On April 26, the company miHoYo, previously noted for the popular Genshin Impact, released a turn-based RPG Honkai: Star Rail on PC and smartphones. The very next day, the game’s downloads exceeded 20 million.

On April 26, the British regulator imposed a ban on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Microsoft President Brad Smith said on the BBC that he was disappointed with this decision and believes that it will have a bad impact on the UK itself.

In the first quarter of 2023, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of € 5.2 million, according to the portal dev.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax inspectorate. This is more than any other IT company in the country.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: a leading UA manager at Dankolab, a game designer at Airicore and the head of sales in the Payler gaming direction.

Microsoft Corporation tried to acquire a publisher engaged in mobile games. Mention of this is in the report of the British regulator, which is dedicated to the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

The Reality Labs division working on augmented reality technologies remains unprofitable for Meta*. In a recent financial report, the company said that the losses of Reality Labs for the first quarter of 2023 amounted to $3.99 billion – 34.8% more than last year.

miHoYo has a new hit. According to the AppMagic service, a turn—based RPG in the Honkai: Star Rail space setting has earned over $6 million in a day since its release – this is only on mobile devices.

In Tokyo, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, the chairman of Kadokawa Corporation, which, among other things, includes the FromSoftware studio, was released from custody. The court decided to release the 79-year-old businessman on bail of 200 million ($ 1.5 million).

On April 26, Activision Blizzard published a financial report for the first quarter of 2023. The revenue of all its divisions has increased.

The ultra-realistic shooter Unrecord, whose gameplay videos are considered fake by many users due to the fact that they are indistinguishable from video shooting, has made a noise.

China’s NetEase has announced the launch of another foreign studio — anchorPoint Studios. Her team includes developers Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2, Control and The Division.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko is dissatisfied with the way Russian characters are portrayed in Western video games. In his opinion, the developers are trying to form a negative image of Russia.

Tencent wants to strengthen itself outside of China and protect its business from the growing control of the Chinese authorities. According to the Financial Times, citing sources, the holding intends to actively buy shares in foreign studios. First of all, in European countries.

The British regulator blocked the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency concluded that it harms competition in the cloud gaming market.

Recently, the Kazakh authorities announced that from July 1, local organizations will be able to officially switch to a four-day working week. Gaming companies around the world are also actively changing the format to a “four-day”. Skillsearch recruitment agency found out from the developers what they think about such a work schedule.

Microsoft expects that UK and EU regulators will approve the takeover of Activision Blizzard, according to sources of the New York Post newspaper. After that, she will be able to negotiate with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which previously sued the corporation.

Earlier this week, the media reported that NetEase decided to sue Blizzard Entertainment over the closure of games in China and filed a lawsuit for $43.5 million. Now it turned out that the author of the claim is not NetEase, but a disgruntled Chinese gamer.

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.

Microsoft reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on March 31. According to a number of indicators, it became a record for the gaming division.