We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a game engine developer at MYTONA, a game designer at JustMoby and a marketing intern at WN Media Group.

There is a decline in the mobile blockchain games market. Analysts from Sensor Tower calculated that by the end of 2022, the revenue of such titles with IAP in Google Play and the App Store fell by 13.9% year-on—year – this is the first drop in five years.

VK reported that as of the end of 2022, 12 million people had registered on the VK Play gaming platform. At the beginning of November, there were only 7 million of them.

Last week, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 people. Later it became known that studio 343 Industries “suffered greatly” from the cuts, but the exact number of dismissed developers was not called.

The administration of GOG in the official blog published statistics on the results of last year. We have selected a few facts from it.

Deputy Dmitry Kuznetsov, the author of the bill on compulsory licensing of foreign software, has prepared an updated version of the document. He suggested using different licensing mechanisms depending on whether the company receives a license for the selected software for the first time or not.

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.