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.

Mac Walters has announced that he is leaving BioWare. He has worked for the company for more than 19 years.

This is more than a quarter of the gaming industry’s revenue over the past year, according to Omdia analysts.

On the ResetEra forum, it was finally forbidden to mention Hogwarts Legacy. The pretext was again the statements of the writer Joanne Rowling about the transgender community.

The word puzzle Quordle now belongs to the publisher of the American dictionary Merriam-Webster. The size and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

This allowed the title to take 20th place in the British retail chart at the end of last week, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data.

At the end of last year, several large Russian software developer associations made a request to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. They proposed to permanently leave the income tax rate for accredited IT companies at 0% or return to the 3% rate, but not increase it anymore.