Microsoft is closer than ever to completing the purchase of ZeniMax. Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officially approved a deal worth $7.5 billion. Now the decision has to be made by the European Commission.

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Piotr Karbowski, CEO of CreativeForge Games (part of PlayWay).Peter Karbowski

Former developers of League of Legends, Halo, Overwatch and Dota 2 have founded a studio that will create multiplatform PvP titles. They have already raised $37.5 million, including from the Chinese giant NetEase.

Even five months after the release of Genshin Impact remains one of the highest-grossing mobile games in the world. According to analysts, during this time she collected $ 874 million only in the App Store and Google Play.

The MY.GAMES gaming brand has reported results for 2020. The company reported that its revenue grew by almost a third year-on-year and surpassed the mark of half a billion dollars. At the same time, more than 70% of revenues were provided by mobile games.Key data

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Pawel Olszewski, business development manager at the Polish publishing house Movie Games.

Officials propose to levy a tax on foreign companies that work with the data of Russian citizens. For example, they collect them for advertising campaigns. The initiative is already being compared with the “Google tax”, and they want to direct the money collected with its help to support the domestic IT sphere.This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the participants of the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

On March 1, a law came into force that changes the rules for processing personal data in Russia. It also applies to video games. How exactly — we figured out with the lawyers from VERSUS.legal and Semenov&Pevzner.What changes the law?

How should children’s mobile apps be promoted and what should be taken into account in this case — in your column for App2Top.ru Mikhail Kotlov, CEO of the company IntellectoKids, told.

The Russian company Pixonic released the shooter War Robots back in April 2014. After almost seven years, the game continues to earn. Moreover, of the $500 million earned by her all the time, half of the amount fell on the last three years.

Zynga intends to move its mobile franchises to PCs and consoles. For these purposes, the publisher acquired the studio Echtra Games, known for action / RPG Torchlight III.The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The analytical company Sensor Tower told how things were with mobile genres in 2020. Hyper-casual games turned out to be the most successful in terms of downloads, but RPG projects got the most money again.

The Sinking City scandal continues. The game was again withdrawn from sale on Steam. It is unknown whether Frogwares studio has anything to do with this, but Valve had to delete this version of the project after receiving a DMCA complaint.Now the link to The Sinking City page on Steam automatically redirects users to the main page of the store.

Consolidation continues in the gaming market. Epic Games became the owner of Tonic Games Group— the parent company of Mediatonic Studio. The latter developed the popular battle royale Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.

Wanted: game designer for monetization at RJ Games, tester at Kefir and 3D animator at Last Level.

Marketing company Vungle has announced a new takeover. It includes the GameRefinery service, specializing in the analysis of mobile games. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Finnish scientists decided to treat depression with video games. They started developing an action game that should seriously weaken the symptoms of the disease. But they warned — the game still won’t replace pills and psychotherapy.

The Ukrainian studio Frogwares commented on the situation around the re-release of The Sinking City on Steam. The developers claim that Nacon has spiraled and modified a copy of the game. At the same time, the publisher believes that the studio, to which she allegedly has already paid over € 10 million, refuses to make contact.