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.

Everyone from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia can play mobile titles on Windows computers. Now they have over 50 games available, including Summoners War, Cookie Run: Kingdom and Last Fortress: Underground.

Yesterday, the authors of the adventure game A Space for the Unbound said that the British publisher PQube withheld money from the grant allocated to them. However, PQube denied the claims. He told the media that he “fulfilled all obligations” to the companies Toge Productions and Mojiken.

Mention of it was found in the database of the Canadian trademark registration authority.

Kommersant writes about this with reference to a source from the industry. As the interlocutor of the publication points out, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation at the end of last year started talking about new support measures, but has not yet implemented the initiative.

The ministry stated that they had no authority to dispose of the funds of the Rosinfokominvest fund, and Rostec wanted to receive them. In addition, the state corporation did not provide clear justifications for the project.

During a conversation with Bloomberg, the head of Xbox also touched on the topic of games. In his opinion, in the future, exclusives will be replaced by titles with crossplay support, although not everyone likes them now.

The head of Xbox told about this in an interview with Bloomberg. Spencer stressed that he had never made a deal worth almost $70 billion before and did not know how antitrust regulators behave in such cases. But it seems to him that so far everything is going well.

Note that over the past week, the chart as a whole has hardly changed. Unless GTA V returned to it, while Two Point Campus dropped out of the top ten bestsellers, falling to 14th place.

We are publishing a new list with gaming vacancies. This week they are wanted: Marketing director at Beresnev Games, advertising creative manager at SIDUS HEROES and a leading UX/UI artist at DOCET TI.

Rogue Games is an American publisher known for The Last Case of Benedict Fox and Cookie Cutter. He is confident that thanks to the new schedule, employees will increase productivity.

Indonesian studio Mojiken and publisher Toge Productions have terminated their contract with PQube. They stated that the publisher secretly received a grant allocated to them and did not honestly transfer the money.

Owners of VR headsets from Meta* will soon be able to no longer use social media accounts to log in. Yesterday, the company officially announced that special Meta accounts will be available to users in the near future.

Almost the entire amount went to the games. According to Sensor Tower calculations, they accounted for 94% of user spending in such applications for the first half of 2022.