Last week, the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 announced the launch of a studio in Warsaw that will assist other offices with the development of two ambitious RPGs. During an investor presentation, CD PROJEKT’s COO Piotr Karwowski said there was no problem with this.

The Polish company People Can Fly reported its first-quarter results for 2024. They announced a sharp increase in revenue.

In the spring of 2018, the Chinese company Lilith Games released the mobile 4X strategy game Rise of Kingdoms. The analytics service Sensor Tower calculated that since then, the game has earned over $3.5 billion worldwide.

Publisher Hooded Horse discussed Manor Lords sales with the GameDiscoverCo service. During the conversation, the company shared how many copies of the game were sold in different countries.

The weekly Steam sales chart sees plenty of changes. For example, one of the biggest hits of 2024, Helldivers 2, has dropped out of the overall top for the first time since its release in February, landing in 13th place this time.

Capcom announced that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has been purchased 3 million times. The game reached this milestone a little over two months after its release: it was launched on March 22.

The MY.GAMES brand has turned five years old. In honor of its anniversary, the company shared various statistics. Some figures were previously disclosed in reports dedicated to MY.GAMES titles, so we’ve included the remaining data.

The development of Star Citizen is ongoing, along with the game’s crowdfunding campaign. The amount of funds raised for the creation of the space simulator has already reached $701.08 million.

On May 27, a new “Prince of Persia” spin-off, the roguelite game The Rogue Prince of Persia by the co-authors of Dead Cells from Evil Empire studio, was released in early access on Steam. The game had a weak start.

The developer studio Lavapotion reported the sales results of their fantasy strategy game, Songs of Conquest. They have surpassed the threshold of 500,000 copies.

On May 22, 2024, the Chinese company Kuro Games released the role-playing gacha game Wuthering Waves on PC and smartphones. We referred to data from the AppMagic service and took a look at the initial results of the mobile version of the project.

Users of RuStore have started spending significantly more on games, reported Oleg Afanasyev, the Product Director of RuStore, during the “Russian Internet Forum 2024”.

At the Digital Dragons conference, Larian Studios head Swen Vincke acknowledged that while creating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s staff sometimes had to work overtime. However, the crunch was significantly less compared to the work on previous games.

Spending by Russians on consoles continues to grow, according to the retail network “M.Video-Eldorado.” In the first quarter of 2024, it increased by 104% year-on-year to 12.5 billion rubles.

The analytical service AppMagic calculated that mobile gamers worldwide have spent over $3 billion on games from the Turkish company Dream Games. 99% of the spending was on Royal Match, with less than 1% on the soft-launched Royal Kingdom.

In the first quarter of 2024, Android users from Russia encountered malware disguised as games twice as often as during the same period last year. These data were disclosed by “Kaspersky Lab” in an interview with the newspaper “Vedomosti”.

Bungie won a lawsuit against cheat sellers for Destiny 2, Activision is being sued over a school shooting in the US, and rumors suggest 2K has obtained a license to develop games under the FIFA brand — here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Abiotic Factor — a science fiction survival game inspired by Half-Life. In an interview with PC Gamer, the founder of Deep Field Games, Geoff Keene, mentioned that the game surpassed 300,000 copies sold in less than a month: it was released in early access on Steam on May 2.

Analysts at Famitsu calculated that Nintendo Switch sales in Japan exceeded 32.9 million units. This allowed the portable console to set a new sales record in the country.