The British Independent Game Developers Association (TIGA) has prepared a new report on the country’s gaming industry. She estimated that last year local gaming companies brought $3.5 billion to the country’s economy — 31% more than in the period from May 2019 to April 2020.

WN Media Group has announced a new session of Talents In Games: HR Conference. Recall that this is the only conference for HR specialists of game dev. It will be held online on May 26.

As part of the financial report, Konami recalled that recently its collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel generated 30 million downloads. We decided to see how the project is doing with revenue.

Konami has revealed the results of the fiscal year 2022. It became a record for her — each category of profit (operating, pre-tax and others) was able to reach the highest level for the entire existence of the Japanese publisher.

The Chinese authorities are strengthening control over metaverse projects. The SCMP business portal reports that recently “several” companies have failed to register trademarks containing the phrase “yuan yuzhou” (translated as “metaverse”).

Electronic Arts has decided to strengthen the Need For Speed development team. Now the Codemasters division from Cheshire has officially joined Criterion Games.

On May 11, Google held a conference for developers I/O 2022, at which it presented, among other things, new features for its mobile store.

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at how things were with mobile games in the first quarter of 2022. She found out that gamers began to gradually reduce costs — the numbers are declining for the second quarter in a row.

This was announced by the publisher of Marvelous. It took into account worldwide sales of both physical editions of the game and digital copies. How the circulation was distributed is not specified. But it is known that by last June, 127.9 thousand cartridges with Rune Factory 5 for the Nintendo Switch were sold in Japan.

The volume of blockchain transactions is growing rapidly. CB Insights analysts estimate that in the first three months of 2022, companies working with this technology received 461 investments totaling $9.2 billion – a new record.

Tim Berners-Lee shared his opinion in an interview with Bloomberg. He clarified that the metaverse and virtual reality in general are unlikely to replace the Internet in its modern form, but they will become part of its future.

Swedish Starbreeze reported for the first quarter of 2022. It didn’t go well. All key financial indicators have fallen compared to last year.

ResearchAndMarkets.com I have prepared a new report. This time, analysts shared their forecast for the metaverse technology market.

Naoki Yoshida told about this in an interview with Weekly Bunshun. He admitted that he was not very interested in the idea of a metaverse. Although some players compare the metaverse with his MMORPG, the developer does not see much in common between them.

Kwalee continues to expand. The company has announced the launch of a fourth office outside the UK. It will be located in Almada, Portugal. Previously, Kwalee opened branches in India and China.

The achievement became known from the official Twitter account of the game. It is not specified whether this figure includes copies that users took away during the free distribution in the Epic Games Store.

What happened in Ukraine seriously affected the eCPM indicator (effective price per thousand impressions) in mobile applications in Russia and Ukraine. This is stated in a study published by Appodeal at the end of last week.

Omdia interviewed over 3,700 gamers from the USA, UK and Germany about their attitude to cloud gaming services. Analysts found out that 56% of respondents are unfamiliar with cloud games. However, a year and a half ago there were 86% of such respondents.

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.