Exactly one month has passed since the release of the Marvel Snap collectible card game, developed by the creators of Hearthstone. It turned out to be quite successful for the project.

China’s NetEase reported for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. We look at the company’s indicators.

The German government has announced that it will allocate €70 million in grants to German developers next year. Previously, it had invested €20 million less for the development of game development in the country.

The owners of the NashStore reported on the indicators of the Russian mobile marketplace in the official Telegram channel of the platform.

On November 17, the National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) issued licenses for publishing 70 online games in the country. Among them was Metal Slug: Awakening — Tencent is responsible for its release.

Epic Games has updated the lawsuit against Google, adding more details about Project Hug, a program designed to keep major developers on Google Play and prevent competition. According to the authors of Fortnite, Google has concluded at least 24 deals, including with Activision Blizzard.

A veteran of the Japanese gaming industry, Yuji Naka, was among the suspects in insider trading in shares of the developer studio Dragon Quest Tact. This is reported by FNN Prime Online.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. Wanted this week: CG Generalist at AIRICORE, Lead UA Manager at Dankolab and Senior 2D concept environment Artist at ExoGenesis.

Rollic Games, part of Zynga (which itself is part of Take-Two), was joined by the German developer and publisher Popcore Games. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

A young Cypriot game development studio Eschatology Entertainment raised $4 million during the seed round to develop an AAA first-person shooter.

According to the Automaton portal, two former Square Enix employees were suspected of trying to make money on Dragon Quest Tact. Allegedly, shortly before the announcement of the game, they intentionally bought cheap shares of the Aiming studio in the amount of $ 336.3 thousand, in order to then sell them more expensive.

This was announced by the CEO of the Swedish holding company Lars Wingefors (Lars Wingefors) in the framework of the financial report.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has published a list of donors who donated money to the organization to support refugees from the territory of Ukraine. In the top of the main benefactors is the developer of Unreal Engine and Fortnite.

For Chinese gaming companies, a “black streak” may end. On November 16, the state newspaper The People’s Daily published an article calling for a closer look at the positive aspects of video games.

The head of the NetEase partnership department, Simon Zhu, wrote on LinkedIn that he spent ten thousand hours in Warcraft, Starcraft and Overwatch and is now “heartbroken” because of the closure of games in China. He also spoke sharply about the people who made the decision:

Blizzard Entertainment‘s agreement with NetEase to publish almost all of the company’s games in China expires next year. Blizzard has already started looking for a new partner, but warned that from January 23, the games will temporarily stop working in the country.

Evgenia Zibareva, Business Development Director of VKontakte, shared the platform’s plans in an interview with Vedomosti.

The Swedish company told about this in a report for April-September 2022.

Bad news. By the end of 2022, the global video game market will sink by 4.3%. This is reported by the analytical company Newzoo. She also notes that she is recording a reduction in the sector for the first time in the history of her monitoring.