At the beginning of the week, Sensor Tower announced the purchase of an analytical company data.ai . It became known that after the deal data.ai She cut about 200 employees.

Epic Games held a presentation of State of Unreal at the GDC 2024 developer Conference. During it, the company demonstrated the capabilities of the next version of the Unreal Engine and shared a number of news on the development of Fortnite and its business in general. We have collected the most important announcements.

The visual novel market is diverse. There are applications with storefronts, there is a large segment of horror and no less large — short stories “for adults”. But within the framework of the current round table, we decided to dive into such a niche as visual novels for web platforms. Our experts and guides in this niche were representatives of Dats Games, Arcanum Games and Yandex Games.

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Electronic Arts (EA), Miniclip and Jagex misled users by not telling their game ads about the presence of loot boxes in those games. Companies have been banned from using this advertisement in the country.

Remedy Entertainment has released a financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year 2023. The company’s losses increased as it actively invested in game development.

Viktor Kudryavtsev, Content Delivery Manager at Wargaming and author of the Game Producer course, shared his understanding of production risks.

Nekki has updated the Cascadeur character animation tool to version 2024.1. Briefly tell us what has changed.

The giant 2024 Unity Gaming Report has been released. It is dedicated to trends in game development. If possible, we will briefly tell you about the main thing from the study.

On March 19, the PC version of Stardew Valley received patch 1.6 with several hundred changes and a large portion of new content. The release of the update shook up the community, and as a result, online games on Steam grew to an all-time high of 146,159 people.

Ubisoft showed the developments on a project called NEO NPC at the GDC developer conference. As part of it, the company is experimenting with the creation of non-player characters who, thanks to generative AI, are able to conduct a meaningful dialogue with players.

The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker “bagel” Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.

This figure was announced by the South Korean studio Neowiz. The audience of the gloomy soulslike about the adventures of Pinocchio overcame the milestone of 7 million people six months after the release of the game: Lies of P was released on September 18, 2023.

Velan Studios, known for the AR racing game Hot Wheels: Rift Rally and the now-closed multiplayer action game Knockout City, has laid off some of its staff. This is stated in the publications of former studio employees on social networks.

The Helldivers 2 cooperative shooter has been leading the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam since the beginning of February, but it lost ground in the week from March 12 to March 19. In the general chart, which takes into account the Steam Deck and free games, it was bypassed by Counter-Strike 2.

HTC wants to attract more developers to the Viveport virtual reality app store. She announced that she would temporarily reduce the commission amount from 30% to 10%, such conditions will be in effect until the end of the year.

Valve has added a new set of family features to the beta version of the Steam client, allowing users to share access to games – family groups. They replaced Steam Family Sharing and the family browsing feature.

Consolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .

The publisher of Playstack and the developer LocalThunk have announced the new success of the indie card hit Balatro. They reported that the game took its first mark of one million copies sold in a little less than a month since its release: its release took place on February 20, 2024.

Epic Games has announced that the Epic Games Store client will stop supporting Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from June 2024. It will also drop support for 32-bit Windows 10.