In China, they began to require all publishers of mobile games and applications to report to the local regulatory authority. This is reported by Reuters with reference to the decree of the Ministry of Industry and Informatization of China (MIIT).

In the three months since the release of Honkai: Star Rail has earned $490 million on mobile platforms alone. This is reported by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

Sony has published a financial report for April-June 2023. We tell you how the quarter went for the gaming division of the company.

Strauss Zelnick, who heads Take-Two Interactive, does not agree with gamers who call the price tag of the Red Dead Redemption reissue unreasonably high. In a comment to the IGN portal, he stated that the price of $50 is “commercially reasonable.”

Take-Two Interactive has also updated its game sales data.

Take-Two Interactive has released a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. Its revenue was higher than the company had predicted.

The role-playing novelty from Larian Studios topped the Steam top of the highest-grossing games over the past week (more precisely, for the period from the first to the eighth of August). This time — taking into account the fritupley titles.

InnoGames has announced a new achievement of the Forge of Empires strategy. She announced that the game, released in 2012, earned over €1 billion.

The global video game market has started to grow again. The analytical company Newzoo predicts that in 2023 its revenue will increase by 2.6% and reach $187.7 billion.

Nekki games have been downloaded more than a billion times in total. 95% of all downloads are organic.

The GamedevDou portal has compiled a portrait of a Ukrainian game developer. To do this, he interviewed 948 game dev specialists.

The antimonopoly regulator of New Zealand announced that it does not object to the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft.

Polish Acid Wizard Studio is going to take a break. The studio announced that after the release of patch 1.4. for the horror Darkwood, it will close for a while.

On July 20, a Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fighter simulator was released on PC and consoles. According to the tinyBuild company that published the title, in 18 days it brought its creators $1.4 million in gross revenue.

Another report on the gaming industry has been released. The Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment (IIDEA) spoke about the situation in Italy.

GamedevDou portal talked to Lithuanian developers about the state of the Lithuanian gaming industry. We have selected the key facts.

On Friday, August 4, Square Enix published a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. In it, the company reported a significant drop in profits.

Final Fantasy XVI is selling worse than Square Enix expected. This was stated by the company’s president Takashi Kiryu during a briefing on the results of the last quarter, Bloomberg reports, citing three people who attended the event.

Baldur’s Gate 3 took ninth place in the top games on Steam with the largest online in history, Valve demanded to stop monetizing custom modes for Dota 2, the circulation of the Metal Gear series exceeded 60 million copies — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.