Doom Eternal broke the franchise record for sales on the release weekend. The game earned twice as much as Doom (2016) in its first weekend. This is reported by Bethesda — however, without naming the exact revenue or the number of copies sold of the novelty. But it is known that Eternal became the bestseller of the week on Steam.

In Japan, the Nintendo Switch console surpassed the Wii in sales. According to the Game Data Library, Switch has sold 12.8 million copies in the country in three years. The Wii’s record in the Japanese market is 12.7 million copies, and they sold twice as slowly.

During the total quarantine, Niantic made changes to Rockemop GO. Pokemon began to appear more often at the player’s home, and baits for them fell by 99%. After that, sales of the game jumped noticeably. In total, from March 16 to 22, she earned $23 million — 66.7% more than a week earlier.

Polish publisher of mobile games BoomBit, previously published midcore Tanks a Lot! and Mighty Heroes, changes the strategy. Now the company plans to specialize in hypercausal titles.

Today, on March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the introduction of a number of economic measures related to the spread of coronavirus. Many of them concern small and medium-sized businesses. We have identified the main ones.

The developers of the Just Cause series are now called Avalanche Studios Group. The change is of a formal nature. It allowed the company to focus on the fact that it is structurally divided into three businesses.

For those who are bored in the evenings, the organizers of the GDC made a gift. At their GDC Vault, they published about 30 performances from the last event, which was held remotely.

A new blockbuster has appeared in the Glu Mobile library. The company has finally officially released Disney Sorcerer’s Arena – a battler in which the Little Mermaid and the Black Cloak fight each other.

Research and Markets specialists have rolled out a forecast for the development of esports until 2025. According to their data, this market will grow by 20% per year on average.

The authors of the game about deadly pandemics Plague Inc. have joined the fight against the coronavirus. They transferred $250 thousand to organizations that are looking for a vaccine against COVID-19.

The main console release of March is a new part of Animal Crossing with a subtitle New Horizons. In the first three days, the game sold 1.88 million copies in Japan alone (this does not include digital copies sold).

This is the second Galaxy Interactive investment deal in a year. The company invested in the California-based gaming startup Big Run Studios as part of the seed round through the Galaxy EOS VC Fund.

Google, as part of its online event, shared new figures and tools for developing games on Android. Including for graphics optimization and cross-platform support.

Wanted: art producer at RJ Games, game analyst at Belka Games and computer graphics programmer (C++) at Targem Games.

One of the problems of Stadia is a small library. Google understands this. Therefore, they announced that they were working on a program that would allow independent teams to independently publish games on this cloud platform.

Playtika decided to provide humanitarian assistance during the coronavirus pandemic, writes Gamesindustry.biz . The developer instructed catering companies to feed people in quarantine and a number of non-profit organizations in Israel and Eastern Europe. 500 food rations will be received weekly in Israel, and more than 2,500 in Eastern Europe.

Fortune Business Insights analysts are confident in the bright future of cloud gaming. They estimated the size of the cloud gaming market in 2018 and calculated its size by 2027.

By the end of 2019, App Annie has collected the top 10 highest-grossing mobile companies with headquarters in Russia. Most of them are engaged in game development.

Oddly enough, Half-Life: Alyx is still not the most popular VR game. The long-awaited novelty from Valve has reached a peak online of 42.8 thousand players, according to SteamDB. This is a great result, but it is lower than that of Beat Saber. Its peak for all time is 46.5 thousand simultaneous users.