The Steam team has compiled lists with the most successful games for 2022. Elden Ring, Stray and V Rising were noted among the box office novelties.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Ilya Eremeev, co—founder and General partner The Games Fund (TGF).

Chinese state-owned newspapers Economic Daily and Guangming Daily selected the top 30 companies in the outgoing year whose activities are related to the cultural sphere. Among them was miHoYo.

According to Kommersant, they are going to found a company in Russia that will develop a mobile operating system based on Android. The founders will be VK, Yandex, Sberbank and Rostelecom with the support of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Chile’s antitrust regulator has concluded that the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will not harm competition in the gaming market.

On December 29, the Russian Watt Studio announced the suspension of the creation of the game TRAINS: Through electric storms. The developers said that they could not agree with the Internet Development Institute (IRI) and receive money from the promised grant for 100 million rubles. Soon after, the IRI made an explanation of its position.

We continue the series of interviews in which we summarize the results of the year together with experts and top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones). This time we talked with Marina Lopatina, Director of business development of the recruiting agency WN Talents In Games.

In October, the Internet Development Institute (IRI) allocated a grant of 100 million rubles to the Russian Watt Studio to create the game TRAINS: Through electric storms. In an interview with The House of the Dev portal, the developers admitted that cooperation with Iran did not go according to plan.

Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that in 2023 it will change the terms of the OGL — an open license for creators of Dungeons & Dragons content.

On December 21, the chamber industrial event WN Connect was held in Shenzhen. Its guests were 140 representatives of the Chinese game developer from 112 companies, including ByteDance, Tencent, Roblox, OPPO, Huawei and Round Ventures.

We continue the series of interviews “Results”, in which top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones) tell what the last 12 months have been like for them. This time Dmitry Kuratnik, co-founder and CEO of TapTap studio, shares his results.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants to give Russian companies the opportunity to pay for licenses for software whose developers have left the country. According to Kommersant, the ministry may allow organizations to transfer money for such software to special accounts on demand of the copyright holder.

We continue to sum up the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Ivan Fedyanin, co—founder of the Ducky publishing house.

Nintendo told which eShop games were in the greatest demand among Japanese residents in 2022. The company did not disclose the revenue of the games and the number of copies sold

In 2020, Electronic Arts (EA) introduced an initiative to combat toxicity in games — Positive Play. The idea was successful. According to Chris Bruzzo, executive director of gaming experience, gamers are now complaining about the behavior of other users for a total of only 1% of matches.

To thank for the rapid growth of the shares of the South Korean mobile publisher, it is necessary to issue gaming licenses in China. Yesterday, the Chinese authorities allowed foreign games to be released for the first time in a year and a half, including Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds from Netmarble.

This year, Americans spent 2% less on VR headsets compared to 2021, CNBC reports, citing data from the NPD Group. Their expenses decreased to $1.1 billion.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top continues to publish a series of “Results” materials, in which it interviews top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones) about how the year has passed for their company and the market. Next up is an interview with Vyacheslav Utochkin, co—founder and general producer of the gaming company Geeky House.

We talked about the results of the year with Anton Mikhailov, creative director of the Tortuga Team studio. He told what the studio has managed to do over the past 12 months.