We continue wrapping up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Evgeny Maurus, the founder of AppQuantum.

The last two years have been marked by massive layoffs in the gaming industry. In 2023, more than 10,000 employees were laid off from gaming companies, but 2024 was even harsher — as reported by the Game Industry Layoffs portal, at least 15,048 people lost their jobs.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Sergey Belyaev, co-founder of the studio INFUSION GAMES.

Owners of the portable streaming console PlayStation Portal are most active at 9:00 PM. This was revealed in an interview with journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File by Hiromi Wakai, the Vice President of Product Management at Sony Interactive Entertainment.

The indie card hit Balatro has set a new personal record for concurrent players on Steam. On the night of December 27, its peak online player count on the platform reached 38,506 people.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams and experts in the gaming (or gaming-related) industry. Up next is an interview with Nikolai Borzov, co-founder of the PR agency FatPony.

On December 18, 2024, Snail Games and Studio Wildcard released ARK: Ultimate Mobile Edition — a mobile game set in the ARK universe. According to the companies, it reached over a million downloads in the first 24 hours.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is one of the mobile hits of 2024. The game has performed so well that the company DeNA, which participated in its development, was forced to revise its financial forecast for October-December 2024.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Jan Yankelevich, Business Development Director at Overmobile.

The studio Cats Who Play shared their results for 2024 on social media. Specifically, the team revealed that their real-time strategy game, “Frontline,” had accumulated over 170,000 downloads by the end of December.

The App2Top editorial team has analyzed the current state of the online gambling industry in Nigeria. They have focused specifically on legal issues and the slots market.

Although “Lesta Games” was registered in St. Petersburg since its founding in 1991, it bought its first property in the city only after more than three decades. The group of companies announced that it became the owner of the business center “Renaissance Pravda”.

Continuing with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and related fields) to summarize the year 2024. Up next is an interview with Alexander Lyubchenko, CMO of Kosmos Games.

The South Korean company DoubleU Games, specializing in social casinos, has decided to diversify its portfolio. The company announced the acquisition of Turkish studio Paxie Games — the creators of mobile merge puzzles.

Rockstar Games has once again faced a data leak. Several of its design documents, created in the early 2000s, have appeared in the public domain. These documents pertain to plans for developing games in the GTA series.

We continue to reflect on the outcomes of 2024 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and related fields). Up next, an interview with Alexandra Kurdumova and Alina Davletshina from Futura Digital (check out their Telegram channel).

The mobile card game Pokémon TCG Pocket continues to show excellent results. Analysts from Sensor Tower calculated that it has earned over $300 million worldwide.

In 2001, Naughty Dog became part of Sony Corporation, under whose wing it created the Uncharted and The Last of Us game series. Twenty-three years later, the studio’s co-founder Andrew Gavin explained in a LinkedIn post what prompted his team to make the deal with Sony.

Anton Gorelkin, a deputy of the Russian State Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, shared new details about the future Russian console on his Telegram channel. In particular, he spoke about its technical components.