Microsoft has sent an official response to the lawsuit of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In the documents, she indicated that she is not such a big player in the game dev industry.

The money was given to her by Sergey Novikov, one of the founders of Incircle Group and CEO of Pepperfund.

By the end of 2024, esports courses may appear in Russian universities. This is reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the roadmap “New System-wide Software” (NOPO) approved on December 16.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: a product analyst at Playkot, a leading UA manager at Dankolab and the head of sales in the Payler gaming direction.

The British publisher Kwalee boasted that the total downloads of its mobile titles reached 969 million. Over 200 million of them were collected by the games in 2022 alone.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein said that, according to the new law, games with LGBT propaganda should also be inaccessible to Russian users. According to him, the stores will have to delete or hide such projects for Russia.

Last week, Pony Ma, the co-founder and CEO of Tencent, addressed the employees with an appeal. He stated that he was dissatisfied with the work of almost all departments.

Crystal Dynamics announced that for 26 years, the games included in the Tomb Raider series have sold 95 million copies.

The organizers of the Indie Cup competition told about plans to launch the Ukrainian Games portal. They want to collect all the information about Ukrainian games and developers in one place.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top publishes a series of materials “Results”, in which it polls top managers 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 Sergey Belyaev, co—founder of the Infusion Games studio.

Playtika has announced a partnership with two Israeli educational institutions at once: Reichman University and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard Entertainment, spoke about the results of 2022 for his company.

Three-quarters of the British public are in favor of the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. This was announced by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after examining over 2.6 thousand letters sent to him.

Last week, the Russian government approved a roadmap called “New System-wide Software” (NOPO). It includes projects on the development of domestic analogues of foreign software. As Kommersant noted, the VK game engine was among such projects.

The French publisher of hyper-casual games TapNation announced the overcoming of the new milestone. Now the company has 750 million installations in its piggy bank.

InnoGames stated that it became much easier for it to hire new employees after it began to openly publish information about salary forks. After implementing the new policy, the company managed to close all 19 vacancies in just two months.

The recruitment agency Talents In Games has announced the launch of an open vote and invites you to take part in it. The winners will become laureates of the Game Dev HR Awards 2022.

Czech Bohemia Interactive told how the year 2022 passed for DayZ survival. We have selected a few figures from the report.

The other day, an analyst at Benji-Sales suggested that High on Life showed the best start in Game Pass for 2022. Microsoft confirmed his observation and named two more achievements of the comedy shooter.