We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 40th week of the year.

According to the Japanese publisher, hackers could hack into the services of other companies and get sample lists with mailboxes and passwords of players. They use this data to get into the Square Enix system.

The EU antitrust regulator is trying to figure out how Microsoft‘s purchase of Activision Blizzard will affect the market. To do this, the authorities are also interviewing developers, publishers and distributors of games.

The developer and publisher of the Scapes puzzle series will no longer work in Russia and Belarus. This is reported by the Ukrainian portal AIN.UA with reference to the letter of the Buchman brothers to the company’s employees.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: ASO-middle-level manager at Beresnev Games, business development manager at Matryoshka Games and game designer at JustMoby.

The company calls the EA app its “fastest and easiest PC client.” Electronic Arts promises to make the transition to it from Origin as smooth as possible and save all games and a list of friends in the user’s account.

ByteDance is a private company that has not been listed on the stock exchange, so it almost never publicly talks about its finances. However, recently a report for employees got to the journalists of The Wall Street Journal.

On September 29, a year after its release on PC, the zoo management simulator Let’s Build a Zoo appeared on Nintendo, Sony and Xbox consoles. Mike Rose, the founder of the publishing house No More Robots, told about his successes.

It is inconvenient and there are too many bugs in it.

On September 26, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Maxim Parshin sent a letter criticizing the bill to its author, deputy Dmitry Kuznetsov. A copy of the document was reviewed by Kommersant.

Martin Luiga, founder of the ZA/UM Cultural Association and former editor of Disco Elysium, told about this in an interview with GamePressure. He did not disclose what excuse the studio used, but stated that the dismissal was very painful both for the developers themselves and for their loved ones.

Sony recently launched the PlayStation Stars loyalty program in Asia and America. The program has already been criticized by some gamers who accused the company of stinginess.

This is almost twice as much as at the end of last year, according to Newzoo analysts.

Starbreeze promises to help developers with marketing, community management and financing.

The most money-making game was Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, which earned $401 million since its release in April 2018.

The corporation wants to lead a funding round in excess of $100 million, sources tell TechCrunch.

Now the Japanese company owns a controlling stake in Limbic Entertainment. How much she paid for it is unknown.

X-HERO is a superhero battler that became the most downloaded game on iOS in September (according to AppMagic). On September 30, he and his Android version of Epic Heroes disappeared from the App Store and Google Play.