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News May 25, 2022

CD Projekt took the license from the “School of Witchers”. Perhaps for political reasons

The Witcher School project has closed in Poland. It was a role-playing quest in the Witcher universe, the participants of which could live in a castle for a while, learn archery and fencing, as well as hunt monsters.

News May 25, 2022

CD Projekt chose neon yellow for Cyberpunk 2077, inspired by Coca-Cola

The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 use neon yellow in almost everything related to their game – from art to team announcements. The leading environment artist Michal Janiszewski spoke at the Digital Dragons conference and told why CD Projekt made this color the “calling card” of the title.

News May 25, 2022

️The Russian authorities are going to deprive IT companies that dismiss employees with Ukrainian citizenship of benefits

This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Finance. It is not specified from what moment this rule will take effect.

News May 25, 2022

Some games withdrawn from sale in the country have returned to the Russian Steam. Most likely, this is a mistake

Now Steam users from Russia can again buy FIFA 22, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Dying Light 2 and a number of other games. The Russian media were the first to draw attention to the incident. The companies themselves have not officially announced plans to return to the region.

News May 25, 2022

VK has launched a beta version of the domestic RuStore app store

In Russia, another analogue of Google Play has appeared. VK has announced the release of the RuStore beta, developed with the support of the Ministry of Finance. Now it has over 100 applications available, including 22 games (“Guild of Heroes”, “Tanks”, Shift Race and others).

News May 25, 2022

There are not enough games and discounts need to be compensated — Asian users are dissatisfied with the new PlayStation Plus subscription

The launch of Sony’s updated subscription service is not going very smoothly. On May 24, it started working in Asia, and almost immediately local users started complaining about problems.

News May 25, 2022

Big Fish Games has a new president. He became the former CEO of the gaming division of Amazon Prime

One of the unexpected appointments of the last time. Larry Plotnick was appointed to the position of president of Big Fish Games, known today for such mobile hits as Big Fish Casino, EverMerge and Jackpot Magic.

News May 25, 2022

Sony: PlayStation Network earned $14 billion in fiscal 2021

Sony is great at making money on subscriptions. This conclusion can be reached, judging by the presentation from the last public strategic meeting of the company.

News May 25, 2022

The successful start of V Rising is another victory for Tencent

Survival about vampires V Rising for the first week of sales (as part of early access) on Steam sold 1 million copies. For reference, the price tag of the game is $19.99.

News May 24, 2022

The developer of mobile Fishing Clash and Hunting Clash is dissatisfied with the revenue of games

The head of the Polish Ten Square Games Maciej Zhuzhalek (Maciej Żużałek) said this at a meeting with journalists dedicated to the results of the first quarter of 2022.

Business May 24, 2022

Azur Games has launched a program to relocate game studios for a percentage of profits

The original initiative was taken by the developer and publisher of mobile games Azur Games. He launched a relocation program for independent gaming teams. For his services, the publisher is going to take “a stipulated percentage of the studio project’s profit.”

News May 24, 2022

British indie publisher Firestoke received $2.2 million from investors

The funding round was led by the Hiro Capital fund. Together with him, Behind VC and Techstart Ventures invested in the company.

News May 24, 2022

Polish analysts recommend selling CD Projekt shares. They believe that the company will continue to get cheaper

The unsuccessful release of Cyberpunk 2077 cost the developers dearly. Since December 2020, the value of CD Projekt shares has sunk by 73.8% and it looks like it will continue to decline. DM BOŚ analysts said that there are no reasons why the situation could change yet.

News May 24, 2022

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has grown strongly online on Steam — by 1000% since last April

The PlayTracker platform drew attention to the situation. According to her, the rapid growth of online began in January 2022. If last year the average figure was kept at the level of 300-800 people, then in January the number of simultaneous Metal Gear Rising players on Steam reached two thousand.

News May 24, 2022

Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 has sold a million copies

It took the shooter a little less than a year to do this — recall that the game was released in June 2021. As noted in CI Games, sales of Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 are going faster than its predecessor.

News May 24, 2022

Elon Musk on Elden Ring: “This is the most beautiful piece of art I’ve ever seen”

Musk wrote about his attitude to the game on Twitter. He also said that he passed the Elden Ring playing as a magician, and always carried a sword or katana with him.

News May 24, 2022

Epic Games has obtained permission through the court to use its own payment system in the Android version of Bandcamp. But temporarily

Epic Games has achieved a small victory in a legal standoff with Google. At the request of the developers, the court forbade the removal of the Bandcamp music platform from Google Play for using a third—party payment system in it – at least while the proceedings are ongoing.

News May 24, 2022

Mass media: the Russian authorities are preparing to simplify the requirements for IT companies applying for a “tax maneuver”

The Government’s Commission on legislative Activity has already agreed on amendments to the tax Code prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance. This is reported by RBC.

News May 24, 2022

The former president of Nintendo of America urged companies not to oppose unions, but to “move on”

Reggie Fils-Aimé shared his opinion in a conversation with The Washington Post. He said that over a long career he had worked in many companies with trade unions. In his experience, the creation of a trade union is neither good nor bad. It’s just a situation that a manager should be able to work with.

News May 24, 2022

Activision Blizzard was accused of threatening employees and violating their rights. The company denies this

Six months ago, the Communications Workers of America union said that Activision Blizzard allegedly illegally monitors its employees, threatens them and prohibits discussing a number of issues related to working in the company. For example, the salary and working conditions. He also pointed out that the policy regarding social networks is too broad.