Analytics October 15, 2024

AppMagic: The Most Downloaded and Top-Grossing Mobile Games of September 2024

Basing on data from AppMagic, the editorial team at App2Top prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games from last month.

News October 15, 2024

Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with dissatisfied gamers regarding the acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Microsoft has resolved a dispute with American gamers who had been attempting to block the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion for almost two years.

News October 15, 2024

Analysts: In 2024, indie games on Steam for the first time nearly matched the revenue of AA and AAA games

From January 1 to September 30, 2024, indie games earned a total of $4 billion on Steam, according to a report from the analytics company VG Insights. This accounts for 48% of the total revenue of all games on Valve’s store during this period.

News October 15, 2024

Head of Xbox Game Studios Alan Hartman is leaving Microsoft after more than 30 years of service

Alan Hartman, one of Microsoft’s veterans, has decided to leave the corporation. At the end of November, he will step down from his role as head of Xbox Game Studios and retire.

News October 14, 2024

Hooded Horse shared their achievements for the year — 9.5 million wishlists and 4.5 million copies of games sold

An indie publisher shared information about the sales and wishlists accumulated by some of its games. Over the past 12 months, the company’s published games have sold a total of 4.5 million copies.

News October 14, 2024

KRAFTON has invested in the Spanish studio EF Games

The developer of PUBG has announced an investment in the young Spanish studio, EF Games. The details of the deal, including the amount and conditions, have not been disclosed.

News October 14, 2024

Crime Scene Cleaner earned $5.44 million on Steam in two months

Two months ago, President Studio and PlayWay released the crime scene cleanup simulator Crime Scene Cleaner on PC. The CEO of PlayWay, Krzysztof Kostowski, shared on social media the achievements of the game during this time.

News October 14, 2024

Sensor Tower: In the first half of 2024, the number of mobile game downloads in Southeast Asia exceeded 4.2 billion

Sensor Tower released a report on the state of the mobile gaming market in Southeast Asia for the first half of 2024. Here are the numbers and trends.

News October 14, 2024

Study: Cracking Denuvo protection in the release week results in a 20% drop in game revenue

William Volckmann, a staff member of the American research institute Institute for Private Capital, attempted to determine how piracy affects game revenue. To achieve this, he analyzed 86 games with Denuvo protection released on Steam between September 2014 and December 2022.

News October 14, 2024

Metaphor: ReFantazio entered the top 5 most popular JRPGs on Steam

On the evening of October 13, the peak online player count for Metaphor: ReFantazio on Steam reached a record high for the game—85,961 people. As a result, it claimed the fifth spot for most concurrent players among games tagged with JRPG on the platform.

News October 14, 2024

Game Freak suffered a major data breach

Late last week, it was revealed that Game Freak, the developer of the Pokémon game series, fell victim to a cyberattack. It is believed to be the largest breach in the franchise’s history. Game Freak has already confirmed the hack, stating that it took place in August 2024.

News October 14, 2024

Another gaming association has been established in Russia

The newspaper “Kommersant” reported that a new industrial association, the “Association of the Gaming Industry” (AGI), has started operating in Russia.

News October 14, 2024

Weekend Highlights (October 12-13)

Former developers of Disco Elysium have opened another studio, Steam has started warning users that they’re purchasing only a game license, and estimates suggest the Until Dawn remake on PlayStation 5 attracted fewer players than Concord. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News October 11, 2024

Madden NFL 25 became the best-selling game in August in the United States, continuing its 25-year streak of successful releases

The analytical company Circana presented a report on the state of the U.S. gaming market for August, highlighting key trends and the best-selling games among American gamers.

News October 11, 2024

In four years, Genshin Impact has earned over 5 billion dollars in China alone (including third-party Android stores)

Genshin Impact continues to impress with its financial results. According to analysts from Niko Partners, the mobile version of the game has generated $5 billion in China alone since its launch in 2020. Considering international markets, its total mobile revenue could reach $10 billion by 2025.

News October 11, 2024

Analysts: Palworld sales in China exceeded 5 million copies

China is the largest market for Palworld in terms of the number of game users. This was recently mentioned by John Buckley, the community manager of Pocketpair studio, in an interview with the portal Game Rant.

News October 11, 2024

Former developers of Disco Elysium have opened two new studios

It has been reported that two gaming studios, founded by former ZA/UM developers, have been launched. Both studios plan to create RPGs.

News October 11, 2024

NaturalMotion is preparing to lay off some employees in the US and UK

The developer NaturalMotion, part of Zynga, is preparing to conduct layoffs at its offices in the United States and the United Kingdom.

News October 11, 2024

Sales of Metaphor: ReFantazio surpassed one million copies

Today, October 11, Metaphor: ReFantazio, a new RPG from the creators of Persona, was released on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The launch of the project turned out to be extremely successful.

News October 11, 2024

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development’s experiment to create a Russian equivalent of GitHub has been canceled

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has officially abandoned the experiment to create a unified national repository of open source software in Russia. This was announced by Ilya Massukh, Director of the Competence Center for Import Substitution in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies, at the “PROF-IT” conference.

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AppMagic: The Most Downloaded and Top-Grossing Mobile Games of September 2024

Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with dissatisfied gamers regarding the acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Analysts: In 2024, indie games on Steam for the first time nearly matched the revenue of AA and AAA games

Head of Xbox Game Studios Alan Hartman is leaving Microsoft after more than 30 years of service

Hooded Horse shared their achievements for the year — 9.5 million wishlists and 4.5 million copies of games sold

KRAFTON has invested in the Spanish studio EF Games

Crime Scene Cleaner earned $5.44 million on Steam in two months

Sensor Tower: In the first half of 2024, the number of mobile game downloads in Southeast Asia exceeded 4.2 billion

Study: Cracking Denuvo protection in the release week results in a 20% drop in game revenue

Metaphor: ReFantazio entered the top 5 most popular JRPGs on Steam

Game Freak suffered a major data breach

Another gaming association has been established in Russia

Weekend Highlights (October 12-13)

Madden NFL 25 became the best-selling game in August in the United States, continuing its 25-year streak of successful releases

In four years, Genshin Impact has earned over 5 billion dollars in China alone (including third-party Android stores)

Analysts: Palworld sales in China exceeded 5 million copies

Former developers of Disco Elysium have opened two new studios

NaturalMotion is preparing to lay off some employees in the US and UK

Sales of Metaphor: ReFantazio surpassed one million copies

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development’s experiment to create a Russian equivalent of GitHub has been canceled