The British publisher and developer Frontier Developments is going to reduce the staff. The company decided to revise its business strategy due to financial problems and the difficult situation in the gaming industry.

Just yesterday, Pete Hines, the head of the company’s publishing division, announced his departure from Bethesda. Shortly after, it became known that Bethesda also left the design director William Shen (William Shen).

Apple has made a relaxation for Russian developers. The corporation announced that now they can leave links in their applications that allow you to pay for purchases not through the App Store payment system.

Epic Games has introduced a new program to attract games to the Epic Games Store — Now on Epic. It is intended for developers and publishers who decide to place projects already available in third-party PC stores or subscription services in the Epic Games Store.

Soulslike Lies of P has sold over a million copies, according to studio Neowiz. It took a little less than a month to reach this mark: the game was released on September 18.

In January-June 2023, 133.9 thousand legally imported game discs were sold in Russia, the Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games calculated at the request of RBC. This is four times less than in 2022.

The American Entertainment Software Association decided to find out what motivates people to play video games. To do this, she, in cooperation with gaming associations from other regions, interviewed 12.8 thousand gamers from 12 countries.

Minecraft has a new achievement. During the presentation of Minecraft Live 2023, Mojang Studio announced that sales of the game exceeded 300 million copies.

Recently, Bloomberg sources reported that the deputy heads of Disney Bob Iger (Bob Iger) offered to buy a major publisher. For example, Electronic Arts (EA). Forbes journalists in a new article shared their opinion on why a deal between Disney and EA is a bad idea.

Generative AI For Business, a conference on working with neural networks and artificial intelligence, will be held in San Francisco on October 23. Among the speakers are leads Scenario.com , Luma AI, Layer AI, MongoDB, Lightspeed and many other companies.

The Swedish Fragbite Group has announced the purchase of the Fall Damage studio. The size of the transaction was 20 million Swedish kronor ($1.8 million).

The head of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, will continue to lead the company. He will be its CEO at least until the end of 2023.

The most expensive takeover in the history of the gaming industry has ended. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard 20 months after the deal was announced.

On October 12, the gaming press began publishing soulslike reviews of Lords of the Fallen. The game received mixed reviews. Against this background, the shares of CI Games, the company that published the game, fell by 18% in a day, according to Reuters.

At the end of 2021, mobile games appeared in the Netflix catalog. According to MobileGamer with reference to the data of the AppMagic service, to date they have been downloaded a total of 82 million times.

AppLovin could be interested in buying Unity again after the scandal over the Runtime Fee and the departure of Unity CEO John Riccitiello. Citibank analysts think so.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency finally came to the conclusion that the takeover will not harm competition in the cloud gaming market.

Total user spending in Scopely mobile games has exceeded $7.6 billion, according to AppMagic analysts.