The Seattle court rejected the lawsuit of the South Korean publisher Nexon, filed against the Ironmace studio in April 2023. The company accused the developers of the PvPvE action Dark and Darker of stealing the code and assets of the unreleased P3 shooter.

The Chinese company NetEase has announced the opening of a studio in the USA — T-Minus Zero Entertainment. The new team was headed by an industry veteran with 26 years of experience, Rich Vogel.

In the GameDiscoverCo newsletter, Simon Carless also listed games on PlayStation and Xbox consoles that had the largest daily active audience (DAU) as of August 11. Here are these lists.

Gaming expert Simon Carless found out what percentage of the daily audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam accounts for the top games on these platforms. He told about this in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

The developers of the platformer puzzle HUMANITY have sold more than a million copies of the game. It took the project three months to overcome the first millionth mark.

In June 2022, Epic Games released a free set of tools within Epic Online Services, which allowed developers to implement crossplay in PC games. Now the company has added support for console games to it.

The Government of the Russian Federation should prepare proposals to promote the games developed in Russia and the domestic software used in them in the BRICS countries and other foreign markets. This instruction was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin following a visit to the exhibition “Development of the Creative Economy in Russia”.

Swedish Embracer Group has published a report for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30. The company reported that the quarter’s results exceeded its expectations.

This August, the total user spending on Melsoft Games mobile games for the entire time of the company’s operation reached the billion dollar mark. This is reported by the analytical platform AppMagic.

In an interview with the Taiwanese YouTube channel, Naoki Yoshida, producer of Final Fantasy XVI, admitted that he did not like the abundance of competing consoles on the market too much. In his opinion, it would be easier if there was a single platform.

The number of registered users in the War Robots team action has surpassed the 250 million mark. This was announced by the company MY.GAMES.

The Chinese holding company Tencent has published a report for the second quarter of 2023, which ended on June 30. The company earned less than analysts expected.

Haveli Investments has invested in Candivore, an Israeli mobile studio that developed the Match Masters puzzle. She became a minority shareholder, paying $100 million for a share in the studio.

On May 30, the premiere of the animated film “Spider-Man: The Web of Universes” took place. After its release, many more people began to play games in Marvel’s Spider-Man series, according to the analytical company Ampere Analysis.

Larian Studios has corrected the titles of Baldur’s Gate 3. She added localizers from the Altagram Group outsourcing studio, who complained a week ago that only team leaders got into the credits.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has seriously captivated gamers from the United States, according to analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. According to him, at the end of last week, Americans spent an average of over 300 minutes a day in the game.

Singapore-based technology giant Sea has released a report for the second quarter of 2023 (April 1 – June 30). Its gaming division Garena, which developed Free Fire, has again lost revenue.

Since the beginning of the year, many gaming companies have been actively experimenting with artificial intelligence. IO Interactive is not one of them. In an interview with Gamereactor, representatives of the studio said that they adhere to a conservative approach and work on games without AI solutions.

Netflix games go beyond mobile devices. The company has started a beta test of playing games from the “cloud” on TVs.