The startup Magic Kids, headquartered in New York, believes in educational games, UGC for teachers, children’s multiplayer, and at the same time is looking for a million dollars to scale. About fate and challenges, — in his column for App2Top.ru Olga Vorontsova told the CPO of the team.

Square Enix announced this during the presentation of the quarterly report to investors, analyst David Gibson says on Twitter. What exactly the company meant is not explained.

Square Enix investors were satisfied with the financial report of the Japanese publisher, although the company reported a drop in revenue.

Activision Blizzard did not provide the court with evidence that the salary of its employees does not depend on gender. Earlier, the company specifically analyzed the income of employees, but, apparently, did not submit the results of the study to the court. Now she has to give them to California officials right away.

The Belgian law banning loot boxes in games does not work properly. This conclusion was reached by researcher Leon Yu . Xiao (Leon Y. Xiao). He stated that the law is mostly observed by large companies, while small studios have not changed anything in their titles, while the authorities do not pay attention to violations.

The publisher of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery and Cookie Jam has reduced 17% of the staff, leaving 150-200 people out of work. As Jam City explained, the company had to do so because of the difficulties in the global economy that affected the gaming industry.

Yesterday, Warner Bros. also shared financial indicators for the second quarter of 2022. Discovery. She did not say exactly how much the Warner Bros. division brought in. Games, however, stressed that the contribution of video games to the company’s revenue was “significant.”

Nexters has a significant reshuffle in the board of directors. Ivan Tavrin, the former CEO of Megafon and the current owner of media holding Media-1, is leaving the post of chairman of the board and the company as a whole. Igor Bukhman and Boris Herzovsky will also leave the council.

The new name is pronounced as “play on”. According to the management of the media publisher, it reflects the essence of a company that deals with both movies and games.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game designer at ZiMAD, a senior game designer at F‘ART and a graphic designer at QMobi.

Apple and Google are actively cleaning up their app stores. The Pixalate platform drew attention to the fact that in the second quarter of 2022, companies removed 592 thousand projects from the stores, of which 101 thousand were games.

A reality show about mobile game developers is starting on YouTube. The idea of the project is to show by a live example how to use advertising to scale the performance of mobile games. The author of the show, which is called “Reality for the purchase of traffic“, is game dev blogger Evgeny Grishakov.

Sega Sammy also summed up the financial results of the last quarter. According to the report, the entire Japanese company earned $494 million during this period, which is 11% more than in 2021.

VK Play and ResearchMe conducted a study on esports. They interviewed 1,500 Russians over the age of 18 and found out that only 57% of respondents know about esports (and another 28% have heard of such a term).

Chinese giant Tencent wants to become the largest shareholder of Ubisoft. According to Reuters, citing its own sources, the company plans to buy part of the stake from the Guillemot family, which now owns 15% of the shares.

Two more gaming companies decided to plant trees. Next up are Xsolla and CD PROJEKT RED, who invested in the GamesForest.Club project.

According to Sensor Tower analysts, in January-June 2022, American gamers spent $11.4 billion in mobile games, which is 9.6% less than at the same time a year ago. As a result, the revenue of almost all genres decreased.

Japanese Konami has released a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2023. The company reported that its revenue increased to $536 million, while operating profit fell to $104 million.

In mid-July, Bungie filed a lawsuit against streamer Luca Leone, who threatened studio employees. The Canadian court probably helped to find out his identity, which a month before demanded that the TextNow provider disclose the data of an anonymous attacker/intruders.