At the same time, his annual income decreased by a third.

Gaming companies around the world continue to reduce staff. This time, the Canadian mobile publisher and developer Kabam announced the layoffs.

VK Group reported for the third quarter (ended September 30). In the document, she said that after the sale of MY.GAMES, she stopped allocating the “Games” business segment, but continued to deal with the games themselves – now under the VK Play brand.

This was announced by Maksut Shadaev, head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

The government of the Russian Federation announced that starting from 2023, the RuStore app store will be mandatory pre-installed on devices sold in Russia. It got into the list of required programs instead of the APP List.

The District Court of California stated that the companies had previously sued in China, and he sees no reason why proceedings should now take place in the United States. In addition, Moonton is a Shanghai studio, and Riot Games belongs to the Chinese giant Tencent.

Gismart is based in Poland. According to Operations director Eugene Nagel, the opening of the Warsaw office was a matter of time — there are about 70 employees of Gismart in the country, a quarter of the staff of the publishing house.

A representative of Ubisoft in a comment for RBC called the news about the complete departure of the French company from Russia “rumors”.

Another company has published a financial report. Let’s see how July-September 2022 went for Roblox.

Before that, the developers had been cooperating with Garena for 12 years.

Mark Zuckerberg announced that he is going to cut 13% of the Meta* staff and extend the moratorium on hiring new employees until the end of the first quarter of 2023. He called this decision difficult and took full responsibility for the current situation.

The Swedish company shared its plans as part of the financial report for the third quarter. As G5 Entertainment explained, there are many games in its portfolio, but only a few have become hits. At the same time, the development of projects that ultimately turn out to be insufficiently successful takes a disproportionate amount of time and money.

This game took less than a week. The free giveaway of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 in celebration of the series’ seventh anniversary was held on Steam from November 3 to 7.

Last week, the media reported that the authorities of Saudi Arabia and Finland agreed to develop trade and business relations between the countries. The deal concerns a variety of industries, including healthcare, mining and energy, but it is believed that it also applies to games.

Previously, the title was held by Pokémon Red/Green/Blue, which has sold 10.23 million copies in Japan since 1996. The Game Data Library project writes about this.

Yesterday it became known that Electronic Arts (EA) decided to abandon the Project CARS series of racing games. The publisher’s action disappointed Ian Bell, founder and former CEO of Slightly Mad Studios.

But only from those games that have achievements on other PC platforms.

The regulator fears that the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion will damage competition in the gaming market.

Huawei revealed the performance of the mobile app store during the conference for developers HDC Europe 2022.