The company SuperScale has published a report Good Games Don’t Die, which was prepared by Atomik Research on its order. As part of the survey, analysts spoke with 504 mobile game developers from the UK and the USA.

Torn Away is an adventure game telling about the journey of a ten—year-old girl from Germany home during World War II. Although the game received 96% positive reviews on Steam and 85 out of 100 on Metacritic, its launch turned into a failure.

The authors of the Stable Diffusion neural network have announced the release of Stable Video Diffusion. This is a model that generates videos up to four seconds long based on an image or text description.

Sony failed to annul a class action lawsuit filed by British gamers in August 2022. The UK Competition Court of Appeal ruled that the company must justify its position at the hearing.

The GameMaker team announced that developers who are not going to make money on their games can now not pay for the engine. The only limitation is that the free version of GameMaker cannot be used for console projects.

The company Nacon announced that the release of RoboCop: Rogue City exceeded expectations and became the largest among the games published by it.

The cooperative horror Lethal Company, created by a lone developer Zeekerss, has become a hit on Steam. It took the third place in the chart of the highest-grossing premium products on the site for the last week.

This amount is indicated in the profile of former Fortnite creative director Donald Mustard on the website of AGBO — the production company of directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Anthony, Joe Russo). Mastart left Epic Games in September 2023 and is now listed as an AGBO partner.

This was told by the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, during a hearing in the case of Epic Games and Google due to the removal of Fortnite from Google Play.

Is there a difference between a manager and a manager, which people should not be appointed to the position of a manager, how Western managers differ from Russian—speaking ones – on these and other topics, the editors of App2Top talked with Evgeny Sudak, author of the course “Ethical Management“.

The release of Spirittea has become one of the largest in the history of indie publishing house No More Robots. According to the head of the company Mike Rose, the game paid off on the very first day, and its profit for the debut week was three times higher than the development costs.

nDreams, a British developer and publisher of VR games, has joined Aonic, a gaming conglomerate that owns stakes in OtherSide Entertainment, BKOM Studios and Milky Tea.

The magical shooter Immortals of Aveum became a commercial failure for Ascendant Studios: because of it, the studio had to cut 45% of the staff. In an interview with Windows Central, Ascendant Studios CEO Bret Robbins attributed the poor sales of the game to the poorly chosen time for release.

On July 25, 2023, the Polish Big Cheese Studio released Cooking Simulator in China. The game did not interest Chinese gamers. In a report to investors, the studio said that by November 13, it had managed to sell only 35 copies of the game in the country and earn $349 on them.

The Roblox platform has reached a new milestone. According to the estimates of the analytical service AppMagic, in November, total user spending in the mobile version of Roblox exceeded $ 7 billion. Important: this is the amount before the company pays the fees and taxes.

On October 17, the AppsFlyer MAMA Georgia conference dedicated to mobile analytics and marketing was held in Tbilisi. The other day, the organizers of the event posted recordings of all reports in open access.

Snail, the publisher of ARK: Survival Ascended, announced that the game has passed the milestone of 600 thousand copies sold two weeks after its release in early access.

Such a proposal was announced at a meeting of the working group “Development of high-tech sports in the Russian Federation” under the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports of the State Duma, Vedomosti reports.