Microsoft Corporation has responded to a complaint from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about layoffs in its gaming division, a significant part of which falls on Activision Blizzard. She said that Activision Blizzard was already preparing to cut staff.

The Acquire studio, which together with Square Enix developed the Octopath Traveler series of games, became part of the Japanese Kadokawa holding. The holding company announced the transaction in its latest financial report.

The mobile game Tanks Blitz has shown good results in RuStore. According to a press release from the RuStore team, users of the Russian app store spent 100 million rubles in the game Lesta Games in less than three months: it was released on the site on November 16, 2023.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked the appeals court to look into the situation with mass layoffs at Microsoft. On January 25, the corporation announced its decision to lay off 1,900 people from Xbox, Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Media.

The release of Persona 3 Reload was a great success for Atlus. The company announced that the remake of the third part of Persona turned out to be the fastest-selling game in its history.

Disney Corporation announced the purchase of a stake in Epic Games for $ 1.5 billion. Together, the companies want to create a “new universe of games and entertainment” within Fortnite.

Roblox has published its financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year 2023. We have chosen the main thing.

California state laws require companies to inform the authorities about layoffs that take place in local units. Thanks to this, details of the cuts in Activision Blizzard became known.

Forever Skies is the debut game of the Polish studio Far From Home, founded by natives of Techland. The developers announced that it has reached a major new milestone seven and a half months after it was released for early access on Steam.

The first WN Conference of the year will be held in Abu Dhabi on February 15-16. Among its participants are representatives of companies such as Ubisoft, Unity, Leonardo AI, SuperScale, Savvy Games Group and many others. More about the future event is in our material.

Paradox Interactive has summed up the financial results of 2023. Below is the main thing from the report.

On January 31, Konami released Silent Hill: The Short Message is a small horror game in the Silent Hill universe, distributed for free on PlayStation 5. Today, the company announced that it took less than a week for the new product to reach the first million mark in downloads.

App2Top interviewed Roman Gordy, one of the co-founders of the service, discussing the impact of relocation on the gaming industry and the favored destinations among Russian developers.

Nintendo has published a financial report for three quarters, the last of which ended on December 31, 2023. We have chosen the main thing.

Belka Games has decided to wind down its business in Belarus. Portal dev.by I found in the data of the unified state register of the country that at the end of December 2023, the company began the liquidation of Minsk LLC Belka Games.

Playkot Studio announced that downloads of its mobile game in the Spring Valley Expedition genre exceeded 11.58 million.

Meta Corporation* has published its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2023, which ended on December 31. She said that thanks to strong sales of the new Quest 3 VR headset, her Reality Labs division managed to earn a record $1.07 billion.

SEGA has announced that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the fastest-selling game in the series. The new Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has crossed the first millionth milestone in a week since its release on January 25.

What should be understood by LiveOps, what tasks this discipline solves, why it is important not to confuse it with operating a game — the editors of App2Top talked about this and much more with Vadim Bulatov, the author of the course “LiveOps in games“.