The studio-developer of the game Genshin Impact responded to accusations of non-payment of salaries to voice actors.

The studio has become part of the North American team People Can Fly, which has been creating an AAA game based on a new franchise for the past few years.

Analytical platform data.ai analyzed the impact of two viral advertising campaigns, which were filmed with the participation of live actors, on the performance of the game Merge Mansion from the Finnish Metacore.

About the practices that investors resort to to retain the founders of IT companies – in their material for App2Top they toldAlyona Potorskaya and Ekaterina Yakoltsevich, employees of the REVERA law firm.

In July, the ByteBrew platform, which is positioned as a universal solution for working with mobile applications and games, turns two years old. The developer company decided to mark the events by publishing statistics.

The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, stated in an interview with Eurogamer that Baldur’s Gate 3 is much more successful at the early access stage than the studio’s previous game.

China’s majors continue to buy European assets. It became known about the deal between Lightspeed Studios, which is a division of Tencent, and Lucid Games from Liverpool.

MY.GAMES talked about the success of its cooperative shooter Tacticool. She also stated that the game is in the top 5 of her leading projects (in the same place, we recall, – War Robots and Rush Royale).

Bloomberg reports that companies are thinking about the possibility of transferring control over some of their cloud assets in the UK. The goal is to satisfy the local regulator opposed to the merger.

Nikkei Asia reports that Sony Corporation has planned to increase annual spending on video games under the R&D article to ¥300 billion ($2.16 billion). This is more than she will spend in the same period on the development of electronics and semiconductors.

The Canadian Behavior Interactive, known primarily for the cooperative survival Dead by Daylight, apparently, everything is fine. The company is launching its second UK studio this year.

Two English—speaking actors, Brandon Winckler and Corina Boettger, complained about the situation with non-payment on their Twitter pages. For both of them, this step has become an extreme measure: they are running out of money.

The Google Play app store has updated its blockchain policy. Now Android developers have the opportunity to integrate blockchain-based digital content into their products.

Nasdaq has announced a correction. By July 17, it will exclude Activision Blizzard from its indexes.

The FTC announced that it will appeal against the decision of Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley. The latter earlier this week refused to impose a preliminary injunction on the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.

Analytical service data.ai published a report on the state of the mobile market in the first half of 2023. According to him, against the background of a significant increase in revenue from mobile applications, revenue from mobile games continues to fall.

Despite yesterday’s statement by the CMA about its readiness to suspend the conflict with Microsoft and discuss the terms of the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard, today the regulator issued a statement of a completely different nature.

The new practice will apply exclusively to those who work full-time in the company’s London office. Those who work in hybrid mode (either in the office or from home) will have a five-day period.