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.

Elden Ring continues to collect achievements. According to YouTube Gaming statistics, the game has collected 3.4 billion views on YouTube in the first 60 days since its release.

Another gaming company has published a financial report. Next up is Nintendo, which earned $2.3 billion in sales for the quarter.

Unity decided to gain a foothold in the Chinese market. According to Reuters sources, she is going to turn the Unity China division into a separate company and sell a stake in it to investors from China.

Although game services generate more revenue, single projects are also very important for EA. This was stated by Andrew Wilson, CEO of the company, during the presentation of the financial report.

Electronic Arts (EA) has prepared a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 (ended June 30). We share key data from it.

Digital sales of games are growing in Germany. The Association of the Gaming Industry of the country found out that last year almost 6 out of 10 games for consoles and PCs were purchased in digital format.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants to change the requirements according to which IT companies are included in the list of accredited. In particular, officials suggested adding organizations to it that receive at least 30% of revenue from IT.

Slovak Pixel Federation will help restore forests in Africa. She announced that the games Diggy’s Adventure, TrainStation 2 and Port City hosted events dedicated to gardening. According to their results, gamers “planted” 86,486 trees.

The success of the cloud gaming service was shared by Catherine Gluckstein, head of product at Microsoft. However, she did not say exactly how many people are now using Xbox Cloud Gaming for an hour.

Paradox Interactive has also published a financial report. In it, she told about the income for the first half of 2022. We have chosen the main figures.

Indonesian gamers can use Steam again. According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, Valve has officially registered with Kominfo, the local Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.