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All publications for 21.03.2022

Law March 21, 2022

It is possible that paying for Facebook services through a third party will be qualified as financing an extremist organization

Instagram Facebook Today, March 21, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognized the activities of the Meta Platform company as extremist and banned the operation of its Facebook and Instagram services in Russia. We asked a representative of the Semenov & Pevzner law firm to briefly explain what this means.

Conferences March 21, 2022

GDC officially confirmed that it refuses to participate to delegates from Russia

GDC cancels tickets of participants from Russia. The first information about this leaked into the public field on the morning of March 21. By the evening, we received an official confirmation of the information from the GDC.

Case March 21, 2022

Case study: how disabling an “aggressive” advertising network led to an increase in LTV

Game studio NewPubCo shared with App2Top.ru a story about how the change in advertising monetization affected the long-term revenue figures of their game.

Industry March 21, 2022

Eric Baron is now responsible for publishing Stardew Valley on all platforms

Chucklefish returned the rights to the mobile version of the game to Eric Barone, the creator of Stardew Valley. Now he has nothing to do with the publisher, whose reputation has been damaged in recent years.

Games March 21, 2022

Elden Ring continues to lead the Steam chart for the fourth week in a row

Elden Ring has firmly established itself at the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Over the past four weeks, no project has been able to shift the FromSoftware game from the first place. However, Steam Deck is breathing down her back, which once again got to the second line of the rating.