Activision has announced that it is not going to close Call of Duty: Mobile in the near future. Rumors about the imminent termination of support for the game appeared after the publication of Microsoft‘s response to the British antitrust regulator.

In March last year, Russian IT companies were allowed to temporarily not pay income tax. This benefit should cease to be valid on December 31, 2024, but recently the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposed to make it indefinite.

On March 10, it became known about the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest US bank specializing in high-risk investments in technology startups (it accounted for half of all American venture financing). Many businesses have lost money. Including gaming.

Sony‘s CFO believes that the PS5 will sell over 60 million devices over the entire life cycle of the console. Hiroki Totoki told about this at the Morgan Stanley conference.

The simulator of the border guard Contraband Police, developed by the Polish studio Crazy Rocks, has successfully started. The general director of the PlayWay publishing house Krzysztof Kostowski said that 49 thousand people bought the game in the first two days. This allowed us to recapture all development and marketing costs.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has expanded the list of goods that can be imported into Russia as part of parallel imports. In particular, the list again includes Nintendo products.

Sensor Tower analysts in a large report on mobile games separately talked about the situation in Russia in 2022. It wasn’t very good.

The analytical company Sensor Tower looked at which genres of mobile games were leading last year in terms of revenue and downloads. We share the tops.

Japanese developer and publisher Cygames wants to attract more people to the gaming industry. To do this, the company has launched a scholarship program.

Last year, gaming companies around the world actively greened the planet. The organizers of Green Game Jam 2022 announced that 2.48 million trees were planted as part of their event alone.

Square Enix, in a presentation to investors, confirmed that Forspoken sold worse at the start than the company expected. She did not name the number of copies sold, but noted that sales were “low.”

The head of Epic Games criticized Valve for the limited capabilities of the Steamworks API for multiplayer games. In an interview with the PC Gamer portal, he stated that the company has seriously complicated the lives of both developers and other app stores.

The free distribution of the musical adventure game Figment on Steam has led to a significant increase in the game’s audience. The developers from the indie studio Bedtime Digital Games told about the success of the project in the Steam community.

On January 18, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel celebrated its first birthday. According to Sensor Tower analysts, during the debut year, the game earned more than any other mobile card battler in the period from January 2022 to January 2023.

The Canadian Dynasty Loop has not paid its employees and contractors since January, four employees of the indie studio told the Polygon portal. To date, the company’s debts exceed $2 million.

The state Corporation Roscosmos has announced that its plans for space exploration will form the basis of an educational video game. A test version of the strategy called “Space — the space of the future” will be released on April 12, and the release will take place on September 1.

On March 9, Epic Games introduced a set of publishing tools that are available to all owners of the developer account. However, each game must meet the following requirements:

AppsFlyer marketing company has published a large-scale report on the state of the advertising market in mobile games in 2022. We have selected several key data from it.