Apple must pay a fine of $17 million or 1.17 billion rubles in Russia. The fine was imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS), — the agency was not satisfied that Apple was imposing the App Store payment system on developers.

AppMagic analysts have published a report on hyper-casual games. They listed the 10 most popular games in the fourth quarter of 2022, and also shared key trends.

In 2022, China’s gaming market earned $40.1 billion, which is 10.3% less than the previous year. As noted by SCMP with reference to the data of the Association of Audio-Video and Digital Publishers of China, previously for two decades the market revenue only grew.

Blizzard Entertainment wrote on Weibo that it tried to extend the agreement with NetEase for another six months, but without success.

On January 16, The Callisto Protocol stopped selling on Steam to residents of Russia. Neither the publisher Krafton nor the developers from Striking Distance Studios have publicly announced the suspension of sales, but the page with the game no longer opens in the region.

Mobile Vampire Survivors is popular. Portal MobileGamer.biz With reference to the data, AppMagic reported that in the period from December 8 to January 16, the game collected 1.47 million downloads on Google Play and 1.68 million downloads on the App Store.

At the beginning of the month, the Insider Gaming portal reported that the American studio Motorsport Games has not been paying employees from Russia since October 2022. Then the developers said they were going to go to court. But it seems that recently one of them decided to move to more aggressive measures.

From December 14 to 28, a charity event was held at Solitaire Cruise — Belka Games promised to donate all proceeds from it to research on the treatment of cancer in children, as well as support for the sick and their families. Now the company has summed up the results of the event.