At the end of 2019, the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, suggested that Microsoft increase annual spending on the purchase of games for Game Pass to $2-3 billion. In his opinion, this would help to take Sony out of the game subscription business, since in a few years there would be a shortage of valuable content on the market.

A new month, a new episode of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group. This time, the guest of Stas Minasov, Vice president of product at AppMagic, was Jesse Kroon, senior designer at Product Madness studio. The topic of cloning mobile games was discussed with him.

In 2021, Microsoft compiled a voluminous list of game studios and publishers that it is considering for purchase. It includes almost 200 companies, including CD PROJEKT RED, Activision Blizzard, Devolver Digital, Mundfish and MY.GAMES.

The publisher Nexon announced that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia bought another part of its shares.

The Realm Online — MMORPG, launched in December 1996, may close soon. Realm Worlds studio, which is currently supporting the game, has announced plans to turn off the servers.

On June 19, Yakuza series games were released in the GOG digital store. As noted by the editor Timo653, fewer people noted in the titles of these versions of titles than in versions for other platforms.

In August, the Novosibirsk Region will host an open-air for game developers Gamedev Weekend 2023. We tell you about the details of the future event.

According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube has started testing a system of embedded games, the authors of Alan Wake paid $ 1 for using a quote from Stephen King, Final Fantasy XVI started in British retail worse than the previous part — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Red Rover Interactive is a new studio opened by former employees of Funcom, Bohemia Interactive and other companies. They have already attracted the first investments and will now develop multiplayer survivalists.

Anime shooter Goddess of Victory: Nikke has earned over $400 million on mobile platforms since its release in November 2022. This is reported by Sensor Tower analysts.

A Japanese gamer got to the Nintendo shareholders’ meeting after he bought shares of the company for $ 3.5 thousand. He did this to complain about the unbalanced customization system in Splatoon 3.

Last March, Apple and Google disabled payments for users from Russia in their mobile stores. This could not but affect the Russian mobile games market. As calculated in data.ai , in 2022, residents of the country spent three times less on games in the App Store and Google Play than in 2021.

Hideo Kojima is not afraid of artificial intelligence. At the premiere of a documentary dedicated to the game designer, he said that AI will not be able to “get the upper hand” over humanity.

The Neogames organization, which calls itself the hub of the Finnish gaming industry, has joined companies that are dissatisfied with the tightening of the country’s migration policy. She claims that the decision of the authorities will lead to a “brain drain”.

Amendments on labeling to the law “On Advertising” should be in effect in Russia for about a year. Recall that they oblige to mark Internet advertising and threaten violators with large fines. In which case the amendments concern game developers and whether they are put into force, — says Marina Pozhidaeva, lawyer Versus.legal.

The Los Angeles Department of Tourism in the latest report announced the cancellation of E3 in 2024 and 2025. Recall that in 2022, he wrote that the organizers from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) had booked a site for a gaming exhibition for three years ahead.

In 2018, the Swedish company Starbreeze was on the verge of bankruptcy. To avoid this, it was forced to restructure, sell some assets and cut costs significantly. Starbreeze managed to solve its financial problems only five years later.

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, to do this, you need to multiply the number of subscribers on the Steam game page by a certain value. In his newsletter, he shared the current multipliers for 2023 (based on a survey of more than 125 developers):

The analytical company MoEngage predicts rapid growth in the Indian mobile games market. According to her estimates, the market turnover will grow from $2.6 billion in 2022 to $8.6 billion in 2027.