Consolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .
RPGs have always been one of the most difficult and risky genres in terms of production. Here is what Owlcat Games founder and CEO Oleg Shpilchevskiy has to say about the challenges posed by rising costs, as well as the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and its impact on the industry.
Balatro has cemented its status as the fastest-selling game in the history of publisher PlayStack. The hit deck-building roguelike has now surpassed 1 million copies sold globally.
The publisher of Playstack and the developer LocalThunk have announced the new success of the indie card hit Balatro. They reported that the game had reached its first mark of one million copies sold in just under a month since its release: its release took place on February 20, 2024.
Epic Games has announced that the Epic Games Store client will stop supporting Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from June 2024. It will also drop support for 32-bit Windows 10.
Where to start working on the combat system, as well as what formulas to use, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the indie studio Vengeance Games and author of the course "Fundamentals of game Design".
According to Bloomberg, Sony has decided not to produce the PS VR2 VR headset until it sells out the accumulated stocks of devices in warehouses.
LinkedIn might be another social media platform to expand into gaming. The Microsoft-owned professional network plans to introduce playable apps to increase user engagement.
The creators of the business social network Linkedin want to increase user engagement through embedded games. The signs that the company is working on games were found in the platform code by enthusiast Nima Owji.
Vedomosti newspaper discovered in the SPARK-Interfax database that in October 2023 Mikhail Akulov, one of the founders and CEO of the Hobby World board game publishing house, registered Novodel LLC. According to the description, the company specializes in the development and publication of video games.
2024 is expected to be another strong year for Steam. Valve’s game platform has been breaking records for the number of concurrent players almost on a daily basis this month.
According to analysts, sales of Helldivers 2 exceeded 8 million copies, Something Wicked Games studio laid off most of its employees, Steam again updated the record for peak online, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.
Supercell is constantly working on new games, but most of them get killed at various stages of development. Clash Mini has now joined the unfortunate list after more than two years of soft launch.
This was stated by Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe in an interview with Bloomberg. He added that he had not negotiated the sale of the Microsoft studio — speculation about the corporation's possible interest in buying Pocketpair appeared shortly after the successful release of Palworld.
Grom Social Enterprises has agreed to purchase Arctic7, a studio consisting of Sperasoft veterans.
Alyona Zhuravleva, who previously held the post of HRD in the studio, shared her experience of adapting novice managers in Glera Games with App2Top.
Valve has published a list of the most played games on Steam Deck over the past 12 months. While it is full of evergreen hits, there are also a few relatively fresh titles that have managed to make it to the top.
Clash Mini is another game that failed to reach the high standards of Supercell. The Finnish company announced that at the end of April it will shut down the Clash Mini servers and remove the title from mobile app stores.
Valve has published a list of games that had the largest daily active audience on the Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024.
A few years ago, Valve employees decided to calculate the commercial efficiency of the company in terms of the ratio of net profit per employee per year and hour. They found out that in 2018, Valve surpassed such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in this indicator.
As Electronic Arts’ recently announced restructuring gains momentum, even developers working on the company’s most successful games are not safe. It appears that Respawn Entertainment has been hit with layoffs.
At the end of February, Electronic Arts announced a new stage of restructuring and the decision to lay off 670 people. According to IGN, one of the "victims" of the changes in the company was the Respawn Entertainment studio.
The Far Cry franchise is turning 20 years old later this month. To celebrate the anniversary, Ubisoft has revealed its lifetime audience. Let’s also look at data on the most successful games in the series.
Supercell has a long history of killing games at various stages of development. Let’s take a look at all titles that have been officially discontinued by the Finnish company since its browser-based MMO Zombies Online.
Some of you may remember an antitrust lawsuit against Valve filed by Wolfire Games back in 2021. The court case recently entered a new phase, revealing some internal data, including never-before-seen emails from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.
The new Aspyr remaster did not meet expectations.
Adjust, together with Applovin, has released a report on the state of affairs in the mobile market — Mobile app trends: 2024 edition. A separate chapter is devoted to mobile games. Read more about them in our material.
Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has shared his thoughts on the current state of the video game market. He expects 2024 to be a tough year with a high level of uncertainty around sales, hardware, and content.
Beacon Interactive is going to use options and take over 4A Games and Zen Studios from Embracer Group. This is indicated by a letter from the head of the company Matthew Karch to Saber Interactive employees, an excerpt from which was published in X by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.
Beacon Interactive has been named as a buyer of parts of Saber Interactive through a deal with Embracer Group. Taking a closer look at the new owner, it can be assumed that Saber bought itself out of the Swedish holding company through a newly established entity.
According to the documents published on the web, it can be concluded (assumption) that, in fact, Saber Interactive bought itself from the Embracer Group.
Embracer Group has officially announced the divestment of one of its key operative groups, Saber Interactive. The Swedish holding company, however, will retain some of the assets and games in development.
2024 will be a difficult year for the US gaming market, predicts analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. He expects Americans to spend less on video games than in 2023.
The Swedish holding company Embracer Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a number of Saber Interactive assets for 2.57 billion Swedish kronor or $ 247 million.
Google is expanding its Google Play Games service by adding several important features. One of them is support for games built specifically for PC.
This was announced on the official website of the company by Scopely CEO Javier Ferreira.
It became known about the new investment of The Games Fund. This time, the venture fund invested $ 1.5 million in the Roar Games studio.
It appears that a group of indie studios have decided to join forces for a mysterious collaboration. The so-called Triple-i Initiative brings together studios behind games like Vampire Survivors, Darkest Dungeon, Slay the Spire, and more.
Google hosted the Google for Games Developer Summit event. As part of it, the corporation introduced a number of innovations for the Google Play app store.
Discord is becoming a new platform for the distribution of games. The creators of the chat service announced that from March 18, all interested developers will be able to create games that can be played directly in Discord itself. Previously, only selected developers had this opportunity.
Good news. Despite the crisis in the industry, new gaming companies are still emerging. Emanuel Palalic and Garrett Young have announced the launch of a new studio. It's called Emptyvessel. This is the second such announcement in the last 24 hours.
The Resident Evil 4 remake, one of the most successful games of 2023, has reached a new milestone. It has now cemented its place among the best-selling titles in the entire franchise.
Veteran console developer Stig Asmussen has announced the launch of his own game studio. It's called Giant Skull. The studio will develop AAA projects.
Discord is expanding its Activities feature by letting third-party developers build games that can be played directly on the platform. The company has also opened up funding opportunities for creators through a new pitch program.
The remake of Resident Evil 4 overcame this milestone in just under a year: the game was released on March 24, 2023.
During the spring, Apple promised to release an update that will allow European iOS users to download apps directly from developer websites.
Representatives of the service for game developers Balance announced the receipt of investments in the amount of 500 thousand dollars from the "veterans of the gaming industry".
A new AAA studio started by industry veterans has emerged. Emptyvessel, led by former id Software, Naughty Dog, Gearbox, and Activision developers, bills itself as a developer-founded, developer-first company.
Sensor Tower analytical company has released a report on the situation on the market of mobile hybrid casual games in 2023. We share the key findings.
There were a bunch of notable changes on the Steam charts last week. Several older titles managed to return to the leading positions, while players are also actively pre-ordering the upcoming Dragon’s Dogma 2.