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.

The turnover of the Turkish gaming market for the first time exceeded the billion dollar mark. To be more specific, he earned $1.2 billion last year. And this is against the background of growing investor interest in local companies.

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.