At the end of April, MRGV turned three years old. We decided that this was a great opportunity to talk to its managing director Ilya Karpinsky about the relationship between developers and publishers.

Facebook is suing the company “Eco” from St. Petersburg. The latter has owned the Oculus brand for five years and can produce video games, medicines and other types of goods under it.

Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation related to cryptocurrencies are being prepared in Russia. In its current form, the bill puts the authors of games with in-game currency at risk. They face, among other things, criminal liability for “digital currency turnover”.

The top ten best-selling Steam games of last week were topped by the DLC pack for Civilization VI. PUBG and No Man’s Sky returned to the chart.

Today it became known about the gaming deal, which threatens to become the largest in recent times. American gaming giant Zynga has agreed to acquire the Turkish studio Peak Games for an astronomical sum of $ 1.8 billion.

Publisher 11 bit Studios has sold 1 million copies of Moonlighter in two years. At the same time, the number of users of the game exceeds the sold circulation by 3.5 times.

On May 26, an online Talents In Games: HR Conference was held on the WN Hub platform. In our memory, this is the first gaming event dedicated to HR issues in the gaming industry. We tell you about its results.

French Dontnod Entertainment, known for Life is Strange, is expanding. The developer has opened a branch in Canada.

Game designer Cliff Bleszinski found the culprit in the failure of the online shooter LawBreakers, followed by the bankruptcy of his studio. In his opinion, the publisher Nexon failed.

The authors of the Cut the Rope series have brought a new game of their own to the market. It’s called Bullet Echo. This is a multiplayer top-down shooter with a royal battle and cyberpunk style.

Publisher Square Enix has opened a new division. It will deal with AI developments not only for games, but also for “new forms of entertainment”.

CD Projekt revealed the sales of The Witcher game trilogy. Over 13 years, 50 million copies of the Witcher Games have been sold.

COVID-19 has brought the moment when games will no longer be sold at retail. This opinion was expressed by Frontier Developments CEO David Braben.

GameRefinery has published a study of the situation on the match-3 market. Among other things, analysts told about the main products on the market, the three “waves” of the genre and the reasons why new representatives of the genre are so popular.

Slovakia’s game development shows a noticeable increase. In 2019, he earned $51 million — almost twice as much as in 2016.

Valve is really preparing a new cloud service. It is called Cloud Play and allows you to play Steam games through third-party cloud services.

Together with IDC, the analytical company App Annie presented a 30-page video game market study. We have highlighted the main thing from the report.

Wanted: business developer at Belka Games, head of 3D direction at MY.GAMES and tester at Matryoshka Games.

Major industrial events continue to be canceled due to the coronavirus. Blizzard announced that it will not hold an annual convention for BlizzCon players this year, which could presumably take place in November.