The initiator of the lawsuit is human rights activist Alex Neill. She claims that the company abused its position in the market, imposed a 30% commission on developers and inflated prices in the PS Store. As a result, over the past six years Sony has “robbed” 9 million gamers.

Two years ago, the South Korean authorities decided to pay more attention to advertising games. In September 2019, they launched a special committee, which recently published a list with standards. There are 14 items in the list in total.

The Chinese government has softened a little towards local technology companies. Officials said they do not object to Western investments if they are made in accordance with the laws.

Wargaming continues to transfer the business of operating games in Russia and Belarus to St. Petersburg Lesta Games. The company announced that a separate World of Tanks client called “World of Tanks” will be launched in these countries in September.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for the 33rd week of the year.

Back in March, Russian officials proposed forcibly licensing intellectual property from “unfriendly countries.” On August 19, the relevant bill officially reached the State Duma.

This is the conclusion that InvestGame came to. The company studied the situation with investments, public offerings and M&A agreements for January-June 2022.

Just last month, American gamers spent $4.18 billion on video games, hardware and accessories, according to NPD Group analysts.

The developers from FuturLab have announced that they have prepared a research version of the PowerWash Simulator. With its help, Oxford University staff will be able to analyze the behavior of gamers and ask them questions about how they feel.

This is 96.5% of the revenue of the entire Starbreeze company. Compared to last year, sales of the series fell, but only slightly — by 9%.

The creators of the NashStore did not tell how many people are currently using the Russian mobile marketplace.

The South Korean company announced that it will support local indie developers who want to enter the global market. Kakao Games will invest in them through a fund created by Kona Venture Partners.

Perforce Software interviewed 300 developers from different countries. It turned out that almost half of them doubt that NFT will be able to change the gaming industry by 2025. At the same time, 56% of respondents believe in the potential of the metaverse.

Data attribution service Tenjin estimated that Android games accounted for 54% of advertising revenue in April-June 2022. For comparison, two years ago they accounted for only 40%.

According to Axios, the US federal court issued decisions on August 10 and 16. For the first time, he refused to consider a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard in summary proceedings. And for the second time, he did not agree that the plaintiffs from DFEH violated ethics by hiring lawyers who previously worked at the EEOC.

A month ago, an outsourcer with Ukrainian roots, Room 8 Group, announced the launch of a mobile game development division. Now the company has officially introduced the first studio in its composition — Solid Bash.

This was told by journalist Gary Whitta (Gary Whitta) as part of the podcast Kinda Funny Games. He did not go into details of the agreement and did not disclose his source.

The developers of the game about the possessed sheep boasted of success on Twitter. There they thanked the gamers and informed them that they were engaged in patches and content updates.