On December 20, Mark Zuckerberg appeared in court in the case of the purchase of the VR developer Within Unlimited. The head of Meta* tried to prove that this deal would not make his company a monopolist in the nascent market of fitness games for virtual reality.

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 Yaminsky, co-founder of Azur Games, shares his results.

Square Enix has shared the latest sales data for the tactical RPG Triangle Strategy. The company announced that to date, the title has been bought more than a million times — both in “digital” and in the form of cartridges.

The Streams Charts portal compared the games released in 2022 by the number of hours of views on Twitch that they scored in the first month after release. The leader of the rating was Elden Ring.

Microsoft is planning another major purchase. According to Reuters, next year it may announce the purchase of Netflix for $ 190 billion.

The European antimonopoly regulator continues to collect information about how the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation may affect the gaming market. According to Reuters, in December, the European Commission sent a large questionnaire to developers, publishers and distributors of games, as well as suppliers of operating systems for PC.

10 American gamers decided to challenge the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. They filed their own lawsuit in the federal court of California.

The British consumer Protection organization Which? conducted a new study on the drift of Joy-Con sticks for the Nintendo Switch. She found out that dust gets inside the rollers, and the plastic in the contact points wears out after a few months of use — this leads to breakage.

Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the designers of the Steam Deck, said that Valve directly transfers money to more than 100 third-party developers of open source software. They help the company with work on the Proton compatibility layer, Mesa and Vulkan drivers, as well as Steam support on Linux devices and chromebooks.

This is 10% of the total number of IT specialists working in Russian companies. Such data were announced by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation at a meeting in the State Duma.

Atari has decided to curtail the production of the Atari VCS console. In a recent financial report, she said that she refused the device because of its low demand. However, the company is ready to sell the license for the production of Atari VCS to third-party firms.

We continue to summarize the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Kirill Perevozchikov, the founder of the White Label PR agency.

Yesterday, Epic Games announced that it managed to reach an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and settle two lawsuits over Fortnite. One lawsuit was about the confusing design of an in-game store and pushing for purchases in Fortnite, the other was about violating the privacy of children.

The British company nDreams, specializing in VR games, made its first purchase. She purchased the Near Light studio for an undisclosed sum.

The comedy shooter from the creator of “Rick and Morty” took first place in the list of the most popular games within the Game Pass subscription. He managed to beat the popularity of such hits of the service as Minecraft and Forza Horizon 5.

Andrew Bosworth, technical director of Meta*, wrote a post on the company’s blog about the work of the Reality Labs division.

Apple is facing a new fine. The Paris court ruled that the company had created unfavorable commercial conditions for developers in the App Store, and demanded to pay a fine of € 1 million.

This Wednesday, WN Connect will be held in Shenzhen. ByteDance, Tencent, Roblox, OPPO, Huawei, Azur Games, Round Ventures and many other companies operating in the Celestial market are expected to attend it.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top continues to publish interviews from the “Results” series, in which it interviews 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 Kirill Zolovkin, an indie developer and founder of the Heart Core studio.