Only the day before yesterday, the presentation of the new part of Call of Duty ended, but the next day it became known that everything was not all right with the production of the game. Bloomberg has prepared material about unfair working conditions and unfair treatment of contractors in Activision for many years. The same thing happened with other publishers.

Read the full chronology of the large-scale scandal around Blizzard in the material App2Top.ru .

Atari has quarreled with the technology publication The Register after the material about its future product — the Atari VCS console. According to Atari, The Register journalist distorted the words of the company’s representatives and outlined personal speculation instead of objective first-hand data. In response, The Register published an audio recording of the conversation confirming the initial allegations.

On February 20, the Russian developer Black Sun Game Publishing announced a fundraising campaign for the creation of the game “Corsairs: The Black Mark” (“Corsairs 4”). The next day, Dmitry Arkhipov, co-founder of Akella, the developer and publisher of the first three parts, said that the creators of the new game do not have rights to the trademark of the series. App2Top.ru I talked to representatives of both sides of the conflict.

Another scandal at the end of the year. The German developer Crytek has sued the Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) team, which is working on the legendary cosmosim Star Citizen without five minutes.

The Russian Olympic team will be able to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics under the national flag. However, we are talking only about the virtual version of international competitions presented in the Road to the Olympics add-on for Ubisoft’s Steep sports simulator.

The authors of Limbo and INSIDE did not divide the company. As a result of the conflict, one of the founders of the company was paid $7.2 million to leave.

The Russian-Swedish publisher and developer of G5 sued the Russian studio MyTona in connection with non-fulfillment of obligations.

The German company Crytek, famous for the CryEngine engine and the Crysis series of games, delays the salaries of its employees.

Two high-ranking Zynga managers, leaving the company for Scopely, took with them to a new place data about the former employer and several colleagues.

New details have emerged in the litigation between Machine Zone and Kabam. The scandal at the cocktail party, associated with the name of supermodel Kate Upton, develops into an investment story.

The legal scandal surrounding King is not fading this week. While the British company was trying to protect its intellectual property, she herself was accused of theft.

A scandal breaks out in the network. The president of EA Labels said that Apple paid a huge sum for EA to postpone the release of the Android version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 to a later date. Apple claims that this is a lie.

Following the previous news: as part of the massive cuts, Zynga is going to close the studio of OMGPOP, the developer of the acclaimed mobile game Draw Something. 

Right before the closure of the App Store for the weekend, the attackers placed fake applications “based on” Halo 4 in the digital market.

Another sex scandal in the mobile app market. Virtual companions from the children’s game Boyfriend Maker turned out to be very frank guys, ready to talk to a real girl on any forbidden topic. For this application, they removed it from the shelves of the digital store. 

The Tapjoy advertising network is again under pressure from Apple. Glu Mobile has already lowered its financial forecasts for the fourth quarter in this regard. Tapjoy denies everything. 

Those who closely follow Zynga may have noticed that recently the company’s executives have been leaving one by one. The flight became massive after it became known that the financial results of the second quarter were lower than expected.