All 30 employees have been laid off at mobile developer Pictolabra. The studio’s management seems to lay the responsibility on MGVC, an investment division of MY.GAMES, which has pulled the funding Pictolabra relied on. The fund, however, controlled less than 1% of the company and claims it had no say in the matter, while the studio knew about the termination of funding well in advance.

To kick off the Christmas week, Lexi Sydow, Head of Insights at App Annie, joins us for another episode of our “2021 in Video Games” series.

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal agency responsible for censorship in media, has offered to develop an AI-based solution to search for banned content in video games. However, this initiative caused debate among industry professionals.