On the evening of December 11, Anton Gorelkin, a deputy and deputy chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, announced that on December 12, a draft law regulating the Russian gaming industry would be submitted to the State Duma for consideration. The editorial team of App2Top obtained the text of the draft law. Here's a straightforward explanation of what it entails.

AFK Journey, What If…? An Immersive Story, Squad Busters, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Balatro+ are among the apps that have secured a place on Apple's list of App Store Award winners for 2024

Following Google's lead, Apple has announced the best mobile games of 2024 in its App Store

Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad reported that more than 40 million people played the Chinese "beta" of Delta Force. In China, it launched on PC earlier than in the rest of the world—on September 26, 2024

Continuing to wrap up 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Kian Hozouri, COO and co-founder of the analytics service ByteBrew

Last month, it was revealed that Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, a Japanese media conglomerate whose subsidiaries include FromSoftware. Bunshun reported that employees at Kadokawa are hopeful for a successful outcome of the deal.

Build A Rocket Boy announced the acquisition of a new studio. It is PlayFusion — the team that developed the card games Lightseekers and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions.

Another game development studio is switching to a cost-cutting mode. People Can Fly has decided to reduce its self-publishing strategy and restructure its operations.

Nintendo has completed its acquisition of Monolith Soft by purchasing the remaining shares, after initially holding a 96% stake in the studio.

The Chinese company miHoYo won a lawsuit in Canada against the cheat software developers Akebi GC, Acrepi, and Genshin XYZ. Their software allowed players to bypass the rules in Genshin Impact.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with teams from the gaming industry (or related to it). Up next is a short interview with Dmitry Kachkov, director of Sobaka Studio

The publisher Game Seer shared the successes of Half Sword with GameDiscoverCo. This is the debut project of the studio Half Sword Games.

The Polish game development company, People Can Fly, has revealed additional layoffs impacting over 120 employees

Nintendo has become the owner of 100% of the shares in the Japanese studio Monolith Soft, known for the Xenoblade Chronicles game series. This information appeared on the Monolith Soft website, as noted by the publication Automaton Media

Developers from China are investing significant amounts of money in advertising their games and applications on the Russian marketplace RuStore. According to VK's calculations, from January to November 2024, they spent over 60 million rubles on promotion through the "VK Advertising" platform.

The Polish company People Can Fly has decided to focus more on developing games in partnership with other companies. Examples include Project Gemini, which they are working on with Square Enix, and Project Maverick, being developed with the support of Microsoft.

Clear Angle Studios, a company specializing in 3D capture and processing, has launched a new facility in Culver City, Los Angeles

GamesIndustry.biz has scheduled one final territory special before the year concludes, focusing the remainder of the week on providing insights into India

Pocketpair has announced a few changes to the creature-summoning mechani  in Palworld. This comes amid the studio’s legal battle with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams from the gaming industry (or those related to it). Up next is an interview with Vera Velichko, the CEO of the outsourcing company OWL Studio

The Google team compiled a list of the most popular search queries of the past year. In the "Games" category, the leader was Connections — a word puzzle by The New York Times, where you have to group words by meaning.

The Drucker Institute published its annual ranking of publicly traded companies in the United States with the most effective management. Among them were several companies related to gaming

Following its successful Early Access launch, Path of Exile 2 has become the highest-grossing game on Steam globally.

Build A Rocket Boy has purchased PlayFusion for an undisclosed amount.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams in the gaming (or game-related) industry. Up next is an interview with Anton Mikhailov, the creative director of the indie studio Tortuga Team

Enish is a Japanese mobile studio known for games like De:Lithe Last Memories and Attack on Titan: Brave Order. They decided to give employees an unpleasant New Year's surprise by reducing part of their staff

Dauntless has reached its release on Steam five years after its original launch. Users have received it, to put it mildly, coldly. Currently, Dauntless has an "overwhelmingly negative" rating on Steam with only 14% positive reviews.

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has initiated the process of reimbursing consumers who were affected by what are described as dark pattern tactics allegedly employed by Epic Games, resulting in unintended purchases

Grinding Gear Games has achieved another milestone. Path of Exile 2 topped the list of highest-grossing products on Steam for the week of December 3 to 10.

Itch.io owner Leaf Corcoran provided a detailed comment on yesterday's site outages

Recently, Rush Royale turned four years old, with the global release of the game occurring on December 8, 2020. In honor of the anniversary, the company MY.GAMES updated the project's performance metrics

One of the latest patches for Palworld removed the ability to summon captured creatures by throwing special spheres onto the field. The developers have not commented on the change, but online speculation suggests it was made due to legal proceedings with the owners of the Pokémon franchise

Xsolla has joined forces with the telecommunications company StarNest to establish a new academy for game development.

Rocksteady Studios has announced it will discontinue support for Suicide Squad in under a year since its launch

One of the biggest oddities of recent days has happened to the owners of itch.io, a digital storefront and platform for indie game developers. Here are the main details of why the website suddenly went offline.

The HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 by Square Enix debuted at the top of Japan's November sales charts, with 712,188 copies sold on the Switch in two weeks.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming business-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Irma Novikova, an international law attorney at Prospectacy.

The Japanese cyber police have arrested a man for hacking and selling modified save data for Pokémon Sun for the Nintendo 3DS. The hacker was offering gamers a version with 800 unlocked Pokémon for $35.

Colin Anderson, the composer of the early iconic GTA installments, reminisced about the good old days when a game was fully polished at release. Today, he says, developers have become too complacent, relying on day-one patches

On December 9, 2024, Itch.io experienced a temporary outage that took the entire platform offline, though it now seems to be operational again

Papergames studio reported on the initial downloads of the gacha game Infinity Nikki. They announced that the number of downloads worldwide exceeded 10 million. It took five days to reach this milestone: Infinity Nikki was released on December 5, 2024

NetEase has shared the first figures for its new free-to-play hero shooter Marvel Rivals. The game’s launch has turned out to be successful.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams involved in gaming (or related to the gaming business). Up next is an interview with Anton Vinogradov, co-founder of the game porting and publishing studio Samustai.

On December 9, the website itch.io, a digital store specializing in indie games, stopped working. According to the platform's administration, the domain registrar shut down access to it after receiving a complaint from the toy manufacturer Funko

The most recent episode of The GamesIndustry.biz Microcast is now ready for download, providing a brief overview of the major news events from the past week

In an article for Game World Observer, Appodeal Publishing shares three proven user acquisition (UA) strategies to help mobile devs and publishers make the most of the holidays. There’re also insights into how Join Blocks used these strategies to increase installs by 6x and revenue by 300% during Christmas.

The two largest shareholders of Ubisoft are still engaged in talks regarding a potential buyout that aims to privatize the publisher of Assassin's Creed. However, a recent report indicates that there is a disagreement concerning future control of the company

Ubisoft's shares have nearly halved in value since the beginning of the year amid criticism from both players and investors. Aldora analyst Joost van Dreunen believes that there is an opportunity for the market to consider purchasing the French publisher

Grinding Gear Games has finally released a sequel to its successful action RPG Path of Exile. Let’s take a closer look at its impressive metrics.

CI Games stated that its overall game sales have increased thanks to systematic updates and working with player feedback. This was reported by the company's president, Marek Tyminski, in an interview with the Polish agency PAP Biznes