In the release week, Anthem soared to the very top of the UK chart, despite low sales and a barrage of criticism from players and the media. In the second week, Anthem sales fell by 71% — but even after that, the game retains its leadership in the top.

German mobile studio Sviper has closed the second round of financing. She received $2.8 million from the Swedish media company Modern Times Group.

On the first day of spring, Team Ninja studio released Dead or Alive 6. This is another game in a series of fighting games, famous for its fan service. We talk about how the project was met by the players and the press, evaluate its potential in terms of sales.

Today, March 1, the Russian IT giant Mail.Ru Group spoke about the financial results of last year. The earnings of his gaming business amounted to 24.7 billion rubles ($ 395 million). This is a 40% increase compared to the results of 2017 (according to IFRS).

Horizon Zero Dawn was released in the USA on February 28, 2017 — two years ago. During this time, it has sold 10 million copies, as announced yesterday by Guerilla Games studio.

The history of the launch and changes of the Township builder is shared by Alexander Zabezhinsky, the project’s game design manager.

Two basketball players sued Epic Games, but they were far from the first.

A serious struggle broke out around the South Korean publisher Nexon. Electronic Arts, Amazon and Comcast joined it, as VentureBeat became known.

Tencent will present a competitor for Microsoft, Google and Amazon streaming services at GDC 2019. This is reported by Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.

When the publishing division is closed, 13 employees will be laid off.

The publisher of Tank Stars and Tomb of the Mask analyzed its Russian audience and found out what they play and how much they pay in games in Russia.

Last year was the most profitable in the history of the Norwegian Funcom. And during this time, the publisher has made several major deals. He told about this in the report for the fourth quarter of 2018 and for the whole year.

Russian social networks “Odnoklassniki” and “VKontakte” have opened an entry for a paid course “HTML5 game Developer”. It will be held with the support of the educational portal GeekBrains.

Its author is Mikhail Kadikov, a level designer at the German Crytek studio.

The list of internal Microsoft studios may include Relic Entertainment. According to an insider Krobrille, the authors of Homeworld and Company of Heroes will acquire Xbox Game Studios (formerly Microsoft Studios).

Indie team goonswarm with the support of the publisher Black Tower has released Steam Likes. With the help of this service, you can find out which games have your product on the Steam page in the “Similar products” column (More like this).

Wanted: programmer at Alternativa Games, project manager at Pixonic and game designer at ZiMAD.

The company is looking for strong and competent developers.

Anthem’s release sales in the UK were compared with the starting results of other famous titles. The figures clearly demonstrate how small the success of the new game from BioWare is.