The American company Motorsport Games announced that as of December 31, 2024, sales of several of its games will cease. It will remove all its NASCAR-branded projects and DLC from the shelves of digital stores.

Throughout 2024, gaming companies worldwide actively reduced their workforce. November was no exception. According to estimates by Game Industry Layoffs, last month 838 gaming specialists lost their jobs.

The Chinese giant Tencent has made a new deal, acquiring 37% of the shares from Hero Entertainment in the Chinese studio Kuro Games, known for the role-playing gacha game Wuthering Waves.

Fortnite set a new record for the number of concurrent viewers at an in-game concert, Garry’s Mod has been purchased over 25.5 million times, and Marvel’s Spider-Man may have earned $3.8 billion — here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

This figure was announced by the Deputy Director General of the Institute for Internet Development (IRI), Andrey Voronkov, during a panel discussion at the “RED EXPO” conference. This is 27.4% more than the current year.

The analytics service AppMagic compiled a list of mobile casual game publishers that earned the most from IAP* from January to November 2024. Scopely took the top spot in the ranking.

The studio Mintrocket announced that their underwater culinary adventure, Dave the Diver, has surpassed 5 million copies sold worldwide.

According to the BBC, only two out of the 26 top-grossing games with loot boxes on Google Play clearly indicate the presence of this mechanic in their British advertisements. The others remain silent about the loot boxes, thereby violating the UK’s advertising regulator requirements.

Microsoft plans to integrate several key features into the Xbox App for Android users in the United States. Gamers will be able to purchase games directly through the mobile app, bypassing Google Play, and launch them via streaming.

A new development has emerged in the investigation of Steam’s alleged monopoly on the PC store market. The court has converted the lawsuit from Wolfire Games and Dark Catt Studios against Valve into a class action suit. This means that many other developers can now join the case.

A month ago, Russian gaming companies began adding new labels to their games as part of an experiment — warning of the presence of violence, smoking scenes, in-game purchases, and various other content. Several hundred developers implemented this on the VK Play platform alone.

Over the past six months, the creators of Star Citizen have raised an additional $50 million through a crowdfunding campaign. As a result, by the morning of November 29, the total funds collected for the game’s development reached $751.3 million. However, reports suggest that all is not well at Cloud Imperium Games.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has reached another milestone. Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive announced that the number of players in the action game has exceeded 5 million.

The head of VK Play, Alexander Mikheev, admitted at the “RED EXPO” conference that at the dawn of the platform’s creation, his team approached positioning incorrectly. As a result, players thought that VK Play was aiming to become a fully-fledged domestic alternative to Steam, but VK planned to create an auxiliary service for convenient game purchases.

At the Skolkovo Foundation, a new division dedicated to fostering the Russian gaming industry has been announced. It is called “Sk Games.”

Roblox has joined the ranks of companies opposing the massive fees from Apple and Google for in-app purchases (IAP). Now users can get 25% more of the in-game currency, Robux, by purchasing it through the official Roblox ecosystem, bypassing mobile stores.

The analytics service AppMagic has named the ten mobile games in the match-3 genre with the highest revenue from IAP. More than half of the projects in the top list are games from King and Playrix.

Block Blast! is a mobile block puzzle game in the spirit of “Pentamino” and “Tetris,” developed by Hong Kong-based Hungry Studio. According to its creators, the game is very popular.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, is looking to expand his business portfolio with a new startup. This time, by establishing his own gaming studio based on his AI project, xAI.