Players in Helldivers 2 will still not necessarily have to link Steam and PlayStation Network (PSN) accounts. Sony has announced that it has listened to the community and lifted this requirement.

Helldivers 2 was withdrawn from sale on Steam in 177 countries, Brazil decided to regulate the gaming industry, Gray Zone Warfare was bought 500 thousand times — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Why gaming companies need EULA, what it happens, what you should pay attention to when preparing it for the game, — Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, specialists of REVERA law firm, told in their column for App2Top.

The publisher of Private Division, specializing in low- and medium-budget games, has parted with a significant number of employees. This is reported by GamesIndustry with reference to its own sources.

The year 2024 has started very well for Brawl Stars. According to AppMagic, in the first four months, the Supercell game earned over $169.8 million from the IAP, after paying mobile store fees and taxes.

On May 2, Odd Meter studio and publisher 11 bit studios released a PC version of INDIKA, a surreal adventure about a nun in an alternative Russia of the late 19th century. On the day of release, the game attracted 1,200 Steam users at the same time.

The GitHub team deleted 8535 repositories with forks of the Yuzu emulator for games from the Nintendo Switch handheld console. She did this after receiving just one, but voluminous DMCA complaint from Nintendo.

The Dutch studio Paladin Studios, noted for its work on Cut The Rope Remastered, Stormbound and Amazing Katamari Damacy, has announced its closure.

Uma Musume Pretty Derby is a mix of life simulator and horse racing, the action of which is built around pony girls. At the end of February, the game turned three years old. With a slight delay, Sensor Tower analysts shared the indicators of the mobile version of the project.

In February, Sony announced plans to lay off 900 employees of the gaming division. Alex Barnes, game director from the British studio Firesprite, wrote on social media that he was among the dismissed specialists.

Last month, the gaming industry continued to be stormed. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, in April, gaming companies fired or announced the dismissal of at least 1003 people.

Unity continues to improve its engine. She released a preview version of Unity 6 with accelerated rendering, artificial intelligence-based tools and various optimizations for multiplayer games.

Unity has found a successor to John Riccitiello, who left the post of CEO in the fall of 2023 after a scandal with an updated pricing policy. She announced that from May 15, 2024, this position will be held by Matthew Bromberg.

Take-Two has decided to close the authors of the Kerbal Space Program 2 and Rollerdrome, Tencent has tripled its share in Remedy, South Korea has prepared a five—year plan to support console games – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In March 2024, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was released on the Nintendo Switch. The original version of this historical action role-playing game was released back in 2018. Zhanna Goranskaya, Director of Business Development at Saber Interactive in the CIS and Eastern Europe, told in her column for App2Top about how the work on the port was going on.

According to the Serbian Gaming Association (SGA), there are 3,400 registered game developers in the country by the end of 2023. This is 98% more than it was a year earlier. At that time, there were 1,700 specialists in the local industry.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group continues to dispose of assets. A month after the sale of the publisher Headup Games, the company agreed to sell Nordic Game Supply.

At the beginning of the week, the authors of the Songs of Conquest turn-based strategy inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic announced that the game will reach release on May 20, 2024. After that, gamers began to actively add the title to their wish lists.

Job search ads from Belka Games employees began appearing en masse on LinkedIn yesterday. Judging by them, the cuts primarily affected line specialists.