Last Thursday, June 8, the international WN Conference in Istanbul ended. We share its results in figures and graphs.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past May.

FunPlus and KingsGroup may soon receive a third lawsuit related to sales in their games. Now false discounts have been noticed in the Guns of Glory strategy.

The development of Skull and Bones is expensive for Ubisoft. In order for the company to consider the launch of the game a success, the pirate action on the release should fetch at least $ 300 million. This assessment was shared by analyst Roberto Serrano.

Saudi Arabia is actively expanding into the gaming industry. The Financial Times newspaper estimated that over the past 18 months, the Savvy Games Group and the Public Investment Fund, controlled by the authorities, have invested $8 billion in gaming companies.

The Wargaming company will help people who suffered after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya HPP. She announced that she would donate UAH 4 million (approximately $108.25 thousand) as part of the United24 initiative.

Another game studio is closing. American mobile developer Nifty Games has announced that it will soon stop working.

The UK government has announced that it will transfer £5 million to the UK Games Fund. The Foundation provides grants to British gaming startups and helps to attract additional funding.

John Cooney, who heads the indie publisher Armor Games, has decided to leave the post of CEO. He will leave the company in the coming days.

A court in the United States imposed a temporary ban on the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. This was requested by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Turkish developer and publisher Good Job Games has sold its hyper-casual games to AI Games, owned by Azur Games. The purchase amount is not disclosed.

On the morning of June 13, the Swedish holding Embracer Group announced a restructuring and immediately reshuffled its management. He announced that one of the founders of Saber Interactive, Matthew Karch, is stepping down as CEO of the company.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has appealed to a California court with a request to temporarily ban Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. The agency wants the court to prevent the corporation from closing the deal until the proceedings on it take place in the United States.

The Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI) intends to perpetuate Russian video games in history. To do this, she will open a domestic Hall of Fame.

The Swedish Embracer Group has decided to restructure. As part of it, the company will close or sell a number of studios. Which ones are not specified.

Blizzard Entertainment announced that the revenue of Diablo IV reached $666 million. The game took this mark five days after the release, showing the most successful start in the history of the company.

The analytical company Newzoo has studied how the release of DLC affects the size of the audience of games for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. We share the main conclusions from the report.

Quantic Dream has a new publishing division — Spotlight. The company presented its first games under this label at the opening ceremony of Summer Game Fest.