Markus Persson, also known as Notch, wrote on social media about the launch of his new studio called Bitshift Entertainment. She is working on a voxel “bagel” with elements of a loot shooter.

On March 21, the mobile version of Call of Duty: Warzone was released. According to AppMagic, the game earned $2.7 million in the first two weeks with 15 million downloads. For a project of this level, the release may seem commercially weak.

Landfall Games Studio has announced that the free distribution of the cooperative horror Content Warning on Steam has exceeded all expectations. According to her calculations, the number of owners of the game exceeded 6.2 million people per day.

Riot Games has dropped its claims against Shanghai-based Moonton studio, best known for MOBA Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. According to GamesIndustry, she agreed to sign a settlement agreement and withdraw all claims.

The South Korean studio Shift Up summed up the financial results of 2023. She reported a sharp increase in income.

Also among the leaders are games with mixed reality support and simulators,” the report of the agency company Curran Games Agency says.

The analytical company Newzoo has published a large-scale study on the state of the PC and console games market at the beginning of 2024. We share the key points from it.

Every year on April 1, the Landfall Games studio releases a new unusual project. In 2024, this is a cooperative horror Content Warning in the spirit of Lethal Company, which has already become a hit on Steam.

On March 27, Lilith Games released the AFK Journey role-playing game. In the first week, her revenue reached the level of 500 thousand dollars per day. In total, according to AppMagic, the game earned $2.5 million in seven days of sales.

The management of Motorsport Games reported that the company is running out of money. The available funds will most likely not be enough until the end of 2024. Therefore, now the top management is considering options for its future and does not exclude that Motorsport Games will cease to exist soon.

InvestGame analysts decided to help game developers, as well as esports and Web3 companies with the search for financing. They have posted a table with specialized funds in the public domain.

Capcom announced that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.

Ubisoft continues to reduce staff. This time, she laid off several dozen employees from the global publishing and Asia-Pacific divisions.

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investments or a publisher. Next in line is material from the outsourcing studio Earworm Studio, which is trying itself as a developer of the isometric survival Vesta Survival (aka Space Stars).

Two weeks ago, Epic Games announced at the GDC 2024 developer conference that it had paid $320 million over the year to users who created their islands in Fortnite. Naavik analyst and senior business manager of the Xbox publishing division, David Taylor, looked at how this amount was distributed among developers.

In April, as part of the WN Academy educational project, a course dedicated to business sales in the gaming industry is being launched. The course is taught by Yulia Lebedeva, COO and partner of WN Media Group.

In November 2023, Chinese Joy Net Games released Legend of Mushroom – idle RPG on mobile devices, in which the user plays as mushroom warriors. By the end of March, the project began to earn about $ 2.5 million every day from in-game purchases (IAP) and generate more than 200,000 downloads.

The loyalty service for mobile players Mistplay has published a study on the behavior of paying users. We tell you about the key points of the work.

For the gaming industry, March was a quieter month in terms of layoffs than January and February, but hundreds of people were still out of work. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, gaming companies laid off 628 employees last month.