Composer Michael Salvatori (Micheal Salvatori) could fall under the wave of layoffs at Bungie. He has collaborated with the studio for more than 25 years.

The guest of the new episode of the Games and Names podcast was Thomas Kriebernegg, co-founder of the page optimization service in App Radar app stores.

Atari has agreed to purchase the American studio Digital Eclipse, which is engaged in preserving the game history. The maximum size of the transaction will be $20 million.

Remedy Entertainment has released a financial report for the third quarter of 2023. In it, the company told how the development of games is progressing.

miHoYo shared the new results of the company’s “rights protection operation”. She announced that the police in China had taken into custody 16 people involved in the creation and maintenance of private servers for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Their servers were shut down.

Survival about survival in the jungle Green Hell has sold over 5 million copies. This was announced by the Polish studio Creepy Jar.

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons wrote on X (former Twitter) that his studio had indeed cut some of its employees. He stated that this is a sad day for Bungie.

The fact that the Sony-owned Bungie game studio will be affected by a wave of layoffs was reported by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

This year may be one game blockbuster richer. The open beta of the cooperative shooter The Finals attracted an audience of 267 thousand people on Steam. This is almost four times more than I was able to collect at the peak on the Overwatch 2 platform.

On October 23, the Generative AI For Business SF’23 business conference was held in San Francisco, dedicated to trends in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Its guests were representatives of companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Scenario, Confident AI, Layer.ai and NetEase.

No Man’s Sky brings Hello Games tens of millions of dollars a year. Reddit users discovered the company’s report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022. It says that last year the revenue of Hello Games was £39.7 million, or approximately $48.1 million at the current exchange rate.

Many American advertisers abandoned the Unity advertising network after the company introduced a new pricing policy on September 12. According to Sensor Tower analysts, in the week from September 11 to 17, their number in the Unity network decreased by 15%.

The horror shooter Quantum Error paid off even before the release. TeamKill Media studio announced that the game had recaptured all development costs by October 28.

GDEV (formerly Nexters) has announced the global release of its new farm simulator game Island Hoppers. The project, which was previously called Island Questaway, began to earn well even before the full release.

Remedy Entertainment investors reacted well to the release of Alan Wake II. On the morning of October 27, the studio’s shares were trading 23.5% more expensive than the day before — at a price of €29.4 apiece.

Russian studios that make games on Unity, Unreal Engine and other full-cycle foreign engines may be allowed to apply for inclusion of their projects in the register of domestic software. This proposal was made by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Kommersant reports.

At the beginning of the week, the creator of the God of War series, David Jaffe, citing sources, said that Connie Booth, one of the iconic figures of the gaming division, had left Sony. Now a Sony representative in a comment to Axios confirmed that Booth no longer works for the company.

On the evening of October 26, Ubisoft published a report for the first half of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30. She reported an increase in most key indicators.