Minecraft has a new achievement. During the presentation of Minecraft Live 2023, Mojang Studio announced that sales of the game exceeded 300 million copies.

Recently, Bloomberg sources reported that the deputy heads of Disney Bob Iger (Bob Iger) offered to buy a major publisher. For example, Electronic Arts (EA). Forbes journalists in a new article shared their opinion on why a deal between Disney and EA is a bad idea.

Generative AI For Business, a conference on working with neural networks and artificial intelligence, will be held in San Francisco on October 23. Among the speakers are leads Scenario.com , Luma AI, Layer AI, MongoDB, Lightspeed and many other companies.

The Swedish Fragbite Group has announced the purchase of the Fall Damage studio. The size of the transaction was 20 million Swedish kronor ($1.8 million).

The head of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, will continue to lead the company. He will be its CEO at least until the end of 2023.

The most expensive takeover in the history of the gaming industry has ended. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard 20 months after the deal was announced.

On October 12, the gaming press began publishing soulslike reviews of Lords of the Fallen. The game received mixed reviews. Against this background, the shares of CI Games, the company that published the game, fell by 18% in a day, according to Reuters.

At the end of 2021, mobile games appeared in the Netflix catalog. According to MobileGamer with reference to the data of the AppMagic service, to date they have been downloaded a total of 82 million times.

AppLovin could be interested in buying Unity again after the scandal over the Runtime Fee and the departure of Unity CEO John Riccitiello. Citibank analysts think so.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency finally came to the conclusion that the takeover will not harm competition in the cloud gaming market.

Total user spending in Scopely mobile games has exceeded $7.6 billion, according to AppMagic analysts.

Valve has decided to increase the security level of Steamworks. The company notified the developers that now they will need to link a phone number to the account.

Nekki has decided to enter the Web3 gaming market. She presented the HTML5 browser-based game Fight Me, a fighting game in a fantastic setting in which NFTS will appear.

Daedalic Entertainment studio commented on the words of Game Two sources claiming that the text apologizing for the unsuccessful release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was written using ChatGPT. She said it wasn’t true.

On October 10, Paradox Interactive reported failed sales of the tactical game The Lamplighters League. After that, the network remembered that in July the company fired some of the employees of Harebrained Schemes, the studio that developed the title.

Restructuring in Team17 may affect more people than previously reported. According to Eurogamer sources, the company is preparing to lay off 91 employees.

Snail Games publisher and Studio Wildcard have settled a conflict with the Chinese Angela Game, which created the Myth of Empires multiplayer sandbox. In December 2021, the companies accused her of stealing the source code of ARK: Survival Evolved.

The launch of tax breaks for gaming companies has had a good effect on the UK economy. The consulting firm Games Investor Consulting (GIC) estimated that their contribution to the economic growth of the country amounted to £2.4 billion.