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.

Krafton is facing another ban in India. Yesterday, her game Battlegrounds Mobile India — the Indian version of PUBG Mobile — was removed from the local Google Play and Apple Store.

Users of Bungie games have noticed that developers have been communicating with their audience less often lately. The other day, the studio’s community manager confirmed that Bungie really decided to reconsider its approach to interacting with players – this is how it tries to protect employees.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a level designer in SIDUS HEROES, a Unity developer in Evrika Games and a 3D animator in R2O. 

This War of Mine and Gra szyfrów are the first games that have officially entered the school curriculum of extracurricular reading in Poland. However, the local government is not going to be limited only to them.

The mobile version of Diablo Immortal took eight weeks to overcome the milestone of $100 million in revenue. According to Sensor Tower analysts, among IP—based games, only Pokémon GO was able to earn such an amount faster at one time – it took her only two weeks.

A new game studio has appeared in Poland — Dark Passenger. It was opened by former developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.

At the beginning of the week, Space Ape Games studio announced that Boom Beach: Frontlines will be released as part of a softlonch in 19 more countries. There were a lot of people who wanted to play. In just two days, a million people have pre-registered in the game.

The new record of the game was reported by Sensor Tower analysts, who took into account only the spending of Google Play and App Store users. According to their calculations, over half of the amount was brought by gamers from the USA — $595.5 million (59.4%). The second and third places went to residents of Germany (5.8%) and the UK (4.5%).

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) intends to prevent Meta* from buying Within Unlimited, a developer of a fitness game for Supernatural virtual reality. The agency sued, saying that such a deal would lead to the creation of a monopoly.

Meta* has released a fresh financial report, in which, among other things, it told about the losses of Reality Labs. According to the corporation, the losses of the XR division for the first half of 2022 amounted to $5.76 billion — 35.4% more than a year ago.

According to the Bombora publishing house, the work of Brighton Robert Denton Bryant and Giglio Keith (Keith Giglio) “Kill the dragon! How to write brilliant scripts for video games.” The book is positioned as a guide to the world of video games, which will help you understand how to write game scripts better.

Rockstar is not what it used to be. Journalist Jason Schreier talked to employees who assure that the company has revised its work processes and has become more progressive.

The marketing agency Consumer Acquisition has released an infographic dedicated to mobile games that are made using the Unity engine. We have selected a few facts from it.

Indie developers will start receiving free PS5 devkits. Sony hopes that thanks to the new program, it will be able to improve the publishing process and lower the entry threshold on the PlayStation.