Playtika has become a minority owner of Ace Games mobile studio. She has invested $25 million in developers.

Sony is going to strengthen its position in the Chinese market. Bao Bo, head of the regional PlayStation, said that now the company will finance not only small studios, but also large teams.

The Irish government has announced that it is ready to reimburse developers up to 32% of the cost of producing games. According to The Irish Times newspaper, companies from the European Economic Area will be able to claim the deduction.

The Arbitration Court of Moscow has temporarily suspended proceedings on the case of violation of rights conducted between VK and Parity Elevator. The reason for the proceedings is the word “balda”.

This is the conclusion reached by the CNG analytical firm in a report prepared jointly with the Gaming Association of China.

VK Play conducted a study on cyberbullying in games. It was attended by 1,700 Russians aged 15-54 years.

The developers announced the achievement of the free battle royale on the official Twitter account of the Call of Duty franchise. They did not specify how the Warzone 2.0 audience was distributed across platforms.

Microsoft Corporation, in an interview with The New York Times, reported that it made such an offer on November 11, 2022. Sony declined to comment on it.

There is one more Russian mobile app store. MTS has started beta testing of AppBazar. Currently, there are 83 applications in the marketplace library, 55 of which are games.

In the Russian-speaking gaming industry, the news about VK‘s plans to develop a new game engine was met with restraint. The general skepticism was publicly expressed by Sergey Orlovsky, the founder of the Nival studio, part of the intellectual rights and assets of which today belongs to VK.

Russian gamers two weeks before the start of the 2022 World Cup (started on November 20) bought 2.5 times more copies of FIFA 23 than in the first two weeks since the start of sales in Russia. This was announced by the group of companies “M.Video-El Dorado”.

Statistics on the game, which recently turned five years old, was published by Sensor Tower.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy agreed that video games that promote LGBT, violence and drugs should be regulated in Russia. This was announced on her page in VKontakte by the author of the initiative, Yana Lantratova.

According to the authors of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher, the adoption of amendments to the copyright law will significantly complicate the life of gaming companies from Poland.

The head of the Safe Internet League made such a statement during the forum “Children’s Health and Safety”, held in Moscow.

According to GfK, physical sales of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in the UK in the first week were higher than any other games in 2022. Including God of War: Ragnarök and FIFA 23.

In April 2022, an eight-month freeze on the issuance of gaming licenses was completed in China. Despite this, foreign developers still cannot get permission to release projects in China.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 46th week of the year.

The media learned about VK’s plans to develop its own game engine by the end of 2025, one of the composers of God of War: Ragnarök said that she was not indicated in the credits of the game due to non-compliance with the “minimum criteria”, and the French authorities extended the tax benefits program for game developers for six years, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.