The Administrative Council for the Economic Protection of Brazil (CADE) said it approved the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corporation without any restrictions.

This was announced by Maksut Shadaev during a webinar with representatives of the IT sector. According to him, the list will be expanded on October 6-7. Now there are 195 specialties in it.

Maksut Shadaev, speaking at a meeting in the State Duma, called the domestic game engine a “painful story.” The head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation said that its development can cost a fairly large amount, despite the fact that the engine itself is “poorly monetized”.

The analytical company AppMagic has released a report on hyper-casual games. She studied the main trends and named the ten most popular titles based on the results of the third quarter of 2022.

The Russian government will allocate less money to support IT companies than planned. The order published on October 3 says that it has reduced the amount of subsidies for soft loans for system—forming organizations by six times – from 3 billion to 500 million rubles.

The head of Unity gave a great interview GamesIndustry.biz . Among other things, John Riccitiello said that he thinks about the sharp drop in the value of the company’s shares — they have fallen in price by 84% since the peak last November.

Gaming outsourcer Keywords Studios has decided to increase its presence in the Australian market. The new studios will be owned by its subsidiary Tantalus Melbourne and will be located in Brisbane (Tantalus North) and Adelaide (Tantalus South).

This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadaev during a conversation with journalists.

The European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education proposed to increase support. In particular, officials want the European authorities to invest more in developers — this year they were allocated only €6 million under the Creative Europe program.

This is reported by Dealreporter. According to the portal, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will complete the audit in the next few weeks.

Gruby Entertainment is a young Polish studio founded in 2020 by people from People Can Fly. It is not known how much she received from Tencent and on what terms.

Yesterday, shortly after the presentation of the updated strategy, CD PROJEKT made another announcement. She said that she was starting to buy back shares worth up to 100 million zlotys or $20.7 million.

The French mobile publisher has updated not only the name, but also the logo with a corporate color palette and slogan. The latter began to sound like “game the system” (“replay the system”).

According to the company, Vessel is designed not only for token trading. With its help, mobile developers can also integrate NFT into their games and applications.

Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital have also invested in blockchain developers.

On August 16, 2022, Com2uS released the third mobile game in the Summoners War universe in South Korea. According to Sensor Tower calculations, in two weeks the revenue of Summoners War: Chronicles exceeded $ 3 million, and by September 16 reached $ 5.4 million.

The Israeli company only announced the closure of the Seriously office in Helsinki, but according to MobileGamer.biz , she had previously closed an office in Los Angeles.

The VK gaming platform has been in open beta for a little less than six months. Its beta test started on April 25.

Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, shared the company’s plans in an interview with Reuters. He did not go into details and did not say what specific projects Sony might invest in.