The Communications Workers Union of America (CWA) is unhappy with the peace agreement between Activision Blizzard and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Yesterday, the union filed a complaint against the commission.

During the Moscow WN Conference, a round table was held on the topic of advertising creatives. Representatives of Banzai Games, AdSide Media and RoasUp discussed how to work with creatives and what to pay attention to so that they do not harm the games.

Max Postnikov, executive producer of Nexters, spoke at the WN Conference. He shared business tips for beginners in game development and explained why it is not always necessary to chase investments.

In September, the South Korean studio Gravity announced the release of the mobile game Ragnarö k Origin and conducted a closed beta testing. There were a lot of people who wanted to play — the number of pre-registrations reached 400 thousand people. The release date of the MMORPG is still unknown.

Victoria Ustinova, Business Development Manager at Playrix, spoke at the Moscow WN Conference today. She told how the launch of the Gardenscapes and Homescapes games took place in the AppGallery mobile store, which belongs to Huawei.

India has long been considered one of the most promising markets in the gaming industry: not only is the number of active players growing in the country, but also the number of local development companies. Xsolla released its material in VentureBeat and showed the success of the Indian gaming market in numbers.

Last year, Epic Games filed a lawsuit not only against Apple, but also against Google. However, only now Google has decided to put forward counter-claims to the developer. The company said that the creators of Fortnite knowingly violated the agreement with Google Play, and demanded to pay her compensation.

The SideQuest VR application platform has received additional investments. The company will create tools to help developers port games to Oculus Quest.

The Turkish market continues to invest in mobile games. The local company Ludus Venture Studio supported three development studios at once — it invested almost $2 million in them.

The situation around the harassment investigation at Activision Blizzard is getting more complicated. The California Department of Fair Employment and Placement (DFEH) believes that a peace agreement concluded between a gaming company and one of the federal agencies will harm the lawsuit. At the same time, the Department itself is accused of violating professional ethics.The beginning of the conflict

Wanted: a game designer at Azur Games, a junior narrative designer at ZAVOD Games and a manager for organizing business events at WN Media Group.

Mobile publisher Homa Games has closed a Series A funding round, receiving $50 million from investors. The publisher will spend the money on developing its technology stack, which helps games track and improve performance. He also plans to promote a new hyper—casual subgenre – arcade idlers.

Mail.ru The Group was renamed VK. As part of the rebranding, the group of companies updated the logo and announced the creation of a single ecosystem that will unite all existing and new services. Some products will be renamed.This was announced by the company’s CEO Boris Dobrodeev during a news broadcast.

IO Interactive summed up the results of a very successful 2021. In many ways, the phenomenal sales of Hitman 3 contributed to the financial success of the studio. We publish the main thing from the report.

Mobile studio Original Games, founded two years ago by veterans of Machine Zone and Rovio, has closed the seed round of funding. She raised $6 million from investors. The money will be used to develop the Merge Inn game.

The producer of the Recontact game franchise, Simay Dinc, has launched the CATS of Small Village creative camp for Turkish children from villages and small towns. Dinge believes that this is a great project for training and attracting young talents to the video game industry.

Tencent continues to invest in Western developers. Recently, the Chinese giant acquired 21.97% of the shares of the Polish studio Bloober Team, becoming its largest shareholder. The transaction amount was 77.6 million Polish zloty ($19.5 million).The Medium

A month ago, Apple doubted whether it should appeal the verdict of the court in the case with Epic Games. But last Friday, the company decided and filed an appeal. According to experts, the proceedings can drag on for years.

Ivan Agarkov, Production Security Team Lead at Wargaming, wrote a big thread about salaries in the IT sphere. He spoke about the basic principles of the formation of the labor market, the importance of soft skills, the difference in salaries for women and men, and negotiations for an increase. We chose the main thing from Agarkov’s thread.