Insomniac Games studio had a massive leak: on the night of December 19, hackers posted more than 1.3 million internal files of the studio online. In the merged archive, in particular, there are financial documents with information about the cost of developing a number of games.

MY.GAMES has published the latest data on Rush Royale downloads and revenue. She also said that, according to the estimates of the analytical platform data.ai Rush Royale is now the most successful mobile game in the Tower Defense genre.

The Defold Foundation has announced that it will no longer charge console game developers for full access to the source code of the Defold engine.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 with gaming (or related to the gaming industry) teams. Next up is an interview with Kirill and Roman Gursky, managing directors of the gaming business of the GEM Capital investment group.

There have been cuts in 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks, Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $54 million in a lawsuit for discrimination against women, according to rumors, Bobby Kotick tried to buy Paramount Global, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Actually, this is not news. Information about such a budget has already been passed, but we, for example, missed it. We are correcting ourselves.

We continue to summarize the results of the year with the game teams. Next up is an interview with Oleg Beresnev, founder and CEO of Beresnev Games.

Streaming service Netflix has reported on the gaming results of this year and shared plans for the next one. He has no ambitions for the segment.

According to the analytical company Ampere Analysis, at the end of November, console sales of Alan Wake 2 reached 850 thousand copies.

Layoffs are related to the company’s low sales.

The Irish startup W4 Games, founded by Godot veterans, recently announced a Series A funding round. As part of it, the studio will receive a transfer of $15 million from a group of investors.

The Irish startup W4 Games, founded by Godot veterans, recently announced a Series A funding round. As part of it, the studio will receive a transfer of $15 million from a group of investors.

It took the game a little over a year and a half to achieve this figure. The project was released in March 2022.

Lesta Games has announced the launch of a “platform for hosting games.” It is called B.A.S.E. It is assumed that in the future the platform will be able to offer players a large-scale catalog of online PC games.

This was stated by the former marketing director of Pixel Federation and SuperScale Matej Lancaric. He believes that Scopely spends up to $4.5 million per day on user purchases.

The Minetest game engine/platform has a new version. There are few innovations. The main task of the updated version is to draw users’ attention to the game library.

The new role-playing game from Owlcat Games studio may turn out to be one of the most moneyed releases in December. The project started from the fifth place of the top Steam bestsellers, taking into account free projects and Steam Deck. If you do not take them into account, then the game is in second place in terms of earnings per week, second only to the cooperative indie hit Lethal Company.

We continue to summarize the results of 2023 together with the game teams. Next up is an interview with Ilya Boytsov, co-founder and CEO of the MidHard Games outsourcing studio.

Immediately after the news of the closure of Fntastic studio, which developed The Day Before, the game was withdrawn from sale. Most likely, it was done by the publisher, MYTONA company.