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News March 28

SEGA laid off 240 people and parted ways with Relic Entertainment

SEGA continues to restructure. As part of it, the company sold Relic Entertainment, best known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Age of Empires IV and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

News March 28

DON’T NOD Annual Report: Revenue reached record levels, restructuring started

The French company DON’T NOD has released a preliminary financial report for 2023. We share the main thing from it.

News March 28

Take-Two Interactive buys Gearbox Entertainment for $460 million

The Swedish Embracer Group holding has indeed decided to sell Gearbox Entertainment, best known for the Borderlands series of games. He entered into a sales agreement with Take-Two Interactive. The amount of the transaction is 4.9 billion Swedish kronor or $ 460 million.

News March 27

Newzoo: Helldivers 2 is the highest-grossing premium PC and PS5 game by the end of February

The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 in February. We share the main conclusions from the report.

News March 27

FromSoftware employees will be given stock options for the studio

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation is making a generous gesture. She is going to distribute promotional options worth 5.3 billion yen, or about $35 million at the current exchange rate, to employees of her subsidiary studio FromSoftware.

News March 27

Putin instructed to organize the production of consoles in Russia and create a cloud platform with games

This instruction was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the government following a meeting on the socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad region.

News March 27

Phil Spencer: the gaming industry is stagnating, the growth of game budgets is dangerous for exclusives, EGS and other stores may appear on Xbox

Polygon journalists talked with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer about what is happening in the gaming industry and the future of Microsoft’s gaming business. We have collected the main points from the interview.

News March 27

Last year, the number of Godot engine users doubled in a month amid the Unity monetization scandal

This was told by one of Godot programmers Adam Scott in an interview with journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File.

News March 26

“The gaming industry deserves to die”: former Dragon Age screenwriter

A few years ago, one of the most discussed issues in the gaming industry was massive recycling. In a conversation with PC Gamer, David Gaider, who in the past was responsible for the scripts of the Dragon Age series games, touched on this topic and stated that the industry still needs to deal with crunches.

News March 26

Dragon’s Dogma 2 surpassed Helldivers 2 in weekly sales on Steam

The role-playing action game Dragon’s Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom’s novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games – Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.

News March 26

Media: publishers doubt the need to release games on Xbox consoles

Microsoft has “big problems” with retaining publishers on Xbox consoles, according to journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry.biz . According to him, some large gaming companies do not see prospects for Xbox support.

Investor/publisher wanted March 26

The indie Dieselduck team is looking for a publisher and investor for the airship captain simulator “Nephelia: Through the Clouds”

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from the Russian indie studio Dieselduck, which is developing a game about traveling on the airship “Nephelia: Through the Clouds“.

News March 22

The creator of Resident Evil has founded his own studio

The network noticed that game designer Shinji Mikami has opened a studio called Kamuy. Information about this appeared on the official website of Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered.

News March 22

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a negative rating on Steam: it is scolded for microtransactions and the inability to start a new game

On the night of March 22, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam and consoles. The game instantly garnered thousands of angry reviews.

News March 22

“Respect game developers”: the head of Larian Studios appealed to “greedy” publishers amid layoffs in the industry

The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.

News March 21

GDEV has published a financial report for 2023. The publisher of Hero Wars earned $ 465 million

GDEV gaming company (formerly Nexters) has summarized the unaudited financial results of both the fourth quarter and the entire 2023. We share the main thing from the report.

News March 21

Helldivers 2 is the best—selling game of February in the USA. Skull and Bones came in fourth place

The analytical company Circana has prepared a report on the state of the American gaming market for February 2024. Below are the main conclusions.

News March 21

Media: from data.ai almost half of the employees were fired after the deal with Sensor Tower

At the beginning of the week, Sensor Tower announced the purchase of an analytical company data.ai . It became known that after the deal data.ai She cut about 200 employees.

Technologies March 21

Unreal Engine 5.4, new editor features in Fortnite and mobile store — the main thing from Epic Games’ performance at GDC

Epic Games held a presentation of State of Unreal at the GDC 2024 developer Conference. During it, the company demonstrated the capabilities of the next version of the Unreal Engine and shared a number of news on the development of Fortnite and its business in general. We have collected the most important announcements.

Round table March 21

Round table: the specifics of the visual novel market for the Web

The visual novel market is diverse. There are applications with storefronts, there is a large segment of horror and no less large — short stories “for adults”. But within the framework of the current round table, we decided to dive into such a niche as visual novels for web platforms. Our experts and guides in this niche were representatives of Dats Games, Arcanum Games and Yandex Games.

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