The third piece of news about layoffs today. Next up is Reflector Entertainment, the studio that developed the adventure action game Unknown 9: Awakening.

Sony is indeed looking to acquire the Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa, which owns the studio FromSoftware. In a message to investors, Kadokawa revealed that it has received a letter from Sony suggesting a deal.

In late October, it became known that AppLovin and its subsidiary gaming studio Machine Zone had laid off part of their staff. At that time, the number of employees who lost their jobs was not disclosed, but the portal SFGATE uncovered these figures in a statement submitted last week by AppLovin to the California state authorities.

The British publisher Kwalee recently laid off at least ten employees, according to the MobileGamer portal. Reportedly, the layoffs primarily affected the marketing department.

On November 19, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was released on PC and Xbox Series. Steam users criticized the new flight simulator. Only 14% of the players who left reviews rated it positively.

Bethesda Game Studios has updated the player count for Starfield. The studio announced that the audience for the space RPG has grown to 15 million people.

Google Corporation has summarized the initial results of the outgoing year and announced the best games in its app store for 2024.

Sales of Farming Simulator 25 surpassed 2 million copies a week after its release, reports Giants Software studio. This made the agricultural simulator’s launch the most successful in the series’ history.

The Finnish company Remedy Entertainment held a presentation for investors where it outlined its financial plans for the coming years. It also shared new information about its games.

During the week from November 12 to 19, Farming Simulator 25 earned more on Steam than any other paid game. This allowed it to top the platform’s premium chart, displacing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which held the first position for three weeks.

The venture company Play Ventures, which specializes in investments in gaming startups, has completed its third funding round. During this round, it raised $140 million.

At the end of last week, the GameMaker team celebrated the engine’s 25th birthday: its first version was released on November 15, 1999.

The platform now tracks traffic more accurately. This will enable developers to receive more reliable data on who is visiting the pages of their games.

Larian Studios’ Publishing Director Michael Douse shared on the social network X some impressive achievements of Baldur’s Gate 3. He mentioned that in 2024, several metrics of the game surpassed those in its release year.

The studio FromSoftware may become part of Sony. Sources from Reuters claim that Sony is in talks to purchase the developers’ parent company, Kadokawa.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. Next up is an article about the mobile parenting simulator Best Parent.

WN Media Group announced that as of today, the number of projects in the game discovery service WN Game Finder has reached 1,522. The company shared fresh statistics about the games featured in the catalog.

Tomas Sala, the creator of the building simulator Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles, shared his solo development experience and offered advice to fellow developers in Thomas Brush’s podcast.

Sales of the action-strategy game Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess were lower than Capcom had anticipated. The company disclosed this at an investor event focused on the results of the first half of fiscal 2024.