Microsoft is planning another major purchase. According to Reuters, next year it may announce the purchase of Netflix for $ 190 billion.

The European antimonopoly regulator continues to collect information about how the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation may affect the gaming market. According to Reuters, in December, the European Commission sent a large questionnaire to developers, publishers and distributors of games, as well as suppliers of operating systems for PC.

10 American gamers decided to challenge the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. They filed their own lawsuit in the federal court of California.

The British consumer Protection organization Which? conducted a new study on the drift of Joy-Con sticks for the Nintendo Switch. She found out that dust gets inside the rollers, and the plastic in the contact points wears out after a few months of use — this leads to breakage.

Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the designers of the Steam Deck, said that Valve directly transfers money to more than 100 third-party developers of open source software. They help the company with work on the Proton compatibility layer, Mesa and Vulkan drivers, as well as Steam support on Linux devices and chromebooks.

This is 10% of the total number of IT specialists working in Russian companies. Such data were announced by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation at a meeting in the State Duma.

Atari has decided to curtail the production of the Atari VCS console. In a recent financial report, she said that she refused the device because of its low demand. However, the company is ready to sell the license for the production of Atari VCS to third-party firms.

We continue to summarize the results of 2022 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Kirill Perevozchikov, the founder of the White Label PR agency.

Yesterday, Epic Games announced that it managed to reach an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and settle two lawsuits over Fortnite. One lawsuit was about the confusing design of an in-game store and pushing for purchases in Fortnite, the other was about violating the privacy of children.

The British company nDreams, specializing in VR games, made its first purchase. She purchased the Near Light studio for an undisclosed sum.

The comedy shooter from the creator of “Rick and Morty” took first place in the list of the most popular games within the Game Pass subscription. He managed to beat the popularity of such hits of the service as Minecraft and Forza Horizon 5.

Andrew Bosworth, technical director of Meta*, wrote a post on the company’s blog about the work of the Reality Labs division.

Apple is facing a new fine. The Paris court ruled that the company had created unfavorable commercial conditions for developers in the App Store, and demanded to pay a fine of € 1 million.

This Wednesday, WN Connect will be held in Shenzhen. ByteDance, Tencent, Roblox, OPPO, Huawei, Azur Games, Round Ventures and many other companies operating in the Celestial market are expected to attend it.

On the eve of the New Year, App2Top continues to publish interviews from the “Results” series, in which it interviews top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones) about how the year has passed for their company and the market. Next up is an interview with Kirill Zolovkin, an indie developer and founder of the Heart Core studio.

This was stated by the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadaev.

In a recent report, Appodeal told how things are going with the eCPM indicator (the effective cost of one thousand impressions) in mobile applications in the Christmas season of 2022. Below are a few conclusions from it.

Daniel Alegre, president of Activision Blizzard, has decided to quit. According to documents for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, his last working day at the company will be March 31, 2023.

The Bombora publishing house has a replenishment in the collection of game works. The book “The Creation of the Bioshock trilogy. From Delight to Colombia.” It not only gives an excursion into the history of the development of the famous franchise, but also tells in detail about the details of the BioShock universe and the meaning inherent in them.