Backpack Battles has become one of the surprise indie hits of 2024. In its first month, the inventory management auto battler reached an impressive milestone of 640k units sold on Steam.
May 31 will be the last working day at Remedy Entertainment for the company's chief operating officer Christopher Schmitz. He will retire after five years of work.
Capcom has revised its outlook for the full-year ended March 31, 2024. The Japanese publisher expects its annual revenue and profit to hit new record highs.
Metacore closed 2023 with an operating loss of 5.6 million euros. This was announced in an interview with MobileGamer by Mika Tammenkoski, CEO of the Finnish studio.
Indie studio PlayWithFurcifer and publisher IndieArk spoke with gaming expert Simon Carless. They revealed the statistics of the PvP autobatcher Backpack Battles and told how the game managed to succeed.
Paradox Interactive has released its report for the first quarter of 2024 ended March 31. The publisher posted stable financial results, also admitting that the quality of its games should be more consistent.
Capcom has revised its forecast for the last fiscal year (April 2023 — March 2024). It expects its revenue and operating profit to reach new record levels.
The Swedish company Paradox Interactive has released a financial report for the first quarter of 2024, which ended on March 31. We have chosen the main thing.
Nintendo's lawyers drew attention to Garry's Mod sandbox. They demanded that content related to the intellectual property of the Japanese company be removed from the game.
We analyze in detail one of the main novelties of spring in the mobile games market.
11 bit studios is celebrating the sixth anniversary of Frostpunk. The survival city builder’s lifetime sales have now surpassed 5 million copies.
With the PC and console market dominated by evergreen live service hits and established franchises, it is interesting to see how many new releases are able to compete with them. Newzoo has shared some data on the top games by revenue in the first quarter of 2024.
Apple and Epic Games will meet again in court
· a day agoApple and Epic Games will face another trial in court. A hearing will be held on May 8, during which Epic Games will try to prove that Apple violated the court order.
Analyst Serkan Toto from Kantan Games has compiled the top 9 best Western mobile game publishers in terms of revenue in the Japanese market.
The Games Workshop company, which owns the rights to the Warhammer universe, announced that financial director Rachel Tongue sold 7.5 thousand shares owned by her for 711.7 thousand pounds, or about 885 thousand dollars. She got rid of the shares shortly after a scandal broke out in the Warhammer 40,000 community over changes to Laura.
Unreal Engine 5.4 has been officially released. The new version of Epic Games’ technology introduces new features and many improvements to built-in animation tools and overall performance.
Epic Games has officially released an updated version of the Unreal Engine — 5.4. It has significantly improved the quality of animation and improved rendering performance.
Valve has just updated Steam’s refund policy. It will now count playtime even before the game’s global release date, making it more difficult for players to abuse the system.
Valve has made changes to the refund policy on Steam. She began to take into account the time spent by the user in the game during the extended access period.
The hard times in the gaming industry continue. Flaming Fowl Studios, founded by Lionhead Studios veterans, has reported financial problems.
Atari has suddenly launched a new publishing label under the revived Infogrames brand. And it has already announced its game acquisition.
KRAFTON has invested money in the Polish studio Far From Home, known for cooperative survival on the Forever Skies airship. She announced the purchase of a minority stake.
No Rest for the Wicked had a strong debut on the Steam charts, outperforming many popular premium and free-to-play titles. Let’s take a close look the top games by gross revenue for the previous week.
tinyBuild has published a financial report for 2023. Its revenue was much lower than in 2022. The company also failed to make an operating profit.
tinyBuild has released its report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The company saw declines in all major business metrics, while sticking to its new long-term strategy aimed at improving its operations.
The new Moon Studios game has become one of the highest-grossing projects on Steam over the past week. No Rest for the Wicked started from the fifth place in the Steam sales chart, taking into account free games. If you exclude them, then she will be in third place.
Bethesda has closed a division in France
· 2 days agoBethesda's French office ceased to exist after 12 years of operation. The company has not officially announced the closure of Bethesda France, but former employees of the division are already writing about it on social networks.
Meta* Corporation has announced a major change in its business strategy related to virtual reality. She began licensing the Meta* Horizon OS operating system to other VR headset manufacturers.
Gas Station Simulator has reached a new milestone. Polish developer DRAGO entertainment has revealed that the game has generated over $10 million in revenue on Steam alone since its launch in September 2021.
The Early Access version No Rest for the Wicked, a new action RPG from Moon Studios, launched on Steam last week. Despite technical issues and initially mixed reception from players, the game has already managed to reach a relatively large audience.
Polish studio DRAGO Entertainment has announced a new achievement of the tanker simulator Gas Station Simulator. According to the developers, since the release, the total revenue of the Steam version of the game and add-ons for it has exceeded $ 10 million.
Shortly after the end of its cost-cutting restructuring program, Embracer Group has announced a new transformative move. The Swedish holding company will now split into three standalone public entities.
The Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games (aka R.A.D.I. Video Games) proposed to the government to create a registry of games that are shipped to Russia. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to sources close to the government.
The management of the Embracer Group has announced a decision to split the Swedish holding into three companies, each of which will be separately listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock Exchange.
The main thing for the weekend (April 20-21)
· 3 days agoSeveral games in the Fallout series have updated the online record on Steam, the court sided with Take-Two in the LeBron James tattoo case, Savvy Games Group decided to increase investments in mobile games, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.
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.
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Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2024 report. Here are the key takeaways, including revenue and download data, as well as the main trends across various genres and regions.