The Swedish Embracer Group holding has become cramped on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market, an exchange on which mainly small and medium—sized companies are traded. He announced that he would switch to Nasdaq Stockholm on December 22.

The Exputer portal, citing sources, reports that at the moment Crystal Dynamics has no plans to create fresh content for Marvel’s Avengers after 2023.

Analysts data.ai It is predicted that in 2022, user spending on mobile games will decrease by 5% in annual terms to $110 billion — for the first time since 2014. In 2023, the decline will continue and amount to 3%.

Publisher Kitfox Games announced that in less than a day Dwarf Fortress sales on Steam exceeded 160 thousand copies. The company expected to sell so much in two months.

At the beginning of the week, the commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on information policy made several proposals related to video games. One of them is to introduce the identification of gamers through services like “Sber ID” and “Yandex ID”. However, at least this proposal has not yet been received by the apparatus of the Russian government.

The head of Valve commented on Microsoft‘s promise to leave the Call of Duty series on Steam for 10 years if the deal with Activision Blizzard takes place. Gabe Newell stated that he was pleased with this offer and takes it as a compliment to Steam.

Keywords Studio s has one more office. A group of companies specializing in gaming outsourcing has launched a division in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Apple has updated the pricing policy of its app store. She said that 900 variants of price tags for their products became available to developers at once.

Japanese police detained Yuji Naka for the second time in the last month. Now he was suspected of insider trading in shares of Ateam Studio, the co—developer of Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier.

The Center for Strategic Research (CSR) has prepared a report in which he told how it is possible to limit the Russian IT sector from foreign influence. Among other things, he suggested that IT companies coordinate with the authorities all “significant corporate actions” of foreigners.

French publisher Homa spoke about the downloads of a mobile arcade about dinosaur battles on LinkedIn.

According to Bloomberg, on December 7, Microsoft executives are going to meet with representatives of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They will try once again to convince the regulator not to block the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Phil Spencer announced that Microsoft has agreed to release Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles after completing the purchase of Activision Blizzard. He also confirmed that the games in the series will continue to be released on Steam at the same time as the release on Xbox.

The Commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on Information Policy has prepared another proposal related to video games. Now she wants games for children to be researched in Russia on a permanent basis.

At the beginning of 2023, Terra Nil, an inversion construction simulator about ecology, will be released on Steam. We publish an interview with the producer of the project Ruan Rothmann (Ruan Rothmann).

The proposal was made in the commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on information policy. Officials hope the registry will help limit the spread of “harmful to children” video games in the country.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has acquired a controlling stake in Pixelynx. She did not disclose the amount and terms of the transaction.

On December 6, Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo and at least 18 other Chinese companies shut down regional online game servers for a day. According to the GameLook portal, they did it as a sign of mourning for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

The PUBG developer received an award as part of the Export Tower Award, an award held under the supervision of the Ministry of Commerce of South Korea. It is awarded to companies that contribute most to the development of exports.