The main thing for the weekend (May 21-22)

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma that abolishes the punishment for parallel imports to Russia, and rumors have surfaced about Electronic Arts’ plans to sell the company — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

The Government of the Russian Federation has proposed to abolish criminal, civil and administrative liability for parallel imports of goods included in the list of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The bill was prepared by the Ministry of Economy, Kommersant reported.

The publication Puck News found out that Electronic Arts wants to sell the company or merge with someone big. According to rumors, she was in talks with Disney, Apple and Amazon. And at the beginning of the year, the NBCUniversal media corporation approached Electronic Arts with a merger proposal — the parties discussed the deal for several weeks, but then still refused it.

▪️Norman Reedus said in an interview with Leo Edit that Kojima Productions has started working on a sequel to Death Stranding. Soon, Hideo Kojima reacted to the unofficial announcement by posting a funny photo on Twitter, in which he swings a bat at the actor (as well as a photo where they hug).

Last week Sony held a presentation on the development strategy. Among other things, the company noted that from April 2021 to March 2022, the PlayStation Network service earned about $14.4 billion. Its audience exceeded 100 million people.

Former PlayStation employee Emma Majo has filed a lawsuit again because of sexism in the company. The court rejected her previous claim a month ago, considering that there was insufficient evidence in it.

Former top managers of Codemasters, Jagex and Pixel Games have founded their own studio. They called it Soul Assembly and said they would make VR games for the metaverse. The first projects of the studio should be released before the end of 2022.