What to do if you need to protect yourself from copying the name of the game and cloning it, — says in his column for App2Top.ru Nika Vartanova, lawyer at VERSUS.legal.

The deal between Microsoft and ZeniMax Media officially ended yesterday. On this occasion, Phil Spencer finally directly answered the question that has been worrying since September: what will happen to the games of the acquired company? He did not open all the cards, but confirmed that at least some of the new games from Bethesda will indeed be released exclusively for PC and Xbox.

A publisher with Latvian roots tinyBuild, known for the Hello Neighbor franchise, has entered the stock market. During the IPO, the company raised £154 million ($213.7 million), and its market value rose to £340.58 million ($472.6 million).

Wanted: creative director-screenwriter at Playrix, producer at Green Pixel and game designer at Deus Craft.

Developer and publisher KamaGames has reported financial results for 2020. The company’s revenue grew by almost 40%, and in terms of profit, last year was a record at all.

Germany is seriously concerned about the problem of loot boxes and their impact on minors. Now the authorities are preparing a special reform that may prohibit the sale of games with similar mechanics to minors.

Loop Hero is a bagel with indirect control from the Russian indie studio Four Quarters and publisher Devolver Digital. In just a day after the release, more than 150 thousand people played the game, and its peak online was almost 40 thousand.

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.