Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Square Enix Montréal studios have officially become part of the Swedish holding. Embracer Group has also taken over the rights to a number of major franchises, including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain.

CNBC journalists, citing their own sources, report that the deal between the companies will not take place after all. Officially, neither Amazon nor Electronic Arts (EA) have yet commented on the news.

Another big gaming deal is coming up. The media write that today Amazon will announce the purchase of Electronic Arts (EA).

The streaming service has been launched within the VK Play platform. As VK promises, streamers on VK Play Live can count on 90% of revenue from subscriptions. In addition, they have no restrictions on the number of subscription levels.

tinyBuild has announced that the developers of Despotism 3k and Despot’s Game will join its Belgrade studio.

This is one and a half times more than the global version of the game brought to the developers at the time.

Shanghai officials decided to support companies promoting the country’s culture. In addition to miHoYo, Lilith Games, FunPlus Interactive, Coconut Island Games and Yoozoo Games also received funds.

Last week, a new agency, the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA), officially launched in Singapore. Among other things, games with loot boxes came under his supervision.

This was stated by Harrison Hoffman, chief product manager at Xbox. He said that although the corporation pays a lot of attention to streaming cloud games to smartphones, it is much more interested in the possibility of broadcasting games to televisions.

David Haddad spoke about the situation at WB Games in an interview with Axios. According to him, the media company is happy with its gaming division and considers it an important part of Warner Bros. Discovery.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) held a meeting with Microsoft representatives on the purchase of Activision Blizzard. On it, the regulator expressed concern about the deal.

Arnaud Muller, Chief Operating Officer of Bandai Namco Europe, expressed his opinion about the boom of M&A deals in the gaming industry. He believes that consolidation has made it more difficult to work with studios and it is especially difficult for small publishers.

The main investor was WePlay Ventures. Together with him, DoMiNO Ventures, Anibera, AngelEffect and Aegean Ventures invested in the Turkish studio.

The ISFE and EGDF organizations have prepared a detailed report on the European gaming market for 2021. We have selected a few facts from it.

The French publisher will publish soundtracks from the games published by him. He has already announced his first two albums, which will include music from Syberia 2 and Syberia 3.

Sony has announced an increase in prices for the PS5 in most regions. The company did not delve into the reasons and explained everything by the “global economic situation”.

Last November, the head of Xbox shared concerns about P2E games. Yesterday, in an interview with Bloomberg, he repeated that he still considers some projects with blockchain and NFT exploitative.

This figure was named by Elliptic. She analyzed data for the 12 months ended July 31, 2022.

Rostec State Corporation issued a statement in which it stressed that the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation did not refuse to finance the engine, but offered to “work out the issue of allocating a grant” with RFRIT.