We continue to summarize the results of last year together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Natalia Yurkova, Managing Partner of i-Legal.Tell me, what was the year for you personally?

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: the head of the ASO direction at Dankolab, a financial manager at Fun to Mass Games and a game logic programmer at Lesta Games.

This figure was called by the portal MobileGamer.biz , who studied the data of the AppMagic service.

Microsoft continues to defend the purchase of Activision Blizzard. As noted by Stephen Totilo from Axios, she recently asked the court to postpone consideration of a lawsuit from 10 American gamers until the proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are completed.

Drake Star estimates that in 2022, the volume of announced and/or closed M&A agreements, investments and public offerings in the gaming industry amounted to $127 billion. This is 78.8% more than a year earlier.

Journalist Jacob Wolf reported that Riot Games has also started firing employees. According to him, the cuts take place in the HR, support and esports departments.

Last week, Yves Guillemot made an unfortunate statement. In a letter to employees, he indicated that the fate of Ubisoft is in the hands of developers, and urged developers to give their all. Now the head of the publishing house has apologized for incorrectly chosen words.