The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, stated in an interview with Eurogamer that Baldur’s Gate 3 is much more successful at the early access stage than the studio’s previous game.

China’s majors continue to buy European assets. It became known about the deal between Lightspeed Studios, which is a division of Tencent, and Lucid Games from Liverpool.

MY.GAMES talked about the success of its cooperative shooter Tacticool. She also stated that the game is in the top 5 of her leading projects (in the same place, we recall, – War Robots and Rush Royale).

Bloomberg reports that companies are thinking about the possibility of transferring control over some of their cloud assets in the UK. The goal is to satisfy the local regulator opposed to the merger.

Nikkei Asia reports that Sony Corporation has planned to increase annual spending on video games under the R&D article to ¥300 billion ($2.16 billion). This is more than she will spend in the same period on the development of electronics and semiconductors.

The Canadian Behavior Interactive, known primarily for the cooperative survival Dead by Daylight, apparently, everything is fine. The company is launching its second UK studio this year.

Two English—speaking actors, Brandon Winckler and Corina Boettger, complained about the situation with non-payment on their Twitter pages. For both of them, this step has become an extreme measure: they are running out of money.

The Google Play app store has updated its blockchain policy. Now Android developers have the opportunity to integrate blockchain-based digital content into their products.

Nasdaq has announced a correction. By July 17, it will exclude Activision Blizzard from its indexes.

The FTC announced that it will appeal against the decision of Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley. The latter earlier this week refused to impose a preliminary injunction on the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.

Analytical service data.ai published a report on the state of the mobile market in the first half of 2023. According to him, against the background of a significant increase in revenue from mobile applications, revenue from mobile games continues to fall.

Despite yesterday’s statement by the CMA about its readiness to suspend the conflict with Microsoft and discuss the terms of the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard, today the regulator issued a statement of a completely different nature.

The new practice will apply exclusively to those who work full-time in the company’s London office. Those who work in hybrid mode (either in the office or from home) will have a five-day period.

The Goods and Services Tax Council of India, which includes the country’s leading federal and state ministers, has approved an indirect 28% tax on online gaming, casinos and horse racing.

The Chinese launch of the cooperative shooter Valorant from Riot Games is scheduled for this Wednesday. Tencent is responsible for the local release, which plans to spend more than a billion yuan ($138 million) over the next three years to promote and develop the title as an esports discipline. She also calls Valorant “the most important game published this year.”

The US Video Game Manufacturers Association (Entertainment Software Association) has published an annual Essential Facts study dedicated to the American gaming audience. We share the figures from it.

Yesterday, a California court refused to impose an injunction on the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal, as required by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This decision had a positive impact on the value of the shares of the gaming company.

The studio that developed the Uncharted and Last of Us series is waiting for a reshuffle. Evan Wells, who held the position of its co-president, announced his imminent departure from the company in which he had worked since 1998.

Immediately after the news of Microsoft‘s victory in court over the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which demanded an injunction against the purchase of Activision Blizzard, it became known about the progress in another important trial. We are talking about the confrontation between Microsoft and the Competition and Markets Authority of the United Kingdom (hereinafter — CMA).