PlayStation may stop working closely with Activision Blizzard. In testimony to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the head of Sony‘s gaming division said that it would not transfer PS6 data to the company in case of successful completion of the deal with Microsoft.

Mass layoffs took place in the indie studio Scavengers Studio. This was already written by former employees on LinkedIn.

On June 18, the Titan bathyscaphe, which went to the wreckage of the sunken Titanic, disappeared from radar. While rescuers are searching for the missing ship, gamers are buying up the indie horror Iron Lung, the events of which unfold on a submarine.

Screenwriter Steve Ince, best known for his work on the Broken Sword series, has announced his retirement from game development.

Top managers of Supercell and Rovio criticized the Finnish government’s program tightening migration policy. In their opinion, it will make the country much less attractive for foreign developers.

In August 2022, Embracer Group announced the purchase of Middle-earth Enterprises, which owns the rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books. Almost a year later, the Swedish holding disclosed the value of the transaction.

Last March, Capcom suspended work on the Russian market. However, this did not prevent her from selling more than 100 thousand copies of games in Russia for the fiscal year that lasted from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

American gamers who are suing Microsoft over a deal with Activision Blizzard have found “indisputable proof” of Microsoft’s plans to oust the PlayStation from the market. They believe that this is why the corporation buys Activision Blizzard.

In May, 50% of Entertainment Factory LLC came under the control of Astrum Entertainment. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the data of the SPARK-Interfax database.

Electronic Arts (EA) CEO Andrew Wilson has announced a new stage of restructuring. As part of it, all the company’s internal studios will be distributed between two divisions: EA Entertainment and EA SPORTS.

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.

The revenue of the football simulator FIFA Mobile exceeded $ 1 billion, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. The game crossed the billion-dollar milestone seven years after its release.

Nicola Sebastiani, who headed PlayStation Studios Mobile for the last two years, quit Sony.