Despite this, sales of the sports simulator for the week decreased by 54%, GfK noted. The next three lines in the chart have not changed either. They still have physical editions of LEGO Star Wars on them: The Skywalker Saga, Horizon Forbidden West and Mario Kart 8: Deluxe.

The head of the Ministry of Finance Maksut Shadaev sent a letter with such a proposal to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko at the end of April. But the letter got to the disposal of the media only now, its contents were shared by Kommersant.

There are a lot of changes in the latest Steam bestseller chart. The Overlord add—on for Stellaris, released at the end of the week, was among the leaders – it took second place immediately after Steam Deck, which topped the ranking for the fifth week in a row. Red Dead Redemption 2 also returned to the chart.

This was stated by the Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion, in the program “The Church and the World” on the TV channel “Russia 24”.

Activision Blizzard showed a tool for assessing the “diversity” of characters, Krafton reported record revenue, and data appeared that almost 900 thousand applications could disappear from Google Play — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Epic Games has taken another step towards the metaverse. The head of the company, Tim Sweeny, said in an interview with FastCompany that by the end of 2022, an editor will appear in Fortnite that will provide players with “all the capabilities of the Unreal Engine” to create content.

Now the Nintendo Switch is considered the fourth best-selling console in the history of the American market. Only PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii are ahead of it. This conclusion is shared by analysts from the NPD Group.

In June, a new book about game design from the American indie developer Robert Zubek will be on sale. It is called “Elements of Game Design” and is an introductory guide. In it, the author not only explains the theory, but also offers practical exercises. We tell you more about the book and share the first chapter.

This is reported by TASS with reference to the technical director of the social network Alexander Tobol. According to him, such a marketplace will allow VKontakte users to monetize author’s content — for example, they will be able to sell stickers in the form of NFT.

This is almost half of the Japanese company’s gaming revenue, according to a report by Square Enix for the last fiscal year. In total, the publisher earned $ 2.17 billion from the games (6% more compared to 2020).

Yesterday, Bethesda announced that it is postponing the release of Starfield and Redfall for the first half of 2023. Soon, the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, decided to comment on the transfer.

Finnish Remedy is another gaming company that has shared a financial report. She said that the first quarter of 2022 was quite successful. Revenue amounted to €12.6 million, and operating profit reached €2.7 million.

New week – new vacancies. This week they are wanted: an art director at Dankolab, a game designer at ZiMAD and a developer at Unreal Engine (Multiplayer) at Joy Way.

Sega Sammy has published a report for the fiscal year 2022, which ended on March 31. In it, the company, among other things, mentioned the successes of the main IP.

The Korean gaming market became the fourth largest by revenue in the world in 2021, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com . It accounted for over 6% of the total turnover. There were more only in the USA, China and Japan.

Wata Games is a company evaluating the condition of sealed cartridges with retro games. A year ago, she got into the center of a scandal because of fraud. Allegedly, she, along with the Heritage Auctions auction site, manipulated prices on the market.

Newzoo has published the top 10 public companies by gaming revenue for 2021. She also estimated that last year these companies earned a total of $126 billion — 10.2% more than in 2020. For comparison, the annual revenue of the entire gaming market amounted to $192.7 billion.

According to Sensor Tower analysts, only four mobile games managed to overcome the $8 billion revenue milestone. These are Honor of Kings, Monster Strike, Clash of Clans, and now PUBG Mobile.

The last two weeks in the United States have been hotly discussing the possible abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. Jim Ryan, the head of Sony’s gaming division, did not stand aside either.