The US agency ESRB, which issues age ratings to video games, has filed an application with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It wants the agency to approve a new age assessment method.

Shanghai police have arrested a group of people on suspicion of creating and selling cheats for Genshin Impact. This was reported by the game developers from the company miHoYo.

The attackers managed to gain access to the personal data of 3,943 developers who attended Roblox Developers Conferences in 2017-2020. Names, dates of birth, phone numbers, house addresses and even clothing sizes have leaked into the network.

The Chinese microblogging service Weibo has published a list of games, hashtags with the names of which most often fell into the trends of the site in the first half of 2023.

The court seized the bank accounts of the management of Game Insight, Ubisoft removes inactive accounts of gamers along with purchased games, Blizzard responded to criticism of the patch for Diablo IV, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The Independent Federation of the European Video Game Industry (aka ISFE, aka simply Video Games Europe), presented a report on the state of the PC and console games market in the region for the first six months of 2023.

The first fiscal quarter of 2024 for Ubisoft fell on April-June 2023. It turned out to be unsuccessful for the company.

Officially, the amount is invested by the federal agency Screen Australia. The money is distributed through its funds — Games: Expansion Pack and First Nations Games Studio.

Last week, it was reported that an indirect 28% tax on companies engaged in online games and esports was approved in India. Now it turns out that it will apply only to those who trade bets for real money.

ChinaJoy, Asia’s largest gaming exhibition, and WN Media Group, an international organizer of events for video game developers and publishers, have announced a partnership.

In the first half of 2023, the demand for gaming specialists in Russia decreased by more than a third compared to the same period last year.

A new box office hit has appeared on the Chinese mobile market. The game is called Justice Mobile (逆水寒). According to the analytical platform Diandian, its iOS version earned $23.3 million in the first five days of sales.

According to Vedomosti with reference to the XYZ School survey, most of the players from Russia use pirated versions of video games.

In the Blizzard studio, despite record revenues (it received a net $ 1 billion for the first time in the quarter), cuts began. 50 people who specialized in esports lost their places.

A small revolution in the digital PC distribution market. Blizzard will start posting its game titles on the Valve platform.

In just four months of sales, the Resident Evil 4 remake made it into the top 15 best-selling Capcom games.

SberMarketing, Check Index and Rambler &Co conducted a survey of 90 thousand users from Russia regarding video games. We share some figures from it.

In total, in April-June 2023, the company earned $2.2 billion. Of this amount, $520 million is revenue from games, and the remaining $1.6 billion is from micropayments and subscriptions. The company’s net profit for the quarter totaled $587 million.

The reason is the capture of Deputy Minister of Digital Development Maxim Parshin red—handed when handing over a bribe of 3.5 million rubles last Friday.