In December 2022, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg sources claim that she did it a few hours after she learned about the plans of the European Commission to start a new stage of negotiations with Microsoft.

The blockchain company Mythical Games is expanding. She announced that she became the owner of the DMarket platform. The size of the transaction is not disclosed.

Sensor Tower has published a report on downloads of mobile games and applications for the fourth quarter of 2022. We tell you what the analysts found out.

The parent company of the creators of Free Fire continues to get rid of foreign business. According to Bloomberg, she is discussing with consultants the sale of the Phoenix Labs studio, known for the Dauntless action.

This is stated in the VK Play study. It was attended by 500 students over the age of 18.

Proletariat employees failed to unite in a trade union. According to the developers, they were prevented by the studio’s CEO Seth Sivak.

Innersloth studio announced that Among Us VR has crossed the millionth milestone in less than 10 weeks since its release.

The fact that Steam, as well as the App Store and other Apple services failed in Russia drew the attention of the domestic media. Some users at the same time reported problems with access to Sony, Microsoft and Electronic Arts services.

On the night of January 25, the survival The Day Before, which is being developed by a studio with Yakut roots Fntastic, disappeared from Steam. According to the company, the store administration blocked the game page at the request of a certain private person who applied for registration of the trademark “The Day Before” in the USA.

Squanch Games has announced that Justin Roiland, the CEO and one of the founders of the studio, is no longer working in it. Royland resigned on January 16 shortly after it became known that he had been accused of domestic violence.

The corporation told about this in the report for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022).

Last week, the National Commission for Information and Freedom of France (CNIL) imposed a fine of €3 million on Voodoo. The agency concluded that the mobile publisher violated the French data protection law.

Translator Yasmina Casado González noticed that the authors of Forspoken selectively approached the compilation of titles. For example, they listed the names of contractor companies instead of the names of specific specialists from these companies.

On January 19, a local WN Connect event was held in Belgrade on the eve of WN Belgrade’23. It was attended by 125 representatives of the Serbian gaming industry, including employees of Microsoft, Ubisoft, tinyBuild and Mad Head Games.

Studio Space Ape Games celebrated a new milestone. Her Beatstar rhythm music game has earned over $100 million since its global release in September 2021.

Activision Blizzard forces managers to periodically rate subordinates, and 5% of ratings must necessarily be low. This was stated by Brian Birmingham, a former lead developer of World of Warcraft Classic. He left the company after he refused to give an employee an undeservedly low rating.

Almost anyone can now become an investor in Skybound Entertainment, which owns the rights to the Walking Dead franchise. The company announced the launch of a fundraiser, the participants of which will receive a share in it.

Microsoft Corporation has announced the expansion of cooperation with OpenAI. She signed a “multibillion-dollar” deal with the developers of the chat bot ChatGPT for a period of several years.

Microsoft has subpoenaed Sony‘s gaming division in court as part of proceedings with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The corporation demanded Sony to disclose information about the volume and schedule of game development.