The situation around the harassment investigation at Activision Blizzard is getting more complicated. The California Department of Fair Employment and Placement (DFEH) believes that a peace agreement concluded between a gaming company and one of the federal agencies will harm the lawsuit. At the same time, the Department itself is accused of violating professional ethics.The beginning of the conflict

Wanted: a game designer at Azur Games, a junior narrative designer at ZAVOD Games and a manager for organizing business events at WN Media Group.

Mobile publisher Homa Games has closed a Series A funding round, receiving $50 million from investors. The publisher will spend the money on developing its technology stack, which helps games track and improve performance. He also plans to promote a new hyper—casual subgenre – arcade idlers.

Mail.ru The Group was renamed VK. As part of the rebranding, the group of companies updated the logo and announced the creation of a single ecosystem that will unite all existing and new services. Some products will be renamed.This was announced by the company’s CEO Boris Dobrodeev during a news broadcast.

IO Interactive summed up the results of a very successful 2021. In many ways, the phenomenal sales of Hitman 3 contributed to the financial success of the studio. We publish the main thing from the report.

Mobile studio Original Games, founded two years ago by veterans of Machine Zone and Rovio, has closed the seed round of funding. She raised $6 million from investors. The money will be used to develop the Merge Inn game.

The producer of the Recontact game franchise, Simay Dinc, has launched the CATS of Small Village creative camp for Turkish children from villages and small towns. Dinge believes that this is a great project for training and attracting young talents to the video game industry.

Tencent continues to invest in Western developers. Recently, the Chinese giant acquired 21.97% of the shares of the Polish studio Bloober Team, becoming its largest shareholder. The transaction amount was 77.6 million Polish zloty ($19.5 million).The Medium

A month ago, Apple doubted whether it should appeal the verdict of the court in the case with Epic Games. But last Friday, the company decided and filed an appeal. According to experts, the proceedings can drag on for years.

Ivan Agarkov, Production Security Team Lead at Wargaming, wrote a big thread about salaries in the IT sphere. He spoke about the basic principles of the formation of the labor market, the importance of soft skills, the difference in salaries for women and men, and negotiations for an increase. We chose the main thing from Agarkov’s thread.

Registration for the SmartMarket Cup: HTML5 Games has started — the first Sbera tournament for creating and porting HTML5 games. 1.5 million rubles will be divided between the winners.

MY.GAMES decided to strengthen its position in the western market. The company has made Philippe Sauze, former vice president of Activision Blizzard, the head of its Amsterdam office.

For the second week in a row, the Steam bestseller chart is headed by New World — according to the results of last week, the game again remained in first place. But Battlefield 2042 also had strong sales. Shooter took the next three places in the ranking.

A mobile game based on the TV series “The Walking Dead” The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land celebrates its birthday — the project has turned 6 years since its release in 2015. In honor of this event, the creators of the game summed up the interim results.

Facebook wants to motivate developers and creators to create content for the Horizon Worlds social VR platform, which is currently in beta testing. To do this, the company launched its own fund.

Another studio decided to switch to a four-day working week. Eidos Montreal has announced that it will no longer work on Fridays. Separately, the developer of the Deus Ex and Tomb Raider series clarified that the new schedule will not affect the working conditions and salaries of employees in any way.Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

The Antimonopoly Authority of the Netherlands was the first in the world to recognize Apple as a monopolist due to the payment rules of the App Store. The regulator demanded that the company change its store policy. Apple has already prepared an appeal.

A small studio Aggro Crab Games acted as a publisher of the indie horror Subway Midnight and attracted attention with an unusual publishing contract. She will not claim a share of the proceeds until the sales of the project reach 10 thousand copies. This decision caused a strong reaction in the community.Subway Midnight

The drains of data on streamers’ earnings upset game designer Cliff Bleszinski. He shared his indignation with his Twitter followers.