Funny. Microsoft itself now doesn’t really believe in the dominant role of subscriptions in the future. This conclusion can be reached based on another statement by Phil Spencer (he really said a lot yesterday).

An amazing generation of consoles. Prices for devices and services do not fall over time, but rather grow. In August, Sony announced a price tag increase for the PlayStation 5, now Microsoft does not exclude its products either.

Microsoft continues to convince both international regulators and the gaming community that the purchase of Activision Blizzard will not radically change the situation on the market. The latest statement by Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, is just about this.

Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, who have headed Rocksteady Studios since its founding in 2004, have announced that they are leaving the company.

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.