The Chinese company NetEase also reported for the first quarter of 2024. Below are the key points from the report.

The free-to-play shooter XDefiant by Ubisoft is showing good results, claims Tom Henderson.

11 bit studios reported in their quarterly report that they are satisfied with the initial sales of INDIKA.

Polish 11 bit studios reported for the first quarter of 2024. It earned more than analysts expected but did not avoid losses.

The British authorities followed the footsteps of the European Union and approved a bill aimed at making the digital platforms market more competitive. This bill specifically targets Apple and its App Store.

On May 9, solo developer mino_dev released the action-roguelike Rabbit and Steel on Steam. In a conversation with GameDiscoverCo, he shared the game’s performance metrics.

The Swedish holding company Fragbite Group has filed for bankruptcy for the studio Fall Damage. They reported that the developers are in a dire financial situation as they were unable to find a publisher for the free-to-play shooter Alara Prime.

The company “ROSA” wants to create a domestic gaming console and software for it, sources from the newspaper “Izvestia” claim. According to their information, it is working on a portable console in the spirit of the Steam Deck.

Based on the results of 2023, only one hyper-casual novelty made it into the top 50 most downloaded mobile games, reports the analytical service AppMagic. This is Burger Please!, published by the South Korean company Supercent. Representatives of Supercent shared with AppMagic what they are doing to promote the game.

Hardly anyone writes or talks about the genre of mobile games called “color-by-numbers” (coloring, paint by number). Even so, games in this genre collectively generate about 30 million installs per month. What is happening in this niche and is it worth entering? We discussed this with Beresnev Games, ZiMAD, and Belka Games.

On the evening of May 22, Street Fighter 6 was close to breaking its record for concurrent players on Steam. The fighting game was played by 70,202 users simultaneously. This was only 371 players fewer than the peak achieved right after its release.

Johan Ekström will resign from his position as CFO of Embracer Group on September 1, 2024. This was announced by Embracer Group in its latest annual report.

Embracer Group published its financial report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. Here are the key points.

There are changes in the guide of the development studio Helldivers 2. Johan Pilestedt, who held the position of CEO, stepped down.

Rush Royale continues to increase its revenue. MY.GAMES announced that the game recently reached another significant milestone.

Developing internal tools for creating and managing mobile games is costly for companies, reports the technology platform Metaplay. This conclusion was reached after surveying 125 top managers from large American mobile studios.

It is possible that Sony has decided to launch a mobile store. The information was found by the TweakTown portal in the description of one of the new vacancies at PlayStation Studios Mobile.

Game developers from Russia have yet to present a worthy alternative to international gaming companies, stated Alexey Goreslavsky, General Director of the Internet Development Institute (IRI), at the “MediaSib-2024” forum.

Thanks to the Fallout series, Bethesda might earn tens of millions of dollars by autumn, according to a report from VG Insights. Analysts have estimated the potential revenue for the company from the games Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, as well as the TV show itself, for the period from April to September 2024.