Officially based in Cyprus, Panoramik mobile game development and publishing studio announced the suspension of work with all personnel in Russia. The company is not going to relocate people, but is ready to continue working with those who have left the country on their own.

The sale must be carried out through the IAP toolkit. Simply put, Apple will charge 30% from each transaction.

The information is still, however, unofficial. Sony has not made any announcements. Data on the launch of a new division was found by the GamingBolt publication in the description of one of the latest PlayStation Global vacancies.

This is a record earnings of the company’s gaming business during this calendar period.

According to Vedomosti and Kommersant, four departments at once – the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Health, Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Finance – are working on a bill that will oblige video game developers to label content by age categories, and at the same time prohibit the distribution of games in Russia with information that violates the law.

The revenue of the Chinese video game market as a result of the third quarter of 2022 fell by 19.1% relative to the same period a year earlier. Also, revenue fell by 12.6% relative to the second quarter of this year.

The Korean gaming company GXC with a not very clear anamnesis (the website states that the company is directly looking for unrealized needs of the gaming sector in order to transform them into business ideas) launched the $40 million Round Ventures fund. The money will be used to support young gaming teams and startups.

The first mobile game to earn a billion dollars was Puzzle & Dragons in 2014. It was released in 2012. Despite its advanced age and seemingly forgotten successes, the project still earns astronomical sums.

The impetus for its launch was the success of Genshin Impact.

Valve has introduced a new tool for working with price tags on Steam. As part of this announcement, she also introduced new recommended price tags. For a number of countries, they turned out to be much higher than the previous ones.

The conference will be held in Tel Aviv. The first speakers are already known.

Jay Wilson, who led the work on Diablo 3 for more than 10 years, shared a similar metaphor during the question-and-answer session at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo.

The publication makes similar conclusions based on the dynamics of sales of gaming monitors and gaming laptops in the country.

The miracles of forecasting and expertise are demonstrated by analysts of the agency TelecomDaily. They believe that the volume of sales of mobile games in Russia by the end of 2022 will grow by 25% — from $960 million last year to $1.2 billion this year.

The publisher of mobile games AppQuantum has announced its complete withdrawal from Russia. In this regard, he expanded the relocation program for those employees who have not yet left the country.

The public Polish gaming company CI Games, primarily known for the Sniper Ghost Warrior series of shooters, is changing its strategy.

On dev.by published an interview with Lesta about how the separation from Wargaming affected the Belarusian development team. We share the main theses.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 42nd week of the year.

ZA/UM is being sued by the chief designer of Disco Elysium, Apple will allow advertising games on the main App Store, Electronic Arts was criticized for the insufficient number of black presenters in the show, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.