Microsoft has appealed to the Competition Court of Appeal in the UK. She asked to reconsider the decision of the antimonopoly regulator, which at the end of April blocked the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

A Chinese court sided with NetEase in a dispute with Alibaba. He agreed that Alibaba copied 79 elements of the Three Kingdoms Tactics mobile strategy from the Invincible game.

Amazon has decided to discontinue the Amazon Appstore in China. It will close on July 17, the newspaper The Paper reports with reference to the company’s letter.

SEGA has reduced the staff at Relic Entertainment studio, known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Age of Empires IV. 121 employees were made redundant.

VK Group announced that self-employed developers will be able to earn money on applications in RuStore. This feature will appear in the near future.

The AppMetrica analytical service has received an update. It has a tool for tracking subscriptions.

What are the trends of the hyper—casual games market worth paying attention to at the moment, – said Sergey Martinkevich, Publishing Lead at Azur Games.

On the afternoon of May 24, the value of Embracer Group‘s shares collapsed by more than 40%. Most likely, the reason was the failure of the $2 billion deal, which the company reported in its annual financial report.

One of the largest shareholders of the Swedish gaming holding EG7 is dissatisfied with the way things are going. Alta Fox appealed to the EG7 board of directors and recommended that alternative business development options, including the sale of the company, be immediately explored.

Embracer Group reported for the last fiscal year ended March 31. She reported an increase in profits and sales, as well as the successes of Dead Island 2 and Metro Exodus.

During the presentation to investors, Sony also revealed sales of PC versions of two games: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and The Last of Us Part I.

Sony held a presentation for investors, where it talked about the business of the company’s gaming division. We have chosen the main thing.

At the Paradox Deep Dive presentation dedicated to the company’s business processes, Paradox Interactive shared statistics on its games over the past ten years. She told which projects managed to become profitable, and which ones did not.

Computer clubs in Russia attract more and more people. According to Vedomosti, with reference to the Langame study, over the period from 2019 to 2022, the number of monthly visitors to clubs doubled to 2.5 million people.

Adobe has added Photoshop integration with Firefly, a family of neural networks that can generate art. Now the editor can “finish” the background according to the text description, as well as change, add and delete objects in images.

Enthusiast Jason Scott has published digitized audio recordings of speeches by representatives of gaming companies at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), held in 1999. The Telegram channel Gamedev suffering drew attention to this.

Deck Nine Games is another game studio that has seen a wave of cuts. According to former narrative designer Elizabeth Ballou, among others, the heads of some teams left the studio. They decided to quit voluntarily so that their subordinates would not lose their jobs.

Japanese police arrested a 52-year-old resident of Nagoya, who posted gameplay videos on YouTube. He was detained on charges of copyright infringement and publication of spoilers.

In the USA, a lawsuit was filed against Nintendo. The company was accused of unfair and immoral use of gacha mechanics in the mobile game Mario Kart Tour.