The Russian Association of Distributors and Importers of Video Games (aka R.A.D.I. Video Games) proposed to the government to create a registry of games that are shipped to Russia. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to sources close to the government.

The management of the Embracer Group has announced a decision to split the Swedish holding into three companies, each of which will be separately listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock Exchange.

Several games in the Fallout series have updated the online record on Steam, the court sided with Take-Two in the LeBron James tattoo case, Savvy Games Group decided to increase investments in mobile games, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In March 2023, Panic launched the app store for the portable hurdy-gurdy console Playdate — Catalog. According to her, over the past year, developers distributing projects on the site have earned a total of $544,290 there.

The organizers of the Gamedev conference.World, including indie developer Rami Ismail, presented the Global Games Fund. He will support gaming startups “outside the Western world.”

What you should pay attention to when licensing soundtracks for the game, — Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, specialists of the REVERA law firm, told in their column for App2Top.

French publisher PulluP Entertainment (formerly Focus Entertainment) summed up the financial year ended March 31, 2024. We have selected the main thing from the report.

Stability AI, the company that created the neural network for generating Stable Diffusion images, has reduced 10% of the staff, or about 20 people. This is reported by CNBC with reference to a letter for employees.

On April 18, Private Division publishing house and Moon Studios released the No Rest for the Wicked role-playing game in early Steam access. Within a few hours, she overtook the previous Private Division projects in terms of peak online on the site.

On April 10, 2024, the House Flipper 2 repair simulator was released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. Krzysztof Kostowski, CEO of the PlayWay company that published the game, shared the figures for the first 72 hours.

Fallout 4 topped the chart of the best-selling games in Europe in the last week, GamesIndustry reports, citing data from the GSD analytical platform. She managed to do this thanks to the premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts.

Devolver Digital has published a financial report for 2023. The company is still not making a profit, but its losses have decreased sevenfold.

The UK government-funded UK Games Fund has supported local gaming startups. He has allocated more than 3 million pounds for the development of 22 games.

In October 2023, Frontier Developments announced its decision to reduce staff. In a conversation with GLHF, several former and current employees of the company called the dismissal process extremely disrespectful.

The indie horror about the game of “Russian roulette” Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.

On April 17, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation again included UNIGINE in the register of domestic software. The engine has been missing from the list since the end of February.

The Open Mobile Platform company believes that the Aurora operating system it has created may be suitable for a future Russian console. According to the developers, Aurora already has the necessary tools to support console games.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, has raised $7.2 billion for new investments. She has already transferred $600 million of them to the budget of the a16z Games foundation, which deals with gaming companies.

Red Rover Interactive is a young studio founded last year by former employees of Funcom, Bohemia Interactive and Lockwood Publishing. On April 16, she successfully closed the Series A funding round.