Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has reached another milestone. Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive announced that the number of players in the action game has exceeded 5 million.

The head of VK Play, Alexander Mikheev, admitted at the “RED EXPO” conference that at the dawn of the platform’s creation, his team approached positioning incorrectly. As a result, players thought that VK Play was aiming to become a fully-fledged domestic alternative to Steam, but VK planned to create an auxiliary service for convenient game purchases.

At the Skolkovo Foundation, a new division dedicated to fostering the Russian gaming industry has been announced. It is called “Sk Games.”

Roblox has joined the ranks of companies opposing the massive fees from Apple and Google for in-app purchases (IAP). Now users can get 25% more of the in-game currency, Robux, by purchasing it through the official Roblox ecosystem, bypassing mobile stores.

The analytics service AppMagic has named the ten mobile games in the match-3 genre with the highest revenue from IAP. More than half of the projects in the top list are games from King and Playrix.

Block Blast! is a mobile block puzzle game in the spirit of “Pentamino” and “Tetris,” developed by Hong Kong-based Hungry Studio. According to its creators, the game is very popular.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, is looking to expand his business portfolio with a new startup. This time, by establishing his own gaming studio based on his AI project, xAI.

Repairing a reputation is a long and challenging process. This is something the developers of the space action game No Man’s Sky can attest to. It took their game eight years to achieve 80% positive reviews on Steam.

Many gaming companies today are publicly traded. Their stocks are traded, and dividends are earned from their securities. But how actively are the employees of gaming companies involved in this?

The organization Dataspelsbranschen has released a report on the state of the Swedish gaming industry for 2023. Below are data on the industry’s revenue, the most profitable companies, and the number of developers in the country.

Recently, a new mobile game by Strategy Park and HeroCraft, Strategy & Tactics: Blitz, was released. We spoke with the game developers about monetizing hardcore projects and specific production features.

The Russian studio Cyberia Nova has revealed the figures for “Smuta.” They announced that as of today, the project has reached one million downloads. This number includes both sales of “Smuta” and downloads of free add-ons from the educational mode “Time of Troubles,” which are distributed separately from the game.

Path of Exile 2 is gearing up for its early access release, with the game launching on December 6. According to estimates from the analytics service VG Insights, over 1.7 million Steam users have added this action RPG to their wishlists ahead of its release.

Another studio of BioWare veterans has encountered difficulties. Following the closure of Humanoid Studios, it has become known that the Canadian studio Worlds Untold has decided to temporarily halt operations.

Shuhei Yoshida, one of Sony’s veterans, has announced his departure from the corporation. In January 2025, he will step down as head of the PlayStation Indies division and embark on a well-deserved retirement.

On the evening of November 26, CD PROJEKT released its financial report for the third quarter of 2024. The Polish group of companies reported a decrease in revenue and profit alongside increased expenses for game development. It also highlighted the sales of Cyberpunk 2077.

In light of the upcoming release of Priest Simulator: Vampire Show, its developers have announced that they do not plan to support the game in the future. It has been in Steam’s early access since October 2022.

The card game Balatro has successfully made its mark on smartphones. As noted by Andrey Zubov, the head of content at AppMagic, within two months of release, the mobile version of the project has generated $3 million in net revenue.

Today marks the launch of the open beta test for the domestic game engine Nau Engine.