The ultra-realistic shooter Unrecord, whose gameplay videos are considered fake by many users due to the fact that they are indistinguishable from video shooting, has made a noise.

China’s NetEase has announced the launch of another foreign studio — anchorPoint Studios. Her team includes developers Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Control and The Division.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko is dissatisfied with the way Russian characters are portrayed in Western video games. In his opinion, the developers are trying to form a negative image of Russia.

Tencent wants to strengthen itself outside of China and protect its business from the growing control of the Chinese authorities. According to the Financial Times, citing sources, the holding intends to actively buy shares in foreign studios. First of all, in European countries.

The British regulator blocked the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency concluded that it harms competition in the cloud gaming market.

Recently, the Kazakh authorities announced that from July 1, local organizations will be able to officially switch to a four-day working week. Gaming companies around the world are also actively changing the format to a “four-day”. Skillsearch recruitment agency found out from the developers what they think about such a work schedule.

Microsoft expects that UK and EU regulators will approve the takeover of Activision Blizzard, according to sources of the New York Post newspaper. After that, she will be able to negotiate with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which previously sued the corporation.

Earlier this week, the media reported that NetEase decided to sue Blizzard Entertainment over the closure of games in China and filed a lawsuit for $43.5 million. Now it turned out that the author of the claim is not NetEase, but a disgruntled Chinese gamer.

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.