Apple is going to seriously review the policy of its platform. According to Bloomberg, citing sources, next year the company will allow residents of EU countries to install alternative storages on iPhones and iPads.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science and a number of other departments to develop new measures to support the domestic video game and esports industries.

Safe Betting Sites has published the top 10 countries whose residents will spend the most on video games in 2022. When compiling the list, the portal relied on data from the analytical company Statista.

Another company has joined the game outsourcer Keywords Studios. He was joined by LabCom, an agency that helps with the promotion in Italy of Ubisoft, Bethesda, Wargaming, Rockstar Games and many other gaming companies.

The creators of League of Legends have announced that they are ready to give $6 million to charities. How much money specific companies will receive depends on the users of Riot Games.

The Metacritic portal began to summarize the results of 2022 for games. He compiled a list with the worst games released this year.

Digerati has accused Conradical Games of cheating and violating the terms of the contract. She demanded that the studio continue to fulfill its obligations.

You can no longer buy loot boxes in Brawl Stars. On December 12, Supercell released an update for the game that stopped the sale of sets with random loot.

Israeli Playtika conducts another round of layoffs. She announced that she was preparing to cut 15% of the staff, or about 615 employees. The company’s management noted that this is not an easy decision, but it is necessary to improve the efficiency of Playtika.

The creators of Dwarf Fortress, in an interview with PC Gamer, said that the Steam version of their game has already been bought 300 thousand times. According to the calculations of journalists, this means that Dwarf Fortress generated $9 million without taking into account Valve‘s 30% share, or about $6.3 million, if you still take into account the commission.

SEGA announced the success of the new Sonic adventure on the company’s official Twitter account. The figure of 2.5 million takes into account both digital and physical sales of the title.

Microsoft continues to try to appease antitrust regulators. Bloomberg sources report that the corporation has offered Sony the right to distribute Call of Duty series games as part of a PS Plus subscription.

In October, devtodev launched a new platform with courses for developers — Edvice. Three months later, the company announced that its entire educational direction had finally moved to this platform.

Chinese zombie puzzle Puzzles & Survival is rapidly increasing revenue. Naavik data-based analytics company data.ai she estimated that in September 2022, the game earned about $ 29.9 million, and its total revenue reached $ 595 million.

Last week, physical sales of God of War: Ragnarök in the country jumped by 32%. We should thank the increased supply of PS5 consoles for such growth, GamesIndustry reports.biz with a link to the GfK data.

The new record was announced by Katsuhiro Harada, chief producer of Tekken. He also said that the total circulation of the series has reached the mark of 54 million copies.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 49th week of the year.

The European Commission disagreed with the arguments of the FTC in an antitrust lawsuit against the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, Canadian parents sued Epic Games because of Fortnite, one of the creators of Disco Elysium said he would continue to fight injustice in the studio, despite the return of €4.8 million, – we tell you what happened in the game industry for this weekend.

Another trial between gaming companies is planned. Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese giant NetEase in four countries at once: the UK, Germany, Brazil and Singapore.