Following Google, Apple Corporation has announced the best mobile games of 2024 in its app store.

Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad reported that the Chinese “beta” of Delta Force was played by over 40 million people. In China, it launched on PC earlier than in the rest of the world—on September 26, 2024.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Next in line is an interview with Kian Hozouri, the COO and co-founder of the analytics service ByteBrew.

Last month, it became known that Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, a Japanese media conglomerate whose subsidiary includes FromSoftware. Bunshun reported that Kadokawa employees are hopeful for a successful deal outcome.

Build A Rocket Boy announced the acquisition of a new studio. The acquisition involves PlayFusion, the team behind the card games Lightseekers and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions.

The Chinese company miHoYo won a lawsuit in Canada against the developers of cheat software Akebi GC, Acrepi, and Genshin XYZ. These programs allowed players to bypass rules in Genshin Impact.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams in the gaming industry (or closely related to it). Up next is an interview with the director of Sobaka Studio, Dmitry Kachkov.

Publisher Game Seer shared the successes of Half Sword with GameDiscoverCo. This is the debut project from the similarly named studio, Half Sword Games.

Nintendo has acquired 100% of the shares of the Japanese studio Monolith Soft, known for the Xenoblade Chronicles series. This information appeared on the Monolith Soft website, as noted by Automaton Media.

Developers from China are investing significant funds in advertising their games and applications on the Russian marketplace RuStore. According to VK’s estimates, from January to November 2024, they spent over 60 million rubles promoting through the “VK Advertising” platform.

The Polish company People Can Fly has decided to focus more on developing games in partnership with other companies. These include Project Gemini, which is being developed in collaboration with Square Enix, and Project Maverick, with support from Microsoft.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Next up is an interview with Vera Velichko, the CEO of the outsourcing company OWL studio.

The Google team has compiled a list of the most popular search queries of the outgoing year. In the “Games” category, the leader was Connections—a word puzzle from The New York Times, where you need to group words by meaning.

The Drucker Institute has published its annual ranking of public companies in the United States with the most effective management. Among them is a number of companies related to gaming.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or game-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Anton Mikhaylov, the creative director of the indie studio Tortuga Team.

Enish is a Japanese mobile studio known for games like De:Lithe Last Memories and 進撃の巨人 Brave Order. The company decided to give its employees an unpleasant New Year’s gift by cutting part of its workforce.

Dauntless reached its release on Steam five years after the original launch. Users greeted it, to put it mildly, coldly. Currently, Dauntless has an “overwhelmingly negative” rating on Steam with only 14% positive reviews.

The latest achievement from Grinding Gear Games is another milestone. Path of Exile 2 topped the list of the best-selling products on Steam for the week ending December 10th.

The owner of itch.io, Leaf Corcoran, provided a detailed comment regarding yesterday’s website outages.