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 an investor presentation where it discussed its financial plans for the coming years and 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.

The role-playing action game Solo Leveling: Arise has surpassed the $100 million revenue mark from IAP on mobile devices, according to data from the analytics service AppMagic. It took the game just over half a year to achieve this.

Over 500 employees have decided to leave NCSOFT as part of its voluntary retirement program. This was reported by Yonhap News, citing industry sources.

A conflict has erupted between the management of Summer Eternal and Longdue Games—studios launched this fall by former members of ZA/UM. Argo Tuulik, co-founder of Summer Eternal, has been issued a court order preventing him from developing games at his studio until April 2025.

Papergames shared details about the development of the upcoming Infinity Nikki. The CEO of the studio, Runhao Yao, in his official address to fans, revealed that the project is being developed by the efforts of over a thousand specialists.

The online player count for Half-Life 2 on Steam has reached an all-time high, Telegram introduced a full-screen mode for mini-games, and the head of Grove Street Games criticized Rockstar Games for removing mentions of his studio from the GTA trilogy remasters. Here’s a rundown of the major events in the gaming industry this past weekend.

On November 21, WN Summit Vietnam’24 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam.