According to analysts, sales of Helldivers 2 exceeded 8 million copies, Something Wicked Games studio laid off most of its employees, Steam again updated the record for peak online, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

This was stated by Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe in an interview with Bloomberg. He added that he had not negotiated the sale of the Microsoft studio — speculation about the corporation’s possible interest in buying Pocketpair appeared shortly after the successful release of Palworld.

Grom Social Enterprises has agreed to purchase Arctic7, a studio consisting of Sperasoft veterans.

Alyona Zhuravleva, who previously held the post of HRD in the studio, shared her experience of adapting novice managers in Glera Games with App2Top.

Clash Mini is another game that failed to reach the high standards of Supercell. The Finnish company announced that it will shut down Clash Mini servers at the end of April and remove