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News Today 15:24

India has recognized Google’s Play Store payment policy as anti-competitive

A court in India has ruled that Google Play’s billing policy violates the country’s antitrust laws. It has imposed a fine of 2.2 billion rupees ($25.7 million) on Google.

News Today 14:39

Study: 59% of Russian gamers purchase digital game items

The media holding Rambler&Co and the service “Kuper” surveyed 32,700 Russians about video games. Here are some figures from the study.

News Today 13:33

PLAION confirmed the layoff of some employees

PLAION (formerly Koch Media) is a subsidiary of the Embracer Group holding, which also owns Warhorse Studios, Deep Silver, Prime Matter, and several other gaming teams. The company has officially announced its decision to conduct layoffs.

News Today 11:38

KRAFTON has acquired a controlling stake in the creators of Real Cricket for $13.75 million

The South Korean company KRAFTON has acquired another subsidiary studio. It has taken control of the Indian team Nautilus Mobile, known for the series of mobile cricket simulators Real Cricket.

News Today 10:06

inZOI launched on Steam with positive reviews and an online presence exceeding 60,000 users

On March 28, KRAFTON released the life simulator inZOI in early access on Steam. Judging by the initial feedback, gamers were pleased with the game.

Ubisoft will transfer Assassin’s Creed and two other franchises to a subsidiary company. A minority investor in this subsidiary is Tencent

Ubisoft announced the creation of a subsidiary company to which it plans to transfer some of its major franchises. Tencent has become an investor in the new organization.

3 million people have played Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Ubisoft announced that the audience for Assassin’s Creed Shadows has surpassed 3 million players. This number was reached within a week of the game’s release: it launched on March 20.

More than half of the games on Steam have been in early access for less than a year

During the presentation at GDC 2025, Valve representatives revealed statistics on games launched in Early Access on Steam. Below are the key figures.

Valve: Chinese has become the most popular language on Steam

At the GDC 2025 developers’ conference, Valve shared some data about Steam. Specifically, it revealed that in 2024, the Chinese language overtook English as the most popular language on the platform.

The developers of Star Citizen have closed their Los Angeles office

Cloud Imperium Games has closed its Los Angeles office. The company announced the closure in a newsletter to users who have donated significant funds for the development of Star Citizen.

The former owner of Pokémon GO lays off several dozen employees following the sale of the gaming division

Niantic is also cutting part of its workforce amid restructurings that followed the sale of Pokémon GO and its other games to mobile publisher Scopely.

Layoffs occurred at the studio behind Tomb Raider

Even after the completion of restructuring within the Embracer Group, the subsidiary studios of the holding continue to lose staff. Crystal Dynamics announced its decision to downsize its workforce.

Sensor Tower: In its debut week, mo.co from Supercell amassed 2.5 million downloads, which is 12 times less than Squad Busters

A week ago, Supercell released a new game—a mobile action RPG called mo.co. PocketGamer journalists, citing the analytics company Sensor Tower, shared the project’s early results.

The marketing of MONOPOLY GO! cost its creators over a billion dollars

The head of Scopely, Javier Ferreira, shared in an interview with Bloomberg that his company continues to spend significant amounts on promoting the mobile blockbuster MONOPOLY GO!. As of today, the marketing investments for the game have exceeded one billion dollars.

The third-largest profit in history and a partnership with Scopely are the main highlights from CD PROJEKT’s annual report

The Polish company group CD PROJEKT reported on the past year, announcing record development expenditures and plans to release a mobile game in collaboration with the creators of MONOPOLY GO!.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has taken the top spot on the chart of best-selling paid games on Steam

For the week from March 18 to 25, the leader in the Steam sales chart among paid games was Assassin’s Creed Shadows. In the overall ranking, which also includes free-to-play titles, Counter-Strike 2 has been in the lead for the third consecutive week.

Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group is considering acquiring developers of console and PC games

Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), is planning new gaming acquisitions and investments. After several significant deals in the mobile sector, it does not rule out that it might sign an M&A agreement with developers for “major” platforms.

Geoff Keighley has invested in The Game Business, a gaming media outlet founded by the former head of GamesIndustry

Christopher Dring, who led the editorial team of one of the largest portals on the business side of the gaming industry, GamesIndustry, for over eight years, has launched his own media outlet. It is called The Game Business.

A new indie hit on Steam, the drug business simulator Schedule I, has attracted over 68,000 concurrent players

Steam users enthusiastically welcomed Schedule I, a drug business simulator developed by the Australian indie studio, Tyler’s Video Game Studio (TVGS). The game was released in early access on the night of March 25th and immediately made it into the top ten most popular new releases of 2025 on the platform.

Media: The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has tasked the creators of “Elbrus” with developing a new processor for a Russian gaming console

By the end of 2024, it was announced that the upcoming Russian gaming console would be equipped with an “Elbrus” processor. It was initially assumed that one of the existing processor models would be chosen for the console, but it did not satisfy the requirements of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

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