The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of controlling the NFT market in the country. The Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Central Bank and business, at which it proposed to make several changes to the laws. In particular, to establish the legal status of the NFT and to prescribe the issues related to the issuance and circulation of tokens, as well as consumer protection.

AppMagic analysts told which hyper-casual games were the most popular in the App Store and Google Play in the second quarter of 2022. This time, the first two places in the top went to Supersonic Studios projects at once.

Diablo Immortal has been released in China today. Its release was successful, although it took place a month later than planned. Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to the fact that Diablo Immortal immediately became the first in downloads among games in the local App Store.

The Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) has asked the FAS to initiate a case against Twitch. In his opinion, the platform violated the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation when it stopped making payments to Russian streamers.

Another studio has appeared in Turkey, which has decided to develop mobile games. It’s called L8 Studios. At the end of last week, she announced that she had attracted the first investments — from WePlay Ventures and Lima Ventres.

37Games is a publisher of mobile and browser games, known primarily for Puzzles & Survival, Wild Frontier and Jurassic Tribes. Recently, it was reported on Chinese social networks that the company had closed a branch in Chengdu. It employed about 30 people.

The success of the game was told by journalist Christopher Dring from Gamesindustry.biz, referring to the GfK data.

Let’s figure out which projects earned the most on Steam in the 29th week of the year.

Russian gamers have become more likely to buy retro consoles. According to Ozon estimates, such devices sold 58% better this June than a year ago. The most popular consoles were Dendy, Sega, Game Boy, Magistr and Game Box.

The French gaming holding company Focus Entertainment reported for April-June. In three months, the holding earned €38.2 million. Most of the revenue is provided by the initial sales of the pixel bitmap Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s revenge.

The young studio FlyinDogs is preparing to release a narrative novel in the Slavic setting of The Tales of Bayun. We asked its founder Ilya Maksimenko to tell us about the team and the work on the project.

All official web forums of the Borderlands developer series will be closed in August 2022. Now they have switched to the “read-only” status. Communication with players goes to social networks.

An outsourcer with Ukrainian roots, Room 8 Studio, announced a rebranding and significant changes in the company’s business structure.

Another news on the topic of gaming NFT. A curious interview with the developers of the mobile game Aglet was released on GamesBeat. This is a geolocation project in the spirit of Pokémon Go, but about pumping and collecting sneakers (not to be confused with the sensational STEPN).

Tim Sweeney, the head of Epic Games, said that the company is not going to prohibit the distribution of games that have NFT functionality on the Epic Games Store. In his opinion, it is wrong to interfere in the way developers create games.

On Wednesday, the Minecraft developer published an appeal to the players. In it, she said that she was in the process of updating user guidelines. In light of this, the company decided to clarify its attitude to NFT. She’s against them. Mojang is not going to support them or allow them into Minecraft. The statement caused a resonance.

Last night Ubisoft published a financial report for April-June. Within its framework, it became known that the company is not doing well. She is forced to radically optimize and cut her expenses.

However, supply has not kept pace with demand. If since the beginning of hostilities, the number of proposals to bypass official payment schemes for video games has increased by 3-11%, then the demand for them has increased by 24-52%.