The Google Play app store has updated its blockchain policy. Now Android developers have the opportunity to integrate blockchain-based digital content into their products.

Nasdaq has announced a correction. By July 17, it will exclude Activision Blizzard from its indexes.

The FTC announced that it will appeal against the decision of Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley. The latter earlier this week refused to impose a preliminary injunction on the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.

Analytical service data.ai published a report on the state of the mobile market in the first half of 2023. According to him, against the background of a significant increase in revenue from mobile applications, revenue from mobile games continues to fall.

Despite yesterday’s statement by the CMA about its readiness to suspend the conflict with Microsoft and discuss the terms of the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard, today the regulator issued a statement of a completely different nature.

The new practice will apply exclusively to those who work full-time in the company’s London office. Those who work in hybrid mode (either in the office or from home) will have a five-day period.

The Goods and Services Tax Council of India, which includes the country’s leading federal and state ministers, has approved an indirect 28% tax on online gaming, casinos and horse racing.

The Chinese launch of the cooperative shooter Valorant from Riot Games is scheduled for this Wednesday. Tencent is responsible for the local release, which plans to spend more than a billion yuan ($138 million) over the next three years to promote and develop the title as an esports discipline. She also calls Valorant “the most important game published this year.”

The US Video Game Manufacturers Association (Entertainment Software Association) has published an annual Essential Facts study dedicated to the American gaming audience. We share the figures from it.

Yesterday, a California court refused to impose an injunction on the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal, as required by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This decision had a positive impact on the value of the shares of the gaming company.

The studio that developed the Uncharted and Last of Us series is waiting for a reshuffle. Evan Wells, who held the position of its co-president, announced his imminent departure from the company in which he had worked since 1998.

Immediately after the news of Microsoft‘s victory in court over the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which demanded an injunction against the purchase of Activision Blizzard, it became known about the progress in another important trial. We are talking about the confrontation between Microsoft and the Competition and Markets Authority of the United Kingdom (hereinafter — CMA).

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied the FTC‘s request to impose a preliminary injunction on Microsoft‘s purchase of Activision Blizzard.

A couple of hours after our publication about Dave The Diver, it became known that the game officially sold one million copies. This was stated by her developer studio Mintrocket, which is one of the Nexon sub-brands.

Israeli developer and publisher of mobile games Playtika received a higher investment rating. The company’s rating was raised from an unsatisfactory level (Underperform) to an average (Neutral). The stock market immediately reacted positively to this.

According to the Steam sales chart for the last week, the main hit of July is the role—playing pixel adventure Dave The Diver from Mintrocket studio (owned by Nexon).

According to Game Developer, Jay Watamaniuk announced his departure from Bioware on July 7. He has been working at the company since 2001. The reasons for the dismissal were not disclosed.

The results of the vote became known the day before. 117 out of more than 200 eligible employees took part in it. 91 participants spoke in favor of forming a trade union called Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS-CWA).

According to GeekWire, the current stage already goes beyond the massive global cuts announced by the company in mid-January (then Microsoft announced the dismissal of 10 thousand people).