The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has rejected Activision Blizzard‘s request to hold a new vote at Blizzard Albany. The company wanted all 107 studio employees to participate in it, not just 18 testers.

In the first three quarters of 2022, mobile RPGs earned a total of $15.6 billion, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. More than any other mobile genre.

According to GfK analysts, Nintendo Switch accounted for 42% of consoles sold in the UK during the Black Friday sales week.

One of the founders of the French studio, David Cage, in an interview with IGN Japan, said that Quantic Dream is in no hurry to sell the rights to films and TV series on games. He did not say whether such proposals were received.

The head of Meta* criticized Apple‘s policy. In his opinion, the company controls the App Store and iOS too much.

Google, following Apple, summed up the results of the year for its app store. She recognized Apex Legends Mobile as the best game of the outgoing 2022.

This was stated by the co-founder of the platform Reed Hastings (Reed Hastings), speaking at the DealBook Summit event.

Atlus has revealed data on sales of the Japanese RPG Persona 5 Royal. She said that sales only on new platforms *, where the game appeared on October 21, 2022, exceeded one million copies.

Scott Thunelius, a programmer and 3D artist of Subnautica, spoke about the experience of working on retro graphics for the game Warpips, which he did in his spare time together with other employees of Unknown Worlds Entertainment.

HitBox Games is an American studio that was launched last year by James Seaman, former vice president of Artifex Mundi. She received $1.6 million from investors, which she is going to spend on an MMORPG with the Swords of Blood blockchain.

The analytical resource “Check Index” has published a report on the sales of gaming equipment in Russia for the first ten months of 2022. Below are a few facts from it.

Blocking an account on Steam has had a bad effect on the value of SimFabric shares. According to the information Bankier.pl , the shares of the Polish developer fell by 17.5% to 4 zlotys or $0.22 apiece.

Vladimir Potanin‘s holding has become interested in an engine for mobile applications and games. Interros can invest in its development through its Voskhod venture fund.

Games by the Polish studio SimFabric disappeared from Steam. The reason could be dishonest behavior of developers.

The Yumopeu service shared statistics on spending by Russian gamers in January-October 2022.

Employees of the universities of Newcastle and Loughborough studied how loot boxes in games affect minors. The findings of the study were not the most positive.

The launch of Victoria 3 has become one of the most successful in the history of Paradox Interactive. According to the publisher, sales of the strategy reached 500 thousand in a little more than a month.

MY.GAMES cannot agree with some foreign companies on the renewal of licenses for games. Because of this, she decided to abandon the controversial titles and is now looking for buyers for them.

It has become more difficult for residents of Pakistan to make purchases in foreign applications, including games. The country’s authorities have banned paying for purchases with money from a mobile phone account.