Take-Two Interactive has decided to sell bonds for a significant amount. It plans to raise $600 million from the sale of securities for “general corporate purposes.”

Following the news about the construction of an IT-city in Dagestan, there was an announcement about the upcoming launch of a video game and animation cluster in Moscow. The cluster will open in the Skolkovo Innovation Center next year.

We continue our series of publications in the category where professionals from gaming companies talk about their careers. The new article in the series is about the work of a 3D artist. Alexey Konzelko, the lead 3D artist at 1C Game Studios, shared what his job entails. [done]

Recently, the creators of Black Myth: Wukong opened pre-orders for the game, and Steam users immediately began placing orders en masse. As a result, for the week of June 4 to June 11, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King climbed to the top of the sales chart, surpassing the portable PC Steam Deck and free-to-play hits like Counter-Strike 2 and Destiny 2.

The organizers of the WN Conference have announced the extension of their collaboration with ChinaJoy, one of the world’s largest gaming expos, for this year.

Capcom announced that Resident Evil Village has surpassed 10 million copies sold faster than any other game in the franchise.

At the Summer Game Fest 2024 presentation, one of the trailers shown was for Squad Busters, Supercell’s new mobile game. In a conversation with GamesIndustry, Supercell’s Head of Marketing Rob Lowe stated that mobile games should be just as integral to such shows as console and PC games.

Playtika is ceasing operations in Belarus. At the end of April, it began the liquidation of the Belarusian legal entity ‘Playtika Bel.’ The portal dev.by discovered this information in the country’s unified state register.

In a month, with the support of App2Top, a business conference titled “Gaming Industry” (GIC) will debut in Russia’s northern capital. Among the participants are Cyberia Nova, HeroCraft, “K-D Lab Association”, Overmobile, and others.

Among the most popular games on Steam, Banana—a free clicker game where you need to click on a picture of a banana—has burst onto the scene. According to SteamDB, on June 10, Banana’s online presence on Valve’s platform reached a record 220,621 users.

The gaming company Geeky House and the Dagestan authorities have officially agreed to create a city-cluster in the region for the development of the IT sector in general, and the gaming industry in particular. They signed the corresponding agreement at SPIEF 2024.

In an interview with IGN, head of Microsoft’s gaming division Phil Spencer commented for the first time on the recent closure of four Bethesda studios, including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin.

On June 6, the Polish studio Live Motion Games and publisher Frozen Way released a simulator in Steam that deals with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster — Chornobyl Liquidators. According to Frozen Way’s CEO Mateusz Jeleń, the game failed to meet the expectations placed upon it.

Head of Microsoft’s gaming division Phil Spencer gave an interview to the IGM portal. During the conversation, he mentioned that sales of third-party studio games on Xbox consoles are steadily increasing.

The creators of Among Us have launched a fund to support indie developers, MY.GAMES has introduced a new publishing label, and the success of Gray Zone Warfare has saved its developers from bankruptcy. Here’s a recap of what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Apple has announced the winners of the 2024 Apple Design Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in mobile app and game design. Below are the winners in the games category.

The Japanese company Gumi, specializing in mobile games and known in the West for Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, intends to part ways with 80 employees. It has decided to downsize in light of growing losses.

Ghost of Tsushima is Sony’s latest game on PC. It was released on Steam and Epic Games Store on May 16, 2024, almost four years after its console release on PlayStation. The VG Insights service studied the game’s performance on Steam.

Since 2020, Sony has released 14 PlayStation exclusives on Steam. In total, they have generated $830 million for the company, according to a report from VG Insights.