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.

This is twice as much as a year ago.

According to GSD, its initial sales were 6% higher than the previous part of the football simulator.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) stated that Google is abusing its dominant position in several markets at once: mobile operating systems, search engines, video hosting, browsers and mobile marketplaces.

The authorities of the Kostroma region have announced tax relief for local IT companies. The main condition for the benefit is that the organization must receive at least 70% of revenue from IT.

The total revenue of the Stumble Guys mobile version with IAP has already reached $62.9 million.

The investment boom does not plan to end. Publisher AppQuantum has launched a business program for game developers. Participants can expect to receive investments of up to a million dollars.

This is 11% less than in August, the report says PocketGamer.biz and Stream Hatchet.

By September, the volume of announced and closed M&A deals, investments and public offerings in the industry reached $123 billion, according to Drake Star.

This was announced by Focus Entertainment in its report for the first financial half of the year (April-September 2022).

On October 20, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that now anyone can write to the agency and tell them what they think about the deal between the companies.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: a leading UA manager at Dankolab, a leading UX artist at Agranovsky IT and a game designer at JustMoby.

The company did not explain how often this will happen. But Valve has said it wants to keep up with changes in the global economy.

With its help, it is possible to increase the cyber literacy of young people, says Vladimir Bengin, Director of the Cybersecurity Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

This statement was made by Ian Maclure, special effects artist at Bossa Studios. He explained that many studios have already managed to work with new-generation consoles and were dissatisfied with the first experience precisely because the Xbox Series S “hung like a stone around its neck.”

It became known about a new player in the data analysis market — the Mad Curve company. It is founded by people from MY.GAMES and 101XP. The startup managed to launch the service of the same name in a test mode and attract $ 1.15 million from The Games Fund.

Sergey Ryabtsev and Alina Zlotnik, producers of AppQuantum, told about the nuances of the softlonch of mobile games and common mistakes, using the example of Love & Flowers.