The Dutch government has supported the proposal to completely ban loot boxes in the country. Previously, only loot boxes that can be sold for real money were banned in the country.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past June.

On June 1, Midnight Ghost Hunt, a multiplayer action game about ghost hunting, was released in the Epic Games Store (EGS). According to the developers, more than a million people have met the game since that moment.

PlayStation Studios Mobile has left another head. The dismissal was announced by Mikhail Katkoff, who headed Savage Game Studios.

Apple continues to fight Epic Games. She asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the verdict issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Former employees of the studio “K-D LAB”, known primarily for the action adventure “Vangers” and the strategy series “Perimeter”, will work together again. They announced the foundation of the “K-D LAB Association”.

At the end of July, the WN Connect industrial event will be held in Shanghai. According to WN Media Group, the organizer of the event, more than 200 guests are expected. It is already known that representatives of such companies as 505 Games, ByteDance, NetEase, Tencent, Tilting Point and yodo1 will visit it.

Recently it became known that Valve refuses to publish games on Steam, assets in which are created with the help of artificial intelligence. Several developers have told about this problem. Valve has now publicly commented on the situation.

Apple has reduced the plan for the production of the Vision Pro AR headset due to the complex design of the device. This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to sources.

GamedevDou portal has published a list of five IT companies with the largest effective income tax rate* in Ukraine in 2022. The first place in the top was taken by Wargaming Kyiv.

The authors of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will stop developing games, according to media reports, Sony intends to work more actively with South Korean companies, Re-Logic admitted that Terraria sells well even 12 years after release — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

MY.GAMES company has shared updated Rush Royale metrics. In particular, she said that since the release in the fall of 2020, the game has earned $ 230 million.

Metacritic portal has published a list of the most highly rated games released in the first half of 2023. Only projects with at least seven ratings from the profile press were taken into account.

Against the background of loud statements that “hypercage is dead“, changes in business strategies by leading hyper-casual publishers and statements by analysts about the crisis in the niche, we talked about the situation with five market experts.

The Slovak Game Developers Association (SGDA) has released a report on the Slovak gaming industry. According to her, in 2022, local gaming companies earned a total of €77.1 million.

Monster Hunter: Rise has crossed a new frontier. Capcom reported that since its release in March 2021, the game has sold over 13 million copies.

The head of Electronic Arts (EA), Andrew Wilson, has increased his annual salary. According to the publisher’s report, for the fiscal year 2023, which ended on March 31, 2023, he earned almost a million dollars more than a year earlier.

During the BIG Festival in Brazil, Microsoft revealed the sales of its consoles. She reported that she had sold over 21 million copies of the Xbox Series X|S.

The creator of Pokémon Go is preparing to close the division in Los Angeles and make large-scale cuts. Niantic has announced that it will lay off 230 people. This is about a quarter of the total number of employees of the company.