Apple and Google are actively cleaning up their app stores. The Pixalate platform drew attention to the fact that in the second quarter of 2022, companies removed 592 thousand projects from the stores, of which 101 thousand were games.

A reality show about mobile game developers is starting on YouTube. The idea of the project is to show by a live example how to use advertising to scale the performance of mobile games. The author of the show, which is called “Reality for the purchase of traffic“, is game dev blogger Evgeny Grishakov.

Sega Sammy also summed up the financial results of the last quarter. According to the report, the entire Japanese company earned $494 million during this period, which is 11% more than in 2021.

VK Play and ResearchMe conducted a study on esports. They interviewed 1,500 Russians over the age of 18 and found out that only 57% of respondents know about esports (and another 28% have heard of such a term).

Chinese giant Tencent wants to become the largest shareholder of Ubisoft. According to Reuters, citing its own sources, the company plans to buy part of the stake from the Guillemot family, which now owns 15% of the shares.

Two more gaming companies decided to plant trees. Next up are Xsolla and CD PROJEKT RED, who invested in the GamesForest.Club project.

According to Sensor Tower analysts, in January-June 2022, American gamers spent $11.4 billion in mobile games, which is 9.6% less than at the same time a year ago. As a result, the revenue of almost all genres decreased.

Japanese Konami has released a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2023. The company reported that its revenue increased to $536 million, while operating profit fell to $104 million.

In mid-July, Bungie filed a lawsuit against streamer Luca Leone, who threatened studio employees. The Canadian court probably helped to find out his identity, which a month before demanded that the TextNow provider disclose the data of an anonymous attacker/intruders.

Testers from Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions) told Kotaku that Activision Blizzard opposed their unionization. They said that the publisher recently rehired the Reed Smith law firm, which is just helping to fight unions.

According to Bloomberg, the game was created in partnership with NetEase. The reason for the closure of the project was the financial disagreements of corporations.

Newzoo and Crypto.com We asked 4.5 thousand gamers from the USA, Great Britain and Indonesia what they think about blockchain games. It turned out that many in general do not mind playing like this, but for various reasons refuse.

Another domestic app store may appear in Russia. According to TASS, citing sources, MTS has started working on its marketplace — AppBazar.

Briefly about the main controversial legal situations in the gaming industry, he told for App2Top.ru Kamal Terekhov, Head of the Arbitration & IT Disputes Division of the REVERA Group.

The developer of Playstudios social casinos will pay more attention to blockchain games. The company announced that it is launching a corresponding division. It was opened on the basis of the WonderBlocks blockchain platform and was named playBLOCKS.

In May, the media reported that Electronic Arts (EA) was considering selling the company or merging. During the presentation of the financial report, CEO Andrew Wilson commented on these rumors.

Keywords Studios Group of companies has announced the purchase of the Australian Mighty Games. Under the terms of the deal, she immediately paid $4.1 million in cash and shares, and pledged to transfer the remaining $2.8 million later if the studio reaches the necessary financial indicators.

The mobile hit Clash of Clans celebrates its tenth anniversary. Supercell did not disclose new data on sales of the game in honor of this, but in an interview with the VentureBeat portal mentioned that the total downloads of all projects under the Clash brand exceeded 3 billion.

Yesterday, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) issued a new order against Apple. The agency stated that the corporation is obliged to stop violating the competition law within 60 days. To do this, she will have to change the rules of her app store.