On September 23, the Swedish indie studio Pounce Light, which consists of just two developers, released their debut game, Tiny Glade, on Steam. It is a castle-building simulator set on lawns. The project had an excellent start.

Cubic Games Studio has shared the latest metrics for the free-to-play shooter Pixel Gun 3D. We now know how many people have downloaded the game across different platforms and how much revenue it has generated.

The mobile version of Dungeon & Fighter has surpassed the one billion dollar revenue mark, reports the analytics company Sensor Tower. The game earned 82% of this amount in China, where it was released in May 2024.

The US actors’ guild SAG-AFTRA has decided to boycott the game League of Legends. They are dissatisfied with the actions of Formosa Interactive, a company assisting Riot Games with the title’s voice-over work.

It took Ghost of Tsushima just over four years since its release to sell 13 million copies. The developers from Sucker Punch Studios shared this information with The New York Times.

The founders of Rockbite Games, Avetis Zakharyan and Gevorg Kopalyan, shared their success story with App2Top.

Airship Syndicate has joined the long list of gaming companies that have undergone layoffs. It parted ways with 16 employees.

On October 15-16, a conference titled “Gaming Industry” will take place in Moscow. A large-scale indie project exhibition will be held as part of the event. Currently, organizers are accepting applications from teams with game prototypes and demos.

DON’T NOD reported its performance for the first six months of 2024. The first half of the year was not very favorable for the French company, leading it to revise some of its plans.

Red Hook Studios, the developer of the Darkest Dungeon series, has become a subsidiary of Behaviour Interactive.

The football simulator EA Sports FC 25 is gearing up for release—the game is already available for owners of premium editions, and for everyone else, it will be released on September 27. As a result, it has significantly improved its position on the Steam top-grossing products chart, pushing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 from the top spot.

The studio Shift Up has encountered issues due to the game title Stellar Blade. The American film company Stellarblade has initiated legal proceedings against it. Sony, the corporation that published the game, has also received a lawsuit.

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has instructed the government to allocate funds from the federal budget aimed at supporting Russian game developers. This initiative is undertaken “for the purpose of developing creative industries” in the country.

The upcoming intimate industry event by WN Media Group has been announced. It will be held next week in Helsinki. Among the participants are representatives from Metacore, Liftoff, AppFollow, Raptor PR, and many other companies connected with the gaming business.

Last War: Survival is a mobile strategy game set in a zombie apocalypse, developed by the Singaporean company First Fun. The game was released in July 2023. According to estimates by the analytics company Sensor Tower, since then, Last War: Survival has generated over $900 million.

Tim Willits shared this information in an interview with IGN. He mentioned that such an audience can currently be boasted by another hit from Saber Interactive — the zombie shooter World War Z.

On the morning of September 23, the stock price of the Polish publisher and developer 11 bit studios sharply declined. The reason was the less than successful, in the opinion of investors, launch of the city-building survival game Frostpunk 2.

Three months ago, a group of Russian deputies drafted a bill to ban the sale of smartphones and tablets in Russia without access to the RuStore app store. Their initiative is primarily aimed at Apple devices. According to TASS, the government recently approved this idea.

According to media reports, the development of Concord cost $400 million, IGN uncovered the reasons for the departure of the entire Annapurna Interactive team, and for the first time, the number of concurrent Steam users exceeded 38 million. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.