The company Aristocrat finalized the deal to sell the creators of RAID: Shadow Legends. Plarium now officially belongs to the media conglomerate Modern Times Group (MTG).

Embracer Group released a report detailing its earnings for October-December 2024. It also revealed current sales figures for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and shared the performance of other games.

Sony Corporation shared its financial results for October-December 2024. We selected key highlights from the report of its gaming division.

AppLovin has decided to focus on its advertising business. The company announced the sale of its entire gaming division.

Anton Gorelkin is a State Duma deputy and one of the authors of the bill “On the Development and Distribution of Video Games in the Russian Federation.” He shared his thoughts on the proposed amendments in his Telegram channel.

At the end of last year, Russian legislators proposed mandating games with an authorization option to offer several choices for Russian gamers — such as authorization via phone number, through the Gosuslugi service, or using biometric data. The sociological agency “Veber” discovered through a survey that Russians themselves do not support this idea.

Another company is conducting layoffs. Crytek announced that the challenging situation in the gaming industry forced it to let go of 15% of its staff.

The company Unity has undergone a wave of layoffs, reports the portal 80 Level. According to its information, this affected both the technical and advertising departments.

The Finnish company Remedy Entertainment has announced its financial results for 2024. Among other highlights, the company reported that Alan Wake 2 has finally started generating profit.

Publisher Kepler Interactive, known for releasing games like Sifu, Scorn, and Pacific Drive, announced an acquisition. The company has gained control over the French studio Tactical Adventures.

In recent years, the share of games on proprietary engines in Steam has significantly decreased, according to data from the analytics service VG Insights. In 2012, they were used in 71% of the new releases on the platform, but by 2024, this figure had dropped to just 13%.

The highest-grossing game on the Steam platform last week, without discounts on monetization types, was Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. During the period from February 4 to 11, the game by Daniel Vavra surpassed Counter-Strike 2 in revenue.

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen shared in the company’s official blog how the year 2024 was for them. According to him, it was a “rollercoaster ride.”

The book “How to Make Good Games: From Idea to Launch” has appeared on the shelves of Russian bookstores. It was written by Pyotr Prokhorenko, a veteran of the Russian gaming industry, who has made his mark since the early 2000s at Lesta Games, Nival, ONI Studio, Alternativa Games, Green Grey, and many other companies. Incidentally, he recently started working as a producer at Playducky. The editorial team at App2Top talked with Pyotr about the…

At the end of last year, Netflix began searching for a general manager for its gaming division. According to a job listing found by MobileGamer, the salary promised for this position is generous.

The mobile card game Pokémon TCG Pocket has led to a rapid rise in revenues for one of its developers. In the financial report for April to December 2024, the company DeNA reported that the profit from its gaming segment skyrocketed by 8126.8% to 21 billion yen (138.3 million dollars).

A new indie game publisher has emerged in Sweden. It is called Three Friends.

Proposals for refining the much-discussed bill “On the Activity of Developing and Distributing Video Games in the Territory of the Russian Federation” continue to pour into the State Duma. Recently, the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (ODVGI) sent lawmakers its amendments.

In the Steam documentation for partner-developers, a dedicated section on in-game advertising has appeared. The store has listed which advertising practices it supports and which ones it does not.