Young Russians are spending significant amounts on video games, reports Mash, citing data from the “Center for Gambling Addiction Prevention”.

The company has three months to improve the situation.

Over the past decade, there has been an increase in interest in online gambling among U.S. residents, according to a Gallup survey. A total of 2,200 American adults participated in the survey.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has a better chance of having a strong start compared to last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, according to Alinea Analytics. Analysts have observed that during the pre-order stage, the shooter is enjoying quite a decent demand on Steam.

Raze and Rebuild Studio calls itself a cooperative of developers seeking to “revive the gaming industry from the ashes.”

Despite the fact that Disco Elysium was released more than six years ago, a wave of its imitators and “spiritual successors” threatens to flood the market only now. We tried to analyze, based on the numbers, whether there is commercial potential in this niche.

The gaming industry is not only experiencing layoffs and team closures. There is also positive news — two new game development studios have been announced.

At least, that’s what former senior game designer at Rockstar San Diego, Kris Roberts, says.

In recent years, Bethesda Game Studios, along with other Microsoft gaming teams, have experienced several waves of mass layoffs. However, the atmosphere was much calmer in the past, claims the studio’s senior 3D artist, Alex Nguyen.

In its recent study, Bain & Company dedicated a section to the situation with direct sales (D2C) in gaming. Below are some findings.

This conclusion was reached by the consulting firm Bain & Company, which surveyed 5,300 people worldwide.

The Finnish Tax Administration is no longer required to treat each spin in online casinos as a separate taxable event. This decision was made by the country’s Supreme Administrative Court.

The studio Archetype Entertainment boasted about its first major achievement with Exodus—this space role-playing action game has gathered half a million wishlists across all platforms.

The Apple Corporation has once again updated the policy of the European version of its app store, prompted by proceedings with the European Commission regarding its “gatekeeper” status in the EU.

The head of S-GAME Studio, Qiwei Liang, announced this on the social network Bilibili.

Antitrust proceedings in several countries and the subsequent changes in App Store rules have led to a decrease in Apple’s revenue from store commissions. This is reported by the Financial Times, citing analysts’ data.

Recently, Arco — a fantasy turn-based game with pixel art style — celebrated its second anniversary. On this occasion, its composer José Ramón, in an interview with Game Developer, boasted that the game has finally recouped its production costs.

The Cyprus Game Developers Association CYGMA released a comprehensive report on the state of the country’s gaming industry. It discussed the revenues of game development companies based in Cyprus, the M&A situation, and many other aspects. Below are the main points from the document.

The company tinyBuild has decided to take legal action against Max Ent Games (formerly Merge Games). The reason for the dispute is the royalties from the sales of the survival game about miniature people, Smalland: Survive the Wilds.