The antimonopoly regulator of New Zealand has moved up the date by which it should render a verdict on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. He decided to check again whether the purchase would damage competition in the country’s cloud gaming market.

Steam users are actively playing a low—poly analogue of Battlefield – indie shooter BattleBit Remastered for 254 players. On the night of June 20, its peak online on the Valve platform reached 61,390 people, according to SteamDB data.

The gaming market in South Korea is stabilizing. The state organization Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) found out that last year the country’s residents spent $16.4 billion on video games. This is only 0.9% more than in 2021.

In July, WN Media Group launches a new educational service. It’s called the WN Academy. This is a marketplace of courses, webinars and training programs for gaming professionals. At the start, the service will offer a course by Evgeny Sudak.

Wargraphs, a company that creates companion apps for League of Legends and other games, has joined the MOBA Network. It was bought for €50 million.

Total sales of Persona 5 and its spin-offs exceeded 9 million copies. This was announced by the developers from Atlus shortly after the announcement of Persona 5 Tactica.

The Indian organization Prahar has asked the government of India to block Undawn, a survival in the post-apocalypse from Tencent, in the country. She found references in the game to the clash on the border of China and India in 2020.