We continue, along with top managers and experts in the gaming industry (and related sectors), to summarize the results of 2024. Up next is an interview with Natalia Yurkova, managing partner of i-Legal.

In mid-December, the capital of the United Arab Emirates hosted a summit for top gaming industry executives — the WN C-Level Summit.

Since the release of the Turkish mobile puzzle game Royal Kingdom, just over a month has passed: the game debuted on November 21, 2024. We consulted AppMagic’s data and reviewed its figures.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 together with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Ilya Boytsov, co-founder and CEO of the outsourcing studio MidHard Games.

On December 18, 2024, the Chinese company miHoYo released a major patch 1.4 for Zenless Zone Zero. Data from the AppMagic service indicates that the mobile version of the game set a new personal record for net daily IAP revenue as a result.

The publication GamesIndustry released a major infographic with key figures for the gaming industry at the close of 2024. Here are some insights.

The studio Unfrozen announced that Paul Romero, the longtime composer of the series, will write the music for Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era.

The Canadian studio Hothead Games has become another casualty of 2024. Today, December 20, information surfaced about the official closure of the team, renowned for the mobile sniper simulator Kill Shot.

We continue wrapping up 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with the founder and CEO of Black Snowflake, Philip Karmanov.

Second Life, one of the first metaverse games of the 2000s, is still alive and generating revenue for its creators. Key metrics and future prospects were discussed by Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale and its executive chairman Brad Oberwager in a conversation with VentureBeat.

The studio has only now announced the attracted investments. According to Crunchbase, the funds were secured back in the summer during a seed funding round.

Recently, Valve opened a special section on Steam where each user can view their gaming statistics for 2024. Some of the data in this section is compared with the entire Steam community.

Former and current employees of the GOG gaming platform shared with the Polish publication CD Action about the working environment in their division. They claim that CD PROJEKT conducts significant layoffs at GOG every two to three years, with the most recent ones having taken place two months ago.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or game industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Rikani Koyoko, the CEO and Art Director of RIK ANIMATION. Joining her in the responses is Vitaliy Terletski, founder of Terletski Games.

Investors of the Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa reacted coolly to the deal with Sony. As noted by Kantan Games analyst Serkan Toto, the company’s stock sharply fell in after-hours trading on December 19, with the price dropping by 15.95% immediately.

As of today, gamers have installed games from the Hill Climb Racing franchise on their devices 2.5 billion times. According to developers from the Finnish studio Fingersoft, this milestone makes Hill Climb Racing the most downloaded racing game series in the world.

Musician Johnny Gioeli from the band Crush 40 has filed a lawsuit against SEGA. He accuses the company of using the main theme he wrote for Sonic Adventure 2 in other projects without a license and failing to pay due royalties.

We continue to reflect on the outcomes of 2024 with teams and experts from the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Sergey Efremov, COO of Astrum Entertainment.