GfK has published a fresh chart with games showing the best physical sales in the UK over the past week. This time it was led by Horizon Forbidden West, which increased sales by 94% after Sony released the first official bundle for the PS5.

The companies themselves did not disclose the size of the grant. Cyberia Limited noted only that “there are enough funds to develop an AA game.” But according to Kommersant’s sources, the Internet Development Institute (IRI) allocated 260 million rubles to developers.

Valve‘s portable PC has ceased to lead the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the first place went to the vampire survival V Rising. The set for him — Founder’s Pack: Eldest Bloodline — also got into the rating, taking the fifth place.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma that abolishes the punishment for parallel imports to Russia, and rumors have surfaced about Electronic Arts’ plans to sell the company — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Game outsourcing developer Virtuos enters the Vietnamese market. The company announced that it has become the owner of the Glass Egg studio, based in Ho Chi Minh City. The size of the transaction is not disclosed.

Matthew Karch shared his opinion during the presentation of the quarterly report of Embracer Group, the parent company of Saber Interactive. He noted that now the success of the games is much more influenced by the quality of the titles themselves, the hype on social networks and the reviews of influencers.

Another Swedish gaming company has released a financial report. The Thunderful Group said the first quarter of this year was “weak.” Although its revenue increased by 7.3% to $61.4 million, operating profit fell seriously to $524 thousand.

Swedish publisher G5 Entertainment shared the results for the first three months of 2022. He said that the situation in Ukraine affected the financial performance of the company, nevertheless, the quarter was quite successful.

VK Play playground tried to make a portrait of a Russian gamer. She interviewed about two thousand people aged 15 to 54 years and learned a little about their preferences.

On May 17, Electronic Arts released a mobile version of Apex Legends. The game started well. According to AppMagic, by yesterday evening, the shooter’s revenue on smartphones reached $1.56 million.

As Kommersant found out, the closed meeting took place on Wednesday at a Russian Internet forum. 23 developers participated in it, and these were not top managers, but people directly involved in games. It is known that among them were employees of VK and Sbera.

Under the terms of the deal, Cualit will change its name to The Sandbox Uruguay and will support “critical” tools and infrastructure for the company. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources close to the company. According to them, Apple has also accelerated work on the rOS operating system for the headset. According to sources, all together this means that the release of the device may take place in the next few months.

The Game Data Library project continues to disclose sales data in Japan. This time he said that the Nintendo Switch became the third best-selling console in the history of the country.

In early January, Take-Two announced plans to acquire Zynga for $12.7 billion. But in order for the purchase to take place, both companies, among other things, had to get the approval of shareholders. Now they have it — the owners of the shares of Take-Two and Zynga supported all the proposals related to the deal.

According to the Game Data Library, this has happened only 10 times in the entire history of the Japanese market. According to his calculations, 6,225 Xbox Series consoles and 2,693 PlayStation 5 consoles were sold in the country last week.

Two years ago, Focus Entertainment took over M&A. It was joined by five gaming companies, including the creators of Metal Slug Tactics and Necromunda: Hired Gun. In an interview with the GamesIndustry portal, the French publisher spoke a little about his approach to transactions.

This is reported by Reuters with reference to four people familiar with the issue. According to the publication, the platform expects to increase advertising revenue and the time that users spend in TikTok in this way.

Next week, on May 26, the third online conference for HR specialists of the gaming industry Talents In Games: HR Conference 2022 will be held. We tell you what is in her program and who might be interested in her.