The analytical resource “Check Index” has published a report on the sales of gaming equipment in Russia for the first ten months of 2022. Below are a few facts from it.

Blocking an account on Steam has had a bad effect on the value of SimFabric shares. According to the information Bankier.pl , the shares of the Polish developer fell by 17.5% to 4 zlotys or $0.22 apiece.

Vladimir Potanin‘s holding has become interested in an engine for mobile applications and games. Interros can invest in its development through its Voskhod venture fund.

Games by the Polish studio SimFabric disappeared from Steam. The reason could be dishonest behavior of developers.

The Yumopeu service shared statistics on spending by Russian gamers in January-October 2022.

Employees of the universities of Newcastle and Loughborough studied how loot boxes in games affect minors. The findings of the study were not the most positive.

The launch of Victoria 3 has become one of the most successful in the history of Paradox Interactive. According to the publisher, sales of the strategy reached 500 thousand in a little more than a month.

MY.GAMES cannot agree with some foreign companies on the renewal of licenses for games. Because of this, she decided to abandon the controversial titles and is now looking for buyers for them.

It has become more difficult for residents of Pakistan to make purchases in foreign applications, including games. The country’s authorities have banned paying for purchases with money from a mobile phone account.

Brazilian Wildlife Studios, known for the mobile games Zooba and Tennis Clash, has problems. According to the information MobileGamer.biz , she fired 300 people. This is more than a third of the company’s staff.

AppsFlyer marketing company has published a report on retention (retention level) on mobile platforms for the third quarter of 2022. There is no good news.

Konami has announced a new achievement of the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. It took the project ten months to reach the bar of 50 million downloads.

VK has announced the official release of the VK Play Live streaming service. She also announced a program to support small streamers.

In October, it became known that Playrix was completely leaving both Russia and Belarus. A month later, the company found a new owner for the Belarusian asset (Playrix Bi-Way). He became a certain Vladimir Akimov.

Apple summed up the results of the year. She named the games that she considered the best for her devices in 2022.

The District Court of the Northern District of California has consolidated several Google Play-related lawsuits into one. Now it is filed on behalf of 21 million American users at once.

Australian MP Andrew Wilkie has introduced a bill on loot boxes. He suggested labeling games with this mechanics so that minors could not buy them.

Now the Chinese giant owns a 5.01% stake. Tencent controls it through its subsidiary Image Frame Investment.

According to Reuters sources, Microsoft wants to avoid objections from the European regulator checking its deal with Activision Blizzard. For this, she will make concessions in the coming weeks.