On July 13, Tencent released Arena Breakout, a mobile loot shooter in the spirit of Escape from Tarkov. It is reported that the number of registered users in the game recently exceeded 80 million people.

BioWare has fired screenwriter Lukas Kristjanson. He was one of the oldest studio employees who worked on the first Baldur’s Gate.

The novelty from Larian Studios has become an event on Twitch. The team of the streaming platform reported that Twitch users spent 41 million hours watching broadcasts on Baldur’s Gate 3.

Cloud Imperium Games continues to raise money for the Star Citizen space simulator. According to the latest data, the fees of the game have reached $ 600 million.

NetEase has published a financial report for the second quarter of 2023, which ended on June 30. We look at the company’s indicators.

Supercell has stopped developing another game. She announced the closure of Floodrush three months after the launch of limited beta testing.

On the night of August 24-25, the Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon mecha-action was released. According to the SteamDB service, 129 285 Steam users played the title at the same time on the premiere day.

The popularity of Elden Ring will help Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon sell well, Bandai Namco is sure. The company expects that the mecha-action will attract a lot more players than the previous parts of the series.

On August 23, Revolution Software announced a remaster of the quest Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, released in 1996. In an interview with Polygon, the head of the studio and the creator of the series, Charles Cecil, said that the studio would not have taken up the development of an updated version of the game if it had not had the opportunity to use neural networks.

Studio Vela Games, founded by immigrants from Electronic Arts and Riot Games, also held layoffs. As the Irish Examiner writes with reference to the Financial Services Union, there are less than 20 people left in the studio.

Among those who fell under the reduction in BioWare was Mary Kirby, a screenwriter who has worked in the studio since 2006.

A London court ruled that 18-year-old hacker Arion Kurtaj was involved in hacking the internal network of Rockstar Games and leaking fragments of GTA VI. The hacker attack was carried out in September 2022.

On August 23, BioWare CEO Gary McKay announced the reorganization of the studio. As part of it, 50 people will leave BioWare.

Epic Games Store is preparing to launch the Epic First Run program. As part of it, the store will stop charging commission on sales of exclusive games, but only for the first six months after the release.

The European gaming market continues to grow, according to the report of the organization Video Games Europe (formerly ISFE). According to her, last year the market revenue increased by 5% to €24.5 billion.

RuStore refuses to publish only 7% of applications, the stora team claims. These are usually projects with controversial or low-quality content.

The initial sales of the action RPG Atlas Fallen were below forecasts, according to Focus Entertainment. Focusing on the “good quality” of the game, the company expected better results.

Microsoft used rumors about its plans to close the deal with Activision Blizzard without the approval of the British regulator to force the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to sue it in a hurry. This is reported by Bloomberg.