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In March 2023, Panic launched the app store for the portable hurdy-gurdy console Playdate — Catalog. According to her, over the past year, developers distributing projects on the site have earned a total of $544,290 there.

The organizers of the Gamedev conference.World, including indie developer Rami Ismail, presented the Global Games Fund. He will support gaming startups "outside the Western world."

What you should pay attention to when licensing soundtracks for the game, — Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, specialists of the REVERA law firm, told in their column for App2Top.

French publisher PulluP Entertainment (formerly Focus Entertainment) summed up the financial year ended March 31, 2024. We have selected the main thing from the report.

Stability AI, the company that created the neural network for generating Stable Diffusion images, has reduced 10% of the staff, or about 20 people. This is reported by CNBC with reference to a letter for employees.

On April 18, Private Division publishing house and Moon Studios released the No Rest for the Wicked role-playing game in early Steam access. Within a few hours, she surpassed the previous Private Division projects in terms of peak online on the site.

On April 10, 2024, the House Flipper 2 repair simulator was released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. Krzysztof Kostowski, CEO of the PlayWay company that published the game, shared the figures for the first 72 hours.

Fallout 4 topped the chart of the best-selling games in Europe in the last week, GamesIndustry reports, citing data from the GSD analytical platform. She managed to do this thanks to the premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts.

Devolver Digital has published a financial report for 2023. The company is still not making a profit, but its losses have decreased sevenfold.

The UK government-funded UK Games Fund has supported local gaming startups. He has allocated more than 3 million pounds for the development of 22 games.

In October 2023, Frontier Developments announced its decision to reduce staff. In a conversation with GLHF, several former and current employees of the company called the dismissal process extremely disrespectful.

The indie horror about the game of "Russian roulette" Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.

On April 17, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation again included UNIGINE in the register of domestic software. The engine has been missing from the list since the end of February.

The Open Mobile Platform company believes that the Aurora operating system it has created may be suitable for a future Russian console. According to the developers, Aurora already has the necessary tools to support console games.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, has raised $7.2 billion for new investments. She has already transferred $600 million of them to the budget of the a16z Games foundation, which deals with gaming companies.

Red Rover Interactive is a young studio founded last year by former employees of Funcom, Bohemia Interactive and Lockwood Publishing. On April 16, she successfully closed the Series A funding round.

Kevin Bentley, one of the developers of Descent 3, announced the discovery of the game's source code. The shooter's code can now be found on GitHub.

In a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Take-Two Interactive announced the launch of a cost-cutting program. As part of it, the publisher will lay off 5% of the staff by the end of the year.

The developer of the Shadow Fight series announced the conclusion of a partnership with the media company Story Kitchen. The latter will take up filming a TV project based on the yet-to-be-released game SPINE.

On April 14, War Robots celebrated its tenth anniversary. On this occasion, MY.GAMES company talked about the revenue of the game and its other metrics.

The British publisher Team17 has published a financial report for last year. We have chosen the main thing.

On August 10, 2022, the Singapore-based Habby company sent a mobile action bagel to the global release Survivor.io in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that since that moment, the project has earned more than $ 500 million from the IAP.

The popularity of the Fallout series has also spurred the revenue growth of the mobile version of Fallout Shelter. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, thanks to the premiere of the TV show, the daily revenue of the game in the App Store and Google Play increased fourfold.

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from Herbarium Games studio, which is developing a cooperative online action game BUS: Bro U Survived.

The premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts significantly increased Fallout sales on Steam. According to the results of the last week, five games of the series were included in the top 100 highest-grossing products on Steam at once.

The British publisher Kwalee has also taken up layoffs. The company has started restructuring, as part of which it has cut several dozen employees.

Medieval town planner Manor Lords topped the top of the most desired games in the Steam store, overtaking Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Frostpunk 2. According to the publisher of Hooded Horse, the title was added to the wish list of 2.5 million people.

The UK gaming market continues to grow, according to a report by the UKIE trade organization.

