YouTube removed The Day Before gameplay videos due to trademark infringement, Bungie and CCP Games announced donations to victims of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The year 2022 was rich in legal initiatives against loot boxes. The Versus.legal law firm has prepared a detailed overview of them, broken down by country.

A possible break in the deal with Microsoft will not lead to the resignation of Bobby Kotick, sources tell Fox Business. According to them, if antitrust regulators still do not approve the sale of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, the Cat will continue to lead the company.

The GitHub platform has suspended the hiring of employees and announced that it will reduce 10% of the staff by the end of fiscal 2023 (March 31, 2022). That’s about 300 people.

MY.GAMES with a link to analytics data data.ai reported that Rush Royale downloads exceeded 50 million.

Sony said that Microsoft requires it to disclose too much information as part of the corporation’s court with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Japanese company must provide more than 120 documents, including the personal data of seven PlayStation executives.

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard continue to send subpoenas to competitors as part of a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This time they subpoenaed Nintendo and Google.

Ubisoft has lost another veteran. Jean Guesdon, who has worked in the company for over 17 years, announced his departure from the company.

This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General of the Internet Development Institute (IRI).

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week, they are wanted: a game producer at Craft Games, a chief monetization manager at Dankolab and the head of sales at Payler gaming.

The Finnish publisher and developer Rovio has published an annual report. The company managed to increase revenue, but its profit and audience of games decreased.

The PUBG developer decided to support the residents of Turkey who suffered from earthquakes. Kim Chang-han, CEO of KRAFTON, expressed his condolences and said that his company will transfer $100,000 to the Turkish humanitarian organization AHBAP.

VK Play platform has announced the launch of an investment division — “VK Play Investments”. She is going to invest 300 million rubles in gaming teams through him in 2023.

There are rumors in Chinese social networks that Blizzard Entertainment has chosen a publisher who will operate its games in China. If you believe them, then in April Zhejiang Century Huatong, a group of companies that publishes Final Fantasy XIV and Dungeons & Dragons Online in China, will become a new partner of the developer.

The revenue of the browser-based G5 Entertainment app store is growing rapidly. As the Swedish company said in a recent financial report, in December last year, for the first time, the G5 Store brought it more money than the Amazon Appstore and six times more than the Mac version of the App Store.

A new game development studio, Electric Saint, has appeared in London. It was founded by Anna Hollinrake, who previously worked at Mediatonic, and Pavle Mihajlovic, a veteran of Flavourworks and 22cans.

By the end of December 2022, over two thousand developers had been registered on the platform. 96% of them are from indie teams, the press service of Yandex Games reports.

The South Korean company KRAFTON shared the success of the project in the framework of the financial report for 2022. She also noted that the average MAU of this version of PUBG has grown 1.6 times over the year.

Nintendo has confirmed that the standard edition of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will cost gamers $70. The new price has already appeared on the pre-order page of the game in the Nintendo eShop.