The Center for Strategic Research (CSR) has prepared a report in which he told how it is possible to limit the Russian IT sector from foreign influence. Among other things, he suggested that IT companies coordinate with the authorities all “significant corporate actions” of foreigners.

French publisher Homa spoke about the downloads of a mobile arcade about dinosaur battles on LinkedIn.

According to Bloomberg, on December 7, Microsoft executives are going to meet with representatives of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They will try once again to convince the regulator not to block the purchase of Activision Blizzard.

Phil Spencer announced that Microsoft has agreed to release Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles after completing the purchase of Activision Blizzard. He also confirmed that the games in the series will continue to be released on Steam at the same time as the release on Xbox.

The Commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on Information Policy has prepared another proposal related to video games. Now she wants games for children to be researched in Russia on a permanent basis.

At the beginning of 2023, Terra Nil, an inversion construction simulator about ecology, will be released on Steam. We publish an interview with the producer of the project Ruan Rothmann (Ruan Rothmann).

The proposal was made in the commission of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation on information policy. Officials hope the registry will help limit the spread of “harmful to children” video games in the country.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has acquired a controlling stake in Pixelynx. She did not disclose the amount and terms of the transaction.

On December 6, Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo and at least 18 other Chinese companies shut down regional online game servers for a day. According to the GameLook portal, they did it as a sign of mourning for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

The PUBG developer received an award as part of the Export Tower Award, an award held under the supervision of the Ministry of Commerce of South Korea. It is awarded to companies that contribute most to the development of exports.

The mobile AR game in the Witcher universe will be removed from the App Store and Google Play on January 31, 2023, and its servers will be turned off on June 30, 2023.

For several years before the COVID-19 pandemic, esports was one of the most funded segments of the gaming industry. However, now the situation has changed.

Analytical firms GSD and GfK reported gaming sales in the UK in November. According to their estimates, 4.3 million physical and digital copies of games were sold in the country in just a month.

PUBG Mobile‘s revenue has crossed another billion-dollar milestone, the VentureBeat portal reports with reference to Sensor Tower data. This is despite the fact that recently the game has started to earn less than before.

This was stated by Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, in a column for The Wall Street Journal. He also confirmed that the corporation offered Sony to sign a contract for a period of 10 years for the release of Call of Duty on the PlayStation.

300 testers from the ZeniMax Media concern followed in the footsteps of Activision Blizzard employees and a number of other gaming companies. They started voting for the creation of their own trade union. If everything goes well, the ZeniMax Media union will become the first in Microsoft and the largest in the gaming industry.

The company confirmed in a comment to IGN that from the beginning of next year it plans to raise the cost of its main titles for the Xbox Series X/S.

With the support of AppMagic, the editors of App2Top have prepared a report on the most popular and highest-grossing mobile games in November (among them: Shotgun Sounds, Car Crash Compilation Game and, of course, Goddess of Victory: Nikke).

Polish CD PROJEKT has presented a roadmap for its GWENT collectible card game. She announced that next year she will add 72 new maps to the title, after which she will stop releasing fresh content and balancing patches.