No project has yet managed to displace Helldivers 2 from the first place in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. In the week from February 27 to March 5, the cooperative shooter again surpassed Steam Deck and such hit games as Counter-Strike 2 and Palworld in revenue.

Last week, Owlcat Games studio posted a vacancy for a concept artist for its next project. Among the requirements for the candidate was the experience of working with Midjourney, DALL-E or other neural networks with which you can generate art. This condition caused a flurry of criticism.

Astrum Entertainment conducted a study on female gamers and gender stereotypes in games. To do this, she interviewed more than 9 thousand people. Of these, 7.8 thousand are men, and 1.2 thousand are women.

The series has achieved this result in 28 years. The first part of Persona was released in 1996.

At the end of February, Nintendo’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, which developed Yuzu, an emulator for games from the Nintendo Switch handheld console. A week later, it became known that the parties had concluded a settlement agreement.

Together with the Game Finder business partner search service, we continue the cycle of publications about games that are looking for investments and publishers. Next up is material about the Russian studio Aeroplan Games, which is preparing to release a game dedicated to the culture of the Altai Republic.

Last week, the hacker group Mogilevich claimed that it had stolen 189 GB of internal Epic Games data, but did not confirm its words in any way. Now she claims that there was actually no hacking. Moreover, other hackers were her target.

In recent months, a significant part of the gaming agenda has been layoffs. February was no exception. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, during the month, gaming companies fired or announced layoffs of at least 2,027 people.

As part of the launch of the course “How to become a recruiter in the gaming industry” on the WN Academy platform, we talked about the specifics of the profession with its author, Marina Lopatina from WN Media Group.

In September 2023, Supercell and the chess platform Chess.com we launched a collaboration in the games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale. Although the collaboration was unsuccessful for Clash of Clans, it turned out to be extremely successful for Clash Royale.

Steam has updated the online record, Apple has changed its mind about stopping support for progressive web applications on iOS in Europe, the number of gaming companies has grown in Brazil – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Following Okko, VK’s internal structure released its documentary series about the domestic gaming industry.

The Chinese 91Act has an amazing fate. A month ago, the studio was ready to close its doors: its CEO Jiang Lei announced serious financial problems and fired all employees. But then the situation suddenly improved.

The Defold Foundation has announced that its engine now supports the development of games for PlayStation 5. You can get all the necessary tools, documentation and source code of the engine for free. The only limitation is that you need to be an approved PlayStation developer to access them.

Chinese technology giant NetEase has released a financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year 2023. The company reported consistently good results from the gaming division.

Mobile developer and publisher Wildlife Studios, known primarily for Tennis Clash and Zooba games, has conducted a new round of layoffs. This time, the company cut 133 employees.

This happened after 19 years of working as a division of Activision. The information is official. This was announced on the studio’s website.

Kotaku reports that Gearbox is closer than ever to being sold.

This is reported by Bloomberg, who also clarifies that Saber will continue to develop a remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.