrate to Finland under an accelerated scheme. The authorities promise to issue a residence permit in 14 days, and not in a month, as it was earlier. This is reported by the Yle portal.

Vampire survival V Rising is selling well, but not enough for the first place in the Steam bestseller chart. At the end of last week, he gave up his place to Steam Deck. At the same time, thanks to the presentation of State of Play, a pre-order of Stray, a game about the adventures of a cat in cybergorod, burst into the last place in the chart.

PS5 sales reached the mark of 20 million copies, the head of development of Diablo Immortal was criticized for cheating with monetization, and Electronic Arts decided to support the LGBTQ+ community after all – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The CEO of Cameroonian Kiro’o Games Olivier Madiba gave a short interview to the publication PocketGamer.biz . He said that Western investors will have to change their business strategy before investing in local studios.

On June 2, NetEase and Blizzard released Diablo Immortal, the first mobile game in the history of the series. Judging by the AppMagic data, the game got off to a good start.

The South Korean organization CUCS, which defends consumer rights, has written a statement to the Seoul police against three top Google managers. Allegedly, they allowed the company to violate the local law on telecommunications business.

VK continues to combine its services. Today she announced that developers of applications for RuStore can now promote projects through the VK Advertising platform.