Paradox Interactive has summed up the financial results of 2023. Below is the main thing from the report.

On January 31, Konami released Silent Hill: The Short Message is a small horror game in the Silent Hill universe, distributed for free on PlayStation 5. Today, the company announced that it took less than a week for the new product to reach the first million mark in downloads.

App2Top interviewed Roman Gordy, one of the co-founders of the service, discussing the impact of relocation on the gaming industry and the favored destinations among Russian developers.

Nintendo has published a financial report for three quarters, the last of which ended on December 31, 2023. We have chosen the main thing.

Belka Games has decided to wind down its business in Belarus. Portal dev.by I found in the data of the unified state register of the country that at the end of December 2023, the company began the liquidation of Minsk LLC Belka Games.

Playkot Studio announced that downloads of its mobile game in the Spring Valley Expedition genre exceeded 11.58 million.

Meta Corporation* has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2023, which ended on December 31. She said that thanks to strong sales of the new Quest 3 VR headset, her Reality Labs division managed to earn a record $1.07 billion.

SEGA has announced that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the fastest-selling game in the series. The new Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has crossed the first millionth milestone in a week since its release on January 25.

What should be understood by LiveOps, what tasks this discipline solves, why it is important not to confuse it with operating a game — the editors of App2Top talked about this and much more with Vadim Bulatov, the author of the course “LiveOps in games“.

Douglas Morin has left the post of CEO of Devolver Digital. His successor was Harry Miller, one of the founders of the company, who at one time already held the position of CEO.

Hasbro has decided to sell the IP rights to Dungeons & Dragons due to financial problems, the Chinese edition of Speed Daily reports, citing its sources. One of the potential buyers is Tencent.

Layoffs continue at Embracer Group’s subsidiary studios. This time, the Argentine studio Nimble Giant Entertainment, which recently released the 4X strategy Star Trek: Infinite, has joined the growing list of “victims” of restructuring.

A wave of layoffs has covered the Polish Artificer studio. According to Kotaku sources, on January 31, Artificer fired 25 people — about half of the staff. In the coming months, she intends to cut another 10-12 employees.

Insider Tom Henderson has published a lot of material on Ubisoft. His sources told how the company is doing.

Order of Meta is a Helsinki—based studio consisting of former employees of Wargaming, Panzerdog and HeroCraft. She recently successfully closed a seed funding round.

Electronic Arts (EA) has also published a financial report for the quarter ended December 31, 2023. Below is a squeeze from it.

Ensrouded survival debuted from the second place in the chart of the highest—grossing products on Steam over the past week, taking into account the free titles. The game was second in revenue only to the hit Palworld.

The theme of the next issue of the Games and Names podcast was LiveOps. Vikas Menon, who has been responsible for producing mobile games at Zynga for more than 11 years, shared his experience working on it.

Volition is one of the many studios affected by the restructuring of the Embracer Group. Six months after its closure, a group of former studio employees decided to reconvene to work on games together.