In early April, Yandex released the seventh version of the Mobile Ads SDK. Among other things, the SDK has a new advertising format — the feed.

The authorities of the South Korean city of Busan, together with the Busan IT Industry Development Agency, decided to support local youth engaged in game development. By the end of the year, they will be helping young developers with the payment of rental housing.

On April 11, the premiere of the serial adaptation of Fallout from Amazon took place. According to the SteamDB service, against this background, all games in the series have grown online on Steam.

Larian Studios was one of the largest sponsors of Blasphemous on Kickstarter, the former president of Blizzard offered to tip game developers, sales of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth turned out to be half as much as the first part — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Joost van Dreunen, best known as co-founder and former head of the now-closed research firm SuperData, has opened up about Sensor Tower’s acquisition of data.ai. The analyst is not enthusiastic about the new monopoly emerging in the mobile data market.

The German GAME Association has published a report on the state of the German gaming market over the past year. We have chosen the main thing.

VG Insights recently released a report on the state of free-to-play games on Steam. It takes a deep into the most played titles and the main trends in the area.

In March, Sensor Tower, an analytical company, announced the purchase of a rival company data.ai . Joost van Dreunen, founder and CEO of the now-closed SuperData, shared his opinion on the deal in his newsletter. He is pessimistic.

Content Warning is without a doubt one of the biggest surprise hit this year so far. However, developer Landfall Games didn’t expect the game to sell hundreds of thousands of units after the end of its viral free-to-claim launch.

The release of the cooperative horror Content Warning was a significant event for the Landfall Games studio. Thanks to the free distribution on the first day, the game attracted the attention of millions of gamers from all over the world. According to the developers, it continued to be in demand after the end of the promotion.

Electronic Arts (EA) continues to cut staff. Insider Tom Henderson found out that in a few weeks more than 40 testers from the UK who worked on Apex Legends will leave the company.

On April 11, the global strategy Revival: Recolonization was released on PC in full. App2Top talked with Sergey Ulankin, head of console and PC publishing at HeroCraft, about how development was going, how successful early access was, about working with VK Play, and much more.

App2Top brought together representatives of AdQuantum, Appska, Tenjin, AppsFlyer, Adjust and Appier to talk about the current situation in the mobile game advertising market. We discussed AI, the transition to the web, traffic prices and much more.

After Saber Interactive's exit from the Swedish Embracer Group holding, the company's CEO Matthew Karch is actively communicating with the press. This time, in an interview with GamesIndustry, he shared his thoughts on the cost of AAA games and their development.

Swiss mobile publisher Miniclip has announced a new M&A deal by acquiring UK studio FuturLab best known for its successful sim PowerWash Simulator.

Ampere Analysis has looked at the performance of the recently released Stellar Blade demo. And it appears that Shift Up’s upcoming surpassed the demo of another PS5 exclusive, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, in terms of daily active users (DAU).

The Swiss publisher of mobile games Miniclip has acquired a non-core asset for itself. The company includes FuturLab studio, which develops games for consoles and PCs and is best known for the PowerWash Simulator.

Saber Interactive head Matthew Karch has been on a press tour since his company’s split from Embracer Group. This time, he shared his thoughts on the sustainability of AAA game production and whether it is going to change in the future.

Yandex has decided to enter the cloud gaming market. She began accepting applications to participate in a closed testing service called "Plus Gaming".

Ascendant Studios has reportedly downsized again, just a little over six months after laying off nearly half of its staff. This time, the Immortals of Aveum developer stopped employing dozens of its remaining workers.

On March 29, South Korean studio Shift Up released a demo of the futuristic action game Stellar Blade on PlayStation 5 consoles. The game showed excellent results. Analysts from Ampere Analysis estimated that at its peak it attracted almost twice as many daily active users (DAU) as the demo version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth at the time.

The difficult times for gaming companies continue. Ascendant Studios, which created the Immortals of Aveum shooter, forcibly transferred most of its employees to a long unpaid leave. This is reported by the Game Developer with reference to a LinkedIn post by Phoenix Labs Chief Engineer Chris Morness.