Elden Ring has firmly established itself at the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Over the past four weeks, no project has been able to shift the FromSoftware game from the first place. However, Steam Deck is breathing down her back, which once again got to the second line of the rating.

It has become much more difficult to start a company abroad. According to the new presidential decree, residents of the Russian Federation are now prohibited from paying shares, shares and deposits to foreign legal entities. We talked to legal experts about the new law.

Studios rarely share their assets with other developers. The exception was the Yacht Club Games team, which posted an archive with art content on the Shovel Knight game to the public.

Today, on March 18, developers and authors of content for the Steam workshop began to receive notifications from Valve stating that “due to current events, it is impossible to send bank payments to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”

US Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleague Mondar Jones have introduced a bill to ban anti-competitive mergers. If it is accepted, companies will not be able to make transactions more expensive than $5 billion.

The games of the publisher AppQuantum have been downloaded more than 100 million times. It took the company 4 years to achieve this indicator (it was founded at the end of 2017). However, the company collected the last 8 million downloads in just a month.

During 2022, Google plans to introduce several key changes to the Stadia gaming cloud service. We noted the main points of the report on Stadia, announced as part of the Google Games Summit.

Unity has published a large-scale 40-page report for 2021. It is dedicated to how things are with games developed on Unity. There is also about the dynamics of hyper-casual titles, and about the difference in retention in different genres, and much more. We tell you about the most interesting of it.

Announced Talents In Games, an educational conference for game developers. It will be free and will be held in an online format. Among the main topics is relocation.

We have prepared a fresh selection of vacancies in the gaming industry. This week they are wanted: a project manager at ZiMAD, a game designer at Playrix and a product analyst at Beresnev Games.Project Manager at ZiMAD (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Minsk, Gomel, as well as remotely)

In January last year, Cookie Run: Kingdom, a battler from Devsisters based on the popular IP in South Korea, was released. GameLook talked about the financial achievements of the project.

Steam is the most popular gaming platform of the last two years. This conclusion was reached by the PR manager of TweakTown, who compared the MAU of four large console and desktop platforms.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF, aka Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) continues to invest in video games. He invested $235 million in Korean NCSOFT, thereby becoming its second largest shareholder.

Last week, Steam Deck returned to the Steam bestseller chart and very successfully — it immediately got to the second line of the rating. The first place has been taken by one of the editions of Elden Ring for the third week in a row.

A series of restrictions from Google continues. Russian companies and private users can no longer create new accounts in AdSense, AdMob, Google Advertising Manager and Google Cloud.

The revenues of the American gaming market continue to decline. NPD Group analysts report that in February Americans spent 6% less on video games, hardware and accessories than a year ago. As for individual games, the sales leaders were Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West.

The Versus.Legal law firm has collected up-to-date information as of March 11 about the current restrictions that IT companies operating in Russia may face.

Apptica analytical service has prepared a report on the applications that appeared in the App Store this winter. At the same time, experts shared the forecast for spring. We tell them what they found out.

From today, Russian users can download only free games and applications in the App Store and Google Play. Both stores have stopped accepting payments by cards of domestic banks.