Another game from Japan successfully launched in 2024. Now it is a role-playing anime action game Granblue Fantasy: Relink, developed and published by Cygames.

The cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 interrupted Palworld’s three-week lead in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. In the week from February 6 to 13, he got the first place in the chart — this is taking into account both premium games and free titles.

The magic shooter Immortals of Aveum, which failed in sales, had a very large budget, according to a former employee of Ascendant Studios. He shared his figures in a conversation with IGN.

Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to take a new achievement. The number of reviews of the game on Steam has exceeded half a million, which is more than Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Konami announced this on the Japanese account of the Silent Hill series in X.

At the end of January, Apple announced a number of innovations in iOS. These include support for third—party stores and payment systems. However, those who want to use the new functionality will have to pay for each installation. We talked about the innovation with experts from Skich and INFUSION GAMES.

The 80 Level portal asked more than a thousand gaming specialists about the level of their annual salaries, and also studied the relevant data from analytical companies. He found out how much developers earn in different countries and whether they have enough money for a comfortable life.

What is the difference between an indie approach to game development and a business one, – Alexander Myasishchev, director of Nau Engine, told in his column for App2Top.

In the second half of 2023, IT specialists in Russia earned less than at the beginning of the year. According to Habr Career estimates, the median salary fell the most among game developers — by 28% to 128 thousand rubles.

Sales of Helldivers 2 exceeded one million copies, the developers of DC Universe Online were cut, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The Helldivers 2 co-op shooter has set a record for peak online play on Steam among Sony games. According to SteamDB, on the debut day, the Steam version of the title attracted 81,840 simultaneous players.

Take-Two Interactive also reported for the third fiscal quarter, which lasted from October to December 2023.

Last night, Ubisoft published a report for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2023. We have chosen the main thing.

On February 7, Disney announced that it had invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games. According to sources of The Information, she bought a stake in the company with an aggregate valuation of Epic Games at $22.5 billion.

Microsoft Corporation has responded to a complaint from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about layoffs in its gaming division, a significant part of which falls on Activision Blizzard. She said that Activision Blizzard was already preparing to cut staff.

The Acquire studio, which together with Square Enix developed the Octopath Traveler series of games, became part of the Japanese Kadokawa holding. The holding company announced the transaction in its latest financial report.

The mobile game Tanks Blitz has shown good results in RuStore. According to a press release from the RuStore team, users of the Russian app store spent 100 million rubles in the game Lesta Games in less than three months: it was released on the site on November 16, 2023.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked the appeals court to look into the situation with mass layoffs at Microsoft. On January 25, the corporation announced its decision to lay off 1,900 people from Xbox, Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Media.

The release of Persona 3 Reload was a great success for Atlus. The company announced that the remake of the third part of Persona turned out to be the fastest-selling game in its history.