In the early morning of December 9, a large-scale ceremony of The Game Awards 2022 was held. The title of the game of the year went to Elden Ring, but God of War: Ragnarök took the most awards — six statuettes.

The studio received the entire amount in three parts last month, according to the Estonian Express newspaper.

Kaur Kender, executive producer of Disco Elysium, will not sue Tütreke in Estonia, which allegedly bought out a stake in ZA/UM with the studio’s own money. The developer’s decision was announced by representatives of ZA/UM in the comments GamesIndustry.biz .

The authors of the rhythm shooter Metal: Hellsinger announced that their game has attracted a million people in almost three months since its release. This number includes both those who bought a copy of the title and Game Pass subscribers.

The Swedish Embracer Group holding has become cramped on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market, an exchange on which mainly small and medium—sized companies are traded. He announced that he would switch to Nasdaq Stockholm on December 22.

The Exputer portal, citing sources, reports that at the moment Crystal Dynamics has no plans to create fresh content for Marvel’s Avengers after 2023.

Analysts data.ai It is predicted that in 2022, user spending on mobile games will decrease by 5% in annual terms to $110 billion — for the first time since 2014. In 2023, the decline will continue and amount to 3%.

Publisher Kitfox Games announced that in less than a day Dwarf Fortress sales on Steam exceeded 160 thousand copies. The company expected to sell so much in two months.

At the beginning of the week, the commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on information policy made several proposals related to video games. One of them is to introduce the identification of gamers through services like “Sber ID” and “Yandex ID”. However, at least this proposal has not yet been received by the apparatus of the Russian government.

The head of Valve commented on Microsoft‘s promise to leave the Call of Duty series on Steam for 10 years if the deal with Activision Blizzard takes place. Gabe Newell stated that he was pleased with this offer and takes it as a compliment to Steam.

Keywords Studio s has one more office. A group of companies specializing in gaming outsourcing has launched a division in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Apple has updated the pricing policy of its app store. She said that 900 variants of price tags for their products became available to developers at once.

Japanese police detained Yuji Naka for the second time in the last month. Now he was suspected of insider trading in shares of Ateam Studio, the co—developer of Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier.

The Center for Strategic Research (CSR) has prepared a report in which he told how it is possible to limit the Russian IT sector from foreign influence. Among other things, he suggested that IT companies coordinate with the authorities all “significant corporate actions” of foreigners.

French publisher Homa spoke about the downloads of a mobile arcade about dinosaur battles on LinkedIn.

According to Bloomberg, on December 7, Microsoft executives are going to meet with representatives of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They will try once again to convince the regulator not to block the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Phil Spencer announced that Microsoft has agreed to release Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles after completing the purchase of Activision Blizzard. He also confirmed that the games in the series will continue to be released on Steam at the same time as the release on Xbox.

The Commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on Information Policy has prepared another proposal related to video games. Now she wants games for children to be researched in Russia on a permanent basis.

The proposal was made in the commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on information policy. Officials hope the registry will help limit the spread of “harmful to children” video games in the country.