The main thing for the weekend (November 26-27)

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation offered to launch a support program for Russian game developers, Steam set a new record for peak online, it became known that Sony was going to add PlayStation Plus to Xbox, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Maksut Shadaev said at the Digital Diamond forum that Russian game development is one of the most seriously affected industries in 2022. The head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation noted that the state should not only create technologies, but also “make sure that the in-demand content is available.” As part of this, he proposed to launch a program to support domestic developers.

Steam has updated the record for the number of simultaneous users. And twice over the weekend. For the first time it happened on Saturday, November 26 — then the peak online platform exceeded 31.3 million people. The next day, Steam managed to attract 31.9 million people at the same time.

A new stage of confrontation between Tencent and Moonton, a subsidiary of ByteDance studio, has started in China. On the website of the Shanghai court, information appeared that on November 29, the next trial on the case of plagiarism of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang should take place. Recall that Tencent claims that the game copies its Honor of Kings and League of Legends from Riot Games.

In a report for the British antitrust regulator, Sony mentioned that it wanted to launch a PlayStation Plus subscription to Xbox, but Microsoft did not allow it. Earlier it was reported that Microsoft itself intended to add Game Pass to the PlayStation.