The first session of the WN Conference in 2022 will be held in Berlin. The dates are February 7-8. The event will be held both offline and online. His program has already been published.

The boom in investments in mobile studios continues in Turkey. Recently, a local startup Dream Games, known for match-3 Royal Match, received $255 million from investors. As a result, its market value reached $2.75 billion.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard for a record $68.7 billion for the gaming industry. As a result, Sony‘s shares collapsed, and information appeared in the media about the possible departure of Bobby Kotick. We tell you what else happened after the news about the deal.

There has been a big discussion on Reddit about programming languages that have been used to develop video games at various times. Users recalled games written in BASIC, the era of assembler and the transition to C++, and also shared stories from their own practice.Assembly language was used in the 80s and early 90s.

2021 was the best year for the US gaming market in terms of turnover. NPD Group analysts estimate that last year Americans spent $60.4 billion on video games, hardware and accessories — more than ever before. The best-selling game was Call of Duty: Vanguard.

The Odnoklassniki social network summed up the results of the year of its gaming platform. Total payments to game developers by the end of 2021 amounted to 3.2 billion ($ 43.4 million). A third of this amount — 1.2 billion rubles ($16.3 million) — fell on mobile projects.

Wanted: a leading UA manager at MYTONA, a senior game designer at tinyBuild and a data analyst at Neskin Games.

Spyke Games is a Turkish mobile studio that was opened two years ago by former top managers of Riot Games, Peak Games and Zynga. Yesterday, it held the largest seed round of financing in the history of the country’s gaming industry.

Deal of the year. Microsoft has announced that it has agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard.

Spire of Sorcery is a turn—based RPG from the creators of Gremlins, Inc. Despite the large number of vishlists, less than 1,500 copies were sold in the first week. Sergey Klimov, the founder of Charlie Oscar, spoke about the reasons for the failure, including a sharp change of concept, blind faith in success and confusion with different versions of the game.

In July last year, a scandal broke out around Activision Blizzard about the toxic working atmosphere in the company. Yesterday it became known that since then the publisher has fired more than three dozen employees and brought 40 more people to disciplinary responsibility.

A new studio Made on Earth Games has appeared. It was founded by Yuri Krasilnikov, former vice president for development of Belka Games, and Alexey Ilyin, producer and creator of the Interactive Cartoon studio. With the support of The Games Fund, the team will develop a mobile 4X strategy.Yuri Krasilnikov and Alexey Ilyin

Mobile action games are the fastest—growing genre at the box office in the USA. The analytical company Sensor Tower estimated that in 2021 their total revenue jumped by 68.9% year-on-year. Other genres had more modest growth rates.

Czech MADFINGER Games, known primarily for AAA games for mobile, decided to make an exclusive for PC. Along with the platform, the company will also change the engine — the novelty will be developed not on Unity, but on Unreal Engine 5.

Indie platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! generated over 17 thousand vishlist before the release. However, the launch turned out to be a complete failure — only 100 copies were sold on the first day. Developer Victor Burgos tried to figure out the reasons for the failure, and industry colleagues joined the discussion.

A little over a year has passed since the worldwide release of Solitaire Cruise. During this time, the project has managed to grow greatly and enter the box office top 3 tapeworms in the world. In this regard, Belka Games talked about how the first twelve months of surgery went for the project team.

Last week, Tencent invested in another gaming company. She acquired a minority stake in the Polish THE PARASIGHT. It is not known how much the purchase cost.

Three days ago, on January 14, God of War was officially released on PC. The game immediately climbed to the top of the weekly Steam bestseller chart, shifting Ready or Not. The shooter stayed in first place for three weeks in a row.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a large-scale report on the largest legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.