On Thursday, November 9, the Government of the Russian Federation held a meeting with representatives of the Russian gaming industry. According to Kommersant, it discussed a bill on the mandatory transfer of servers of popular games in the country to Russia.

Amazon Games vice President Christoph Hartmann said in a letter to employees that massive layoffs took place in the Amazon gaming division. The thing is that the company has adjusted its approach to doing business.

The Australian studio Samurai Punk announced the closure. She disbanded the entire team, but promised to continue supporting the games in the foreseeable future.

South Korean publisher Neowiz acquired 21.26% of BLANK Studio. Game Studios, which was opened this spring by several former leading developers from CD PROJEKT RED. The purchase cost the company $17 million.

The GamesIndustry portal studied the data of the Australian Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) and shared statistics on the Australian gaming market for 2022.

Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is a mobile adaptation of the original Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs. According to Square Enix, since the release on September 7, 2023, the title has been downloaded more than 7 million times.

Atlus has announced that Persona 5 Strikers has sold 2 million copies. This RPG took almost four years: its release in Japan took place in February 2020, the game reached the global release in February 2021.

The Finnish company Remedy Entertainment has divided the position of Director of Product and Technology into two positions. Now these directions will be led by different people.

This was stated by the former developer of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and the founder of the Pirate Software indie studio Jason Thor Hall.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editors have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

The first details about the upcoming event have been published: It will be held in the capital of Serbia in early December, among the speakers are both veterans of the Western industry and representatives of large local teams. More than 400 companies are expected.

Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais told about the sales of the portable PC in a comment to The Verge. They did not give exact figures.

The South Korean publisher Nexon has announced a change of leadership. In March 2024, Owen Mahoney will cease to lead the company. By that time, it will be exactly ten years since he took the position of CEO.

Digital Extremes company will stop publishing games of third-party teams. In particular, she will no longer be a publisher of the Wayfinder MMO action, – the Airship Syndicate studio that developed it will again gain full control over the title.

Unity has summed up the financial results of the third quarter of 2023. She said that compared to last year, her revenue increased by 69%. The growth could have been even greater, but in September, after widespread criticism of the new pricing policy of the engine, its revenues decreased slightly.

In 2018, Google discussed a multimillion-dollar deal with Epic Games. She was ready to invest $147 million in Epic Games in three years if she agreed to publish Fortnite on Google Play. This is stated in the documents disclosed during the trial between the companies.

The Interregional Inspectorate for the Largest Taxpayers No. 7 filed an application to the Arbitration Court against the actions of Denis Kachura, the bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy case of Game Insight in Russia. He allegedly included in the register with the employees of the Russian “daughter” of Game Insight, to whom she owed salaries and severance payments, more people than went to court.

What should be the game documentation at the first stages of development, who should lead it, whether fake shots are needed – the editors of App2Top talked about this and much more with Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the indie studio Vengeance Games and author of the course “Fundamentals of Game Design“.