Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) is getting bigger. She buys 70% of the shares of Snowprint Studios — the creators of the mobile Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus.

Telltale Games has also taken up layoffs. She officially announced that she had cut some of her employees. The reason was “current market conditions”.

On October 5, CD PROJEKT held an investor day, during which she discussed Cyberpunk 2077 and shared other news. We have selected the main thing from the company’s report.

Cubic Games, previously engaged in mobile games, decided to enter the PC games market. The company announced that the pixel shooter Pixel Gun 3D will have a Steam version.

The Polish company CD PROJEKT reported on the success of the DLC for Cyberpunk 2077, and at the same time told how much its development and promotion cost it.

Recently, seven dismissed BioWare employees sued the company and demanded to increase their severance payments to the statutory ones. In a comment to Kotaku, the developers’ lawyer said that BioWare had previously refused them out of fear that it would become a financial burden for her.

Thronefall is a minimalistic urban planner with elements of Tower Defense. Indie studio GrizzlyGames, consisting of only two people, shared the success of the game in a conversation with gaming expert Simon Carless.

Raj Patel, marketing director at the Canadian indie studio Hinterland Games, has calculated how often staff cuts have been announced in gaming companies this year. According to him, this happened almost every week.

The network noticed that Anders Howard, the chief monetization designer, left Naughty Dog. He was engaged in a multiplayer game in the world of The Last of Us.

Keywords Studios has joined the list of companies that have cut employees. At the end of September, she terminated contracts with specialists who helped BioWare with testing games.

Next year, the Unreal Engine will switch to a new pricing model for corporate clients not related to game development — film companies, car brands and others. This was announced by the head of Epic Games Tim Sweeney during a speech at the Unreal Fest 2023 conference.

Time Manager Grand Hotel Mania is one of the mobile hits of MY.GAMES. The company announced that the game has earned $100 million to date.

The police detained several former Ubisoft managers, according to the French trade union Solidaires Informatique. They were interrogated in the case of harassment.

Journalist Zach Bussey (Zach Bussey) in his profile on X (Twitter) reported that Amazon fired some of the Twitch employees.

Epic Games continues to develop the Fortnite ecosystem. The company announced that since the game has content for different ages, then everyone should be assigned an appropriate age rating.

Seven BioWare veterans have appealed to a Canadian court. They accused the company of “unreasonably mistreatment” during the dismissal.

Astrum Entertainment has announced a management reshuffle. She appointed Alexey Izotov, who previously headed the publishing direction at MY.GAMES, as the new CEO.

Sad Cat Studios, a studio with Belarusian roots, has raised $5 million from GEM Capital. She is going to spend part of this amount to finalize the retrofuturistic platformer Replaced.

The analytical service Gamalytic shared infographics on the total number of games released on Steam and their approximate revenue. Most of the titles do not earn even $ 1000, but the number of successful projects in the total mass continues to grow.