More than half of the employees of game studios believe that they are underpaid. This is stated in the study of the Federation of trade Unions UNI Global Union, which interviewed specialists from 29 countries.

According to a recent report by Electronic Arts (EA), for the 12 months ending in March 2022, Andrew Wilson received $19.9 million. This is significantly less than a year ago, when his bonus was $39.2 million.

The developer and publisher of Raid: Shadow Legends will stop working in Russia. Information has appeared on the network that Plarium is closing a division located in Krasnodar.

The news that Microsoft has agreed to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion has concerned public figures and human rights activists. They noted that the deal could exacerbate the problem of discrimination and harassment in the publishing house. Now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has assured that it is investigating the takeover from this side.

Mobile publisher Tamatem Games from Jordan has announced a strategic partnership with venture capital company MSA Novo. As part of the cooperation, he plans to bring his games to the Chinese market.

McKinsey & Co., a consulting company, believes that the concept of the metaverse has great potential. She predicts that in eight years the metaverse market will be valued at $5 trillion. However, only 2.5% of this amount will be spent on games.

Activision Blizzard has promised to report regularly to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on how the internal investigation concerning harassment in the company is progressing. In a recent report, the board of directors pointed out that neither he nor independent consultants found evidence that the publisher deliberately hushed up the problem.

Tim Stuart said this during a conversation with investors. In his opinion, the situation has worsened due to a new series of lockdowns in China.

In recent years, regulators around the world and large technology companies have begun to pay more attention to user privacy. The marketing company Bango decided to figure out how what is happening affects the mobile business. To do this, she interviewed more than 300 developers and marketers from the UK and the USA.

Gamania Digital, which publishes the MMORPG Lineage M in Taiwan, lost a court to an esports player. He claimed that the company had reduced the probability of losing valuable items to 5%. This is twice as low as in the original Korean version of the game.

June 19 in the United States is celebrated Juneteenth or the Day of the Liberation of slaves. The creators of Halo Infinite decided to celebrate the event and added a new coloring to the game on the eve of the holiday. That’s just its name was very disliked by gamers.

Yesterday, Roblox, in a fresh financial report, told how May passed for her. Receipts (bookings) of the platform fell by about 9-11% compared to last year and amounted to $196-199 million. Nevertheless, it was able to increase revenue to $194-197 million, which is immediately 28-30% more than a year ago.

A month ago, the release of the Russian mobile marketplace NashStore took place. In honor of this, the developers reported that the number of users of the store exceeded one million people.

The administration of St. Petersburg became interested in the metaverse. According to the vice-governor of the city Stanislav Kazarin, she wants to use metaverse technologies for state platforms.

Russian developers will soon be able to claim a new benefit. The authorities of the Kaliningrad region are going to reimburse them part of the money spent on the creation of games. Andrey Tolmachev, General Director of the Kaliningrad Region Development Corporation, told about this during his speech at the SPIEF.

The developer and publisher of mobile games Game Insight is leaving Russia. The company liquidates the organization and fires people. Some people are invited to support existing products in a new LLC.

Last week, CD Projekt shares fell by 9% in a day, falling to 93 zloty ($20.7) apiece. Their price has not been so low since 2017. Polish news publication today Bankier.pl it gathered the opinions of analysts about what the group of companies can expect next.

Hypemasters, founded by immigrants from Russia, received investments from three companies. According to VentureBeat, GEM Capital invested $ 2 million in the studio, another $ 1 million — The Games Fund, and $ 250 thousand — Ludus.

40% of Joy-Con owners for the Nintendo Switch faced stick drift, the British human rights organization Which? found out. She said that Nintendo should look into the problem and conduct an independent investigation. It is also desirable that the company “unconditionally” and free of charge replace all faulty controllers.