Microsoft has published a report for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on June 30. According to analysts, this period was the second best fourth quarter for the gaming division of the corporation.

In November 2022, Rollic Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two, announced the purchase of the German developer and publisher of mobile games Popcore Games. It became known that the takeover cost $199.2 million or €180 million.

The European Commission has supported the proposal of the Belgian government to create a tax haven in the country for companies that invest money in game studios.

The third issue of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group, has been released. This time his guest was Thibault de Vésinne-Larue, Voodoo‘s head of publishing. We share a brief squeeze of the release.

Indie developer and consultant Rami Ismail has posted a game pitch template in the public domain. It will help beginners avoid common mistakes during the presentation of projects to a publisher or investor.

In the UK, a class action lawsuit was brought against Apple for £785 million, or about $ 1 billion. The subject of the claim is a high commission in the App Store.

VK has allowed foreign developers to earn money on applications published in RuStore. Monetization tools have become available to them.

Capcom has announced that more than a million people have played Exoprimal. The figure takes into account both Game Pass subscribers and gamers who have purchased the game on other platforms.

On July 24, the zombie shooter Left to Survive celebrated its fifth anniversary. On this occasion, MY.GAMES shared statistics about the game.

The Chinese colossus is preparing for another major deal. Tencent will acquire a key Techland package. This was announced by Pawel Marchewka, the founder and permanent CEO of the Polish company.

The court proceedings in the case of the recognition of the Russian “Game Insight” bankrupt have reached a new stage. The Arbitration Court of the city of Moscow not only decided to seize the accounts of people connected with the attempt to leave Russian employees of the company without salaries, but also ordered to recover about € 2 million from the Lithuanian Game Insight.

The US agency ESRB, which issues age ratings to video games, has filed an application with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It wants the agency to approve a new age assessment method.

Shanghai police have arrested a group of people on suspicion of creating and selling cheats for Genshin Impact. This was reported by the game developers from the company miHoYo.

The attackers managed to gain access to the personal data of 3,943 developers who attended Roblox Developers Conferences in 2017-2020. Names, dates of birth, phone numbers, house addresses and even clothing sizes have leaked into the network.

The Chinese microblogging service Weibo has published a list of games, hashtags with the names of which most often fell into the trends of the site in the first half of 2023.

The court seized the bank accounts of the management of Game Insight, Ubisoft removes inactive accounts of gamers along with purchased games, Blizzard responded to criticism of the patch for Diablo IV, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The Independent Federation of the European Video Game Industry (aka ISFE, aka simply Video Games Europe), presented a report on the state of the PC and console games market in the region for the first six months of 2023.

The first fiscal quarter of 2024 for Ubisoft fell on April-June 2023. It turned out to be unsuccessful for the company.

Officially, the amount is invested by the federal agency Screen Australia. The money is distributed through its funds — Games: Expansion Pack and First Nations Games Studio.