Over the Christmas week, the British retail chart has hardly changed, according to GamesIndustry.biz with a link to the GfK data. In particular, the best-selling game again became FIFA 23, whose physical sales increased by 16% compared to the previous week.

The National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) has allowed Valorant, Pokémon UNITE and 42 other foreign games to be released in the country.

The Government of India has announced that esports tournaments will now be able to take place as part of national sporting events. The Department of Sports under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of India will be responsible for the development of esports in the country.

The former head of Sonic Team will appear in court. According to the Japanese publication NHK, the Tokyo prosecutor’s office has officially accused Yuji Naka of insider trading in shares of the developers of the Final Fantasy VII mobile game: The First Soldier.

Sources of The Telegraph report that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia has acquired more than 50% of the shares of the creator of the Magic Leap AR headsets.

The “overwhelming majority” of employees of the developer studio of the battle royale Spellbreak advocated the creation of their own trade union. They announced that they would organize it in partnership with the United States Communications Workers Union (CWA).

We summed up the results of the year together with Nikita Guk, CEO and co-founder of Hoopsly. He spoke about the growth of the company’s installations, changes in the hyper-casual games market and the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult for small developers to anticipate trends.

The US Copyright Office (USCO) has changed its mind about including the Zarya of the Dawn comic strip in the copyright register, which artist Kristina Kashtanova created using the Midjourney neural network. The Agency has launched a procedure to cancel the registration decision.

On December 25, the Death Stranding distribution started in the Epic Games Store. At first, the site offered to pick up the director’s version of the game for free, but soon replaced it with the basic one. According to Epic Games, such confusion occurred through the fault of an intern.

We continue the series of interviews in which we summarize the results of the year together with experts and top managers of the gaming industry (and related ones). This time we talked with Vladimir Obruchev, the head of the game direction at the Bombora publishing house.

Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm has prepared a global report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

The Esports Charts portal reported that League of Legends broadcasts scored over 615 million hours of views in 2022. This is more than for any other esports game.

Tim Sweeney commented on Twitter on the scandal surrounding the publication on ArtStation of images created by neural networks. He stated that the ban on such works goes against the values of Epic Games, the parent company of the site.

Another achievement has been submitted to the Chinese hit Genshin Impact. According to Sensor Tower analysts, the revenue of the mobile version of the game has already exceeded $ 4 billion.

Summed up the results of the year together with Tanya Moroz, VP for Customer Success in Appodeal. She spoke about trends in the mobile advertising market, plans for the next year and the company’s successes.

It took almost eight years for an indie bagel about dark, dark dungeons and heroes with neuroses to achieve this indicator.

We summed up the results of the year together with Dmitry Bobrov, CEO of ZiMAD Studio. He spoke about the company’s releases, a noticeable drop in revenue per user and the tightening of platform policies.

SteamDB has compiled a list of the highest-rated games released on Steam in 2022. The leader of this year was Vampire Survivors, which received 97.5% positive reviews.

The book “Programming in Unreal Engine 5 for a beginner igrodel appeared on sale. Fundamentals of the Blueprint Visual Language”. This is the work of two Russian authors: Olga Maksimenkova, Candidate of Technical Sciences and researcher at the HSE, and Nikita Veselko, Product Owner at the IThub games studio.