Vampire Survival V Rising continued to lead the list of the best-selling games on Steam. As a result of last week, he again got the first place (and taking into account the set of Founder’s Pack: Eldest Bloodline, he also got the sixth). Also on the bestseller chart were My Time at Sandrock and Sniper Elite 5.

Activision Blizzard решила не выпускать Diablo Immortal в России, tinyBuild дала сотрудникам возможность брать безлимитные отпуска, а Meta* столкнулась с иском из-за нарушения патентов в Quest 2, — рассказываем, что произошло в игровой индустрии за эти выходные.

There is a replenishment in the list of gaming companies that have decided to switch to “remote”. Gismart has announced that it will now adhere to the Remote First principle — starting in June, it will primarily offer employees to work from home.

SOC Investment Group, which owns less than 1% of Activision Blizzard shares, again opposed the publisher’s management. She appealed to the other shareholders to vote against the re-election of half of the company’s board of directors, including CEO Bobby Kotick.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced this during a speech to the participants of the Leaders of Russia contest. According to him, such a figure could be seen on SIM cards.

The other day, the pandemic simulator Plague Inc. turned ten years old. In honor of this, its creator James Vaughan held a question and answer session on Reddit. During a conversation with the users of the site, he admitted that his game becomes more popular every time there is an outbreak of any disease: flu, Ebola or coronavirus.

In 2012, two British developers Ashley Gwinnell and Nick Dymond opened a studio called Force of Habit. She managed to release eight games, among which were Toast Time and Sinking Feeling, before she closed indefinitely. In the official blog, Gwinnell told why he had to stop working.

At the end of May, Steam revealed which new games were best sold on the platform last month. It took into account sales for the first two weeks after the release.

In early March, CD PROJEKT announced that it was suspending sales of games in Russia and Belarus. Apparently, this decision affected the income of at least one project — the collectible card game “GWINT”.

Epic Games has filed a new appeal in the proceedings with Apple, this time accusing the corporation of a little hypocrisy. She recalled that one of the arguments that Apple used in court is related to iOS security. Allegedly, if you allow users to download applications not from the App Store, then fraudsters will be able to access personal data.

Yesterday, CD PROJEKT Group boasted a record revenue of 216.4 million zlotys or $50.3 million. She had never earned so much in the first quarter before. However, neither this nor the twofold increase in profits seem to have impressed investors.

Developers from another game studio were out of work. According to Kotaku, a wave of layoffs took place in all Hangar 13 offices. It is not known exactly how many people were fired. But according to the publication, the unit in Novato suffered the most, which 50 out of 87 employees left.

The head of Microsoft’s gaming division said this at a general meeting with Xbox Game Studios employees. Spencer added that a year and a half ago (during the previous meeting) he knew little about trade unions, but now he understood the topic well. In his opinion, unionization is one of the rights of employees.

The publisher and developer of Cyberpunk 2077 has published a financial report for the first quarter of 2022. According to him, the company is doing well. It’s about both revenue and profit.

Such a decision was made by the company’s management due to the fact that loot boxes are banned in both countries. They are considered gambling mechanics in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation decided to form another studio within its Kadokawa Games gaming division — Dragami Games. So far, not much is known about the studio, but it is reported that it will continue to work with the same genres as the entire Kadokawa Games. These are RPG, tactical role-playing games and romantic simulators.

The companies announced that all payments will be made in the form of IMX tokens. They have not disclosed the full terms on which they will support the developers. But apparently, as a result of the deal, sponsored blockchain games will appear on the new version of the Kongregate platform.

How exactly is the process of A/B testing of visual content for app stores built in Belka Games, – in his article for App2Top.ru the leading ASO-manager of the company Anastasia Personal told.

The Chinese giant NetEase summed up the financial results of the first quarter of 2022. During the reporting period, its gaming revenue increased by 15.3%, not least due to the successes of Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Ghost World Chronicle and Naraka: Bladepoin (however, the company did not share figures for these titles).