This statement was made by the president of the corporation Brad Smith (Brad Smith) during an interview with the Belgian edition of L’Echo. He said that the deal is already entering the middle phase. But in any case, a lot still needs to be done.

VK has announced that it is starting to accept applications for paid internships in its game studios. The company has provided a choice of three areas: game content adaptation, analytics and game design.

This is stated in the draft federal law on the Russian mobile marketplace, which was reviewed by Kommersant. The full list is not disclosed, but most likely there are 10 companies in it that are members of the RuStore expert council. Among them are VK itself, Yandex, Rostelecom, Gazprom-Media and Sberbank.

This is stated in the joint report of StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg . GTA V has become the most popular game on Twitch again — it has 127 million hours of views (60% more than in March). In addition, Elden Ring has been in the top for the third month in a row, this time taking ninth place. Streams on it have collected 36 million hours of views.

On May 17, early access to the vampire survival V Rising was opened on Steam. In two days, the number of simultaneous users in it reached 70,256 people (according to Steam DB).

The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Under the terms of the agreement, Aim Lab will now become the official training ground for Valorant — there shooter users will be able to practice shooting.

Swedish Embracer Group reported for the fiscal year ended March 31. During this period, the company managed to increase revenue by 89%, and game sales — by 116% at once.

This is reported by Kotaku, who received a copy of the letter for Electronic Arts (EA) employees. It is assumed that the reduction may affect about 100 support specialists, many of whom work with FIFA 22. Their tasks will be outsourced.

Blizzard has new problems. Nathan Harris sued the company on behalf of his child, claiming that it misleads underage Hearthstone users.

A new selection of gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a senior game designer at Perfect Play, a Unity developer at Hypemasters and a graphic designer at QMobi.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is one of the most prominent investors in the gaming market. For example, she invested in Oculus, Zynga, Riot Games and Epic Games. Now a16z has decided to establish Games Fund One, focused exclusively on games.

The new office was located in Barcelona and became the fifth for an American company. Besides him, Product Madness has studios in the UK, Ukraine, Poland and Israel.

Griffin Gaming Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Galaxy Interactive and several other investors have invested in the studio. N3twork Studios did not tell what exactly it will spend the money on, but, apparently, they will go to the development of blockchain games.

The increasing control by the authorities will not prevent the growth of the Chinese gaming market, at least the mobile and PC segments. Analysts at Niko Partners shared a forecast according to which the total turnover of these segments will increase by 22% in five years.

According to Reuters, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida touched on this topic during a strategic briefing. He said that the company wants to play a leading role in the upcoming metaverse.

The Chinese giant Tencent continues to set anti-records. In a recent financial report, the company reported that it earned $20.1 billion in the quarter — the same as a year ago. For reference: since 2004, when Tencent went public, its revenue has been constantly growing.

This was announced by the company’s CEO Vladimir Kiriyenko. It is also noted that the store will be available not only for Russian, but also for foreign developers.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF or the Sovereign Fund of Saudi Arabia) has become the fifth largest shareholder of Nintendo, Bloomberg reports, citing data from the Japanese Ministry of Finance. It is not known how much it cost the foundation.

Now she owns 78.5% of the publisher’s shares. CI Games wants to buy out the remaining 21.5% and is ready to pay 18.02 zloty ($4.07) in cash for each share. If the deal goes through, the market value of United Label will reach 22.98 million zlotys ($5.2 million).