Last week marked the beginning of the autumn sale on Steam, significantly altering the landscape of the platform’s top-grossing products chart. Here’s what we observed.

The head of President Studio, Karol Konieczko, announced that Crime Scene Cleaner has surpassed 500,000 copies sold. It took the game less than four months to achieve this milestone.

Gamers spend a lot of time watching gaming video content on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. On average, they watch videos for 8.5 hours weekly, according to a study by MIDiA Research.

SayGames has completely ceased its operations in Belarus. The portal deb.by observed in the “Kartoteka” database that on November 14, 2024, the mobile publisher finalized the liquidation process of LLC “Kazigulni”—its Belarusian legal entity.

At the end of November, the largest city in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, hosted the WN Summit. Here are the highlights.

The company NetEase has laid off some employees, according to Chinese media reports. The layoffs reportedly took place at the Shenzhen office and primarily affected developers who were working on the mobile shooter Operation Apocalypse (天启行动).

A law will come into effect in Vietnam that controls the information disseminated on the Internet, including its impact on the video game market. This was reported by the analytical company Niko Partners.

The American company Motorsport Games announced that as of December 31, 2024, sales of several of its games will cease. It will remove all its NASCAR-branded projects and DLC from the shelves of digital stores.

Throughout 2024, gaming companies worldwide actively reduced their workforce. November was no exception. According to estimates by Game Industry Layoffs, last month 838 gaming specialists lost their jobs.

The Chinese giant Tencent has made a new deal, acquiring 37% of the shares from Hero Entertainment in the Chinese studio Kuro Games, known for the role-playing gacha game Wuthering Waves.

Fortnite set a new record for the number of concurrent viewers at an in-game concert, Garry’s Mod has been purchased over 25.5 million times, and Marvel’s Spider-Man may have earned $3.8 billion — here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

This figure was announced by the Deputy Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), Andrey Voronkov, during a panel discussion at the “RED EXPO” conference. This is 27.4% more than the current year.

The analytics service AppMagic compiled a list of mobile casual game publishers that earned the most from IAP* from January to November 2024. Scopely took the top spot in the ranking.

The studio Mintrocket announced that their underwater culinary adventure, Dave the Diver, has surpassed 5 million copies sold worldwide.

According to the BBC, only two out of the 26 top-grossing games with loot boxes on Google Play clearly indicate the presence of this mechanic in their British advertisements. The others remain silent about the loot boxes, thereby violating the UK’s advertising regulator requirements.

Microsoft plans to integrate several key features into the Xbox App for Android users in the United States. Gamers will be able to purchase games directly through the mobile app, bypassing Google Play, and launch them via streaming.

A new development has emerged in the investigation of Steam’s alleged monopoly on the PC store market. The court has converted the lawsuit from Wolfire Games and Dark Catt Studios against Valve into a class action suit. This means that many other developers can now join the case.

A month ago, Russian gaming companies began adding new labels to their games as part of an experiment — warning of the presence of violence, smoking scenes, in-game purchases, and various other content. Several hundred developers implemented this on the VK Play platform alone.

Over the past six months, the creators of Star Citizen have raised an additional $50 million through a crowdfunding campaign. As a result, by the morning of November 29, the total funds collected for the game’s development reached $751.3 million. However, reports suggest that all is not well at Cloud Imperium Games.