Starting in the fall, owners of PS5 consoles will no longer be able to send each other rewards for participating in multiplayer games. Sony announced that this feature was not very popular, so the company will get rid of it soon.

In the period from April to June, the number of new vacancies with the word “metaverse” in their description decreased by 81%. Such data is shared by the research company Revelio Labs.

The publisher of Puzzles & Survival may be continuing to optimize the staff. Information has appeared on the web that 37Games has fired some employees from the division responsible for publishing mobile games. According to various estimates, the cuts affected 100-300 people.

Call of Duty is so popular that it depends on which console gamers will eventually choose, Sony is confident. Among other things, the company said this in response to a request from the Brazilian antimonopoly regulator, which is checking the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

Specialists of the Yukassa service, which is part of the Sber ecosystem, analyzed the expenses of gamers in the first half of 2022. They calculated that during this period, the number of purchases in games increased by 45%, and the total turnover of online platforms increased by 53%.

This is reported by the Kommersant newspaper, which has read the DDoS-Guard report. According to him, in January-June 2022, hackers attacked gaming resources * in Russia 6.2 thousand times. For comparison: at the same time last year, only 1.9 thousand cyber attacks were recorded.

We look at which projects have earned the most on Steam in the 30th week of the year.

The State Duma called for The Sims 4 to be banned in Russia, Google denied rumors about the closure of Stadia, and the Indonesian authorities blocked Steam, Epic Games Store and a number of other platforms — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

In 2018, indie developer Josh Parnell announced that he would not finish the Limit Theory space simulator because he underestimated the high cost and scale of the project. At the same time, he promised that he would eventually place the game’s source code in the public domain. Four years later, Parnell still fulfilled his promise.

Peter Moore, who led Microsoft‘s gaming division until 2007, shared his memories in the Front Office Sports podcast. He said that at the time of the launch of the Xbox 360, the company saw console wars as an opportunity to challenge Sony.

At the end of March, hackers stole $625 million worth of tokens from Axie Infinity. After learning about the hack, Sky Mavis promptly suspended the operation of the Ronin blockchain. However, before she did this, CEO Trung Nguyen hurried to transfer $3 million from the game to the Binance crypto exchange.

The premiere of the documentary show “New World with Nina Serebryannikova” took place on YouTube. The first series is dedicated to the life of the Russian-speaking IT community — including gaming — in Cyprus. Among the speakers is the Minister of Innovation and Digital Legislation of the island.

Concept Ventures, formerly known as RLC Ventures, has announced that it will invest in British game developers. Together with British Business Bank, she launched an early-stage fund, which she called simply The Fund.

Reuters sources in the Indian government explained why the country decided to block B attlegrounds Mobile India. According to their information, officials considered that the game illegally transfers gamers’ data to China. Earlier, for this reason, the Indian authorities banned over 300 applications.

In August 2020, Ubisoft fired Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of Assassin’s Creed, amid a scandal: allegedly, the developer used his official position and, being married, had numerous affairs. But, as Axio s found out, Ismail soon got a job in the Montreal office of TiMi Studios, the “daughter” of Tencent.

As part of the MTV Video Music Awards, a new category has appeared — “best performance in the metaverse”. The organizers decided to add it after they noticed that artists are increasingly holding concerts in virtual worlds.

Last summer, the A Better Ubisoft group called on management to make fundamental changes in the company’s corporate culture that will solve the problem of harassment. Then Yves Guillemot agreed that Ubisoft needed to change something. That’s just, according to activists, so far none of their demands have been met.

The first quarter of fiscal 2022 was not very smooth for PlayStation. According to a recent report, the operating profit of Sony‘s gaming division decreased to $397 million (-37%), and sales — to $4.54 billion (-2%).

From September 1, new rules for the design of game banners will take effect on Steam. For example, developers will no longer be allowed to write about discounts, other games and critics’ ratings on images, and they will also not be able to use quotes from reviews.