The Game Pass audience can exceed 30 million people. This figure was indicated in the LinkedIn account by Craig McNary, senior director of Xbox brand marketing.

On September 14, an early release of Mortal Kombat 1 took place: the fighting game became available to owners of premium editions. In the first hours, the peak online Steam version of the game reached 26,633 people.

Against the background of changes in Unity’s pricing policy, a number of gaming companies have decided to disable the monetization of Unity Ads and ironSource in all their games. They demand to cancel the new installation fee. Among the signatories of the appeal are Azur Games, Voodoo and many others.

Nekki has abandoned the Unity engine. Its founder Dmitry Terekhin wrote on LinkedIn that the Spine action already in development will now be made on Unreal Engine.

Ubisoft is preparing to dissolve a London studio dealing with mobile games. Now it employs 54 people.

On September 15, 2021, the Polish indie studio Mechanics released Timberborn for early access. This is an urban planning strategy about the survival of intelligent beavers in a world in which humanity no longer exists. Since then, gamers have bought the game more than a million times.

Square Enix has announced that it has sold over 7 million copies of the Final Fantasy VII remake since April 2020. This figure takes into account both physical shipments and digital sales.

Ascendant Studios, which developed the magical shooter Immortals of Aveum, conducted large-scale cuts. She fired almost half of the employees.

The media reported that those gaming companies that will start using the Unity LevelPlay Mediation advertising platform will not have to pay a fee from each download.

Visual Concepts studio, owned by Take-Two, has laid off some of its employees. It is unknown how many people lost their jobs.

American consulting company Bain & The company conducted a study on the use of generative AI in game development. To do this, she interviewed 25 top managers from gaming companies from around the world.

On Reddit, we noticed that over the past year and a half, Unity has greatly changed the approach to working with the engine license. A user under the nickname Darkfrost wrote a post in which he talked about noticeable changes.

After the change in Unity monetization, many developers announced plans to move to another platform. Godot project manager Remi Verschelde, amid increased interest in the engine, warned that such a decision should not be hasty.

On September 12, the Godot open engine team officially announced the launch of the Godot Development Fund. She will collect donations through him for the development of the engine.

Respawn has lost the head of development of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Stig Asmussen quit the studio after nine and a half years of work.

Many developers have spoken sharply about Unity’s new pricing policy. One of them was Dmitry Terekhin, the founder of Nekki.

In Russia, the “Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games” or abbreviated “R.A.D.I. Video Games” has officially started. Yasha Haddazhi, the former head of the Russian division of Nintendo, became the president of the organization.

The sources of the AppMetrica analytical service appeared on GitHub. Yandex has published the code under the MIT license, which allows you to use the service in projects without restrictions. Developers only need to specify the license text in their project.