The French publisher Focus Entertainment shared the results of the third financial quarter, which ended on December 31, 2022. During this period, he earned €76.1 million — €39 million more than a year earlier.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference have published an annual large-scale study on the state of the gaming industry. As part of it, over 2,300 developers were interviewed.

The creators of League of Legends, in a comment for journalist Jacob Wolf, reported that they had indeed fired a number of employees. In total, 46 people were cut — this is less than 1% of the Riot Games staff.

Reuters has learned that the Israeli holding company Playtika has made a proposal to consolidate with the Finnish developer and publisher of games Rovio, best known for the Angry Birds franchise.

This figure was called by the portal MobileGamer.biz , who studied the data of the AppMagic service.

Microsoft continues to defend the purchase of Activision Blizzard. As noted by Stephen Totilo from Axios, she recently asked the court to postpone consideration of a lawsuit from 10 American gamers until the proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are completed.

Drake Star estimates that in 2022, the volume of announced and/or closed M&A agreements, investments and public offerings in the gaming industry amounted to $127 billion. This is 78.8% more than a year earlier.

Journalist Jacob Wolf reported that Riot Games has also started firing employees. According to him, the cuts take place in the HR, support and esports departments.

Last week, Yves Guillemot made an unfortunate statement. In a letter to employees, he indicated that the fate of Ubisoft is in the hands of developers, and urged developers to give their all. Now the head of the publishing house has apologized for incorrectly chosen words.

On January 18, Microsoft confirmed that it would lay off 10,000 people. As it became known to the media, among others, developers from Bethesda, 343 Industries and The Coalition were reduced.

On January 17, the American Xsolla Holding Company became the almost complete owner of the three Perm “daughters” of Xsolla. As RB writes.RU with reference to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, she now owns shares in the amount of 99.99% in LLC “Ixolla”, LLC “System Projects” and LLC “Ixolla Games”.

The European Federation of Game Developers (EGDF) has published an appeal in which it expressed support for the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. She said that the deal will bring more benefits to the gaming industry than harm.

On January 17, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it had asked NetEase to temporarily extend the partnership, but was refused. Soon, the Chinese company issued a response statement in which it criticized the terms of the deal and the developers themselves.

VK has added a new type of monetization to RuStore. Paid applications have become available in the marketplace.

Unity is also making cuts. She announced that she would lay off 284 people.

Sky News, citing sources, reported that Microsoft plans to cut 5% of the corporation’s staff. It is assumed that the dismissals will be announced in the near future.

Apple must pay a fine of $17 million or 1.17 billion rubles in Russia. The fine was imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS), — the agency was not satisfied that Apple was imposing the App Store payment system on developers.

In 2022, China’s gaming market earned $40.1 billion, which is 10.3% less than the previous year. As noted by SCMP with reference to the data of the Association of Audio-Video and Digital Publishers of China, previously for two decades the market revenue only grew.

Blizzard Entertainment wrote on Weibo that it tried to extend the agreement with NetEase for another six months, but without success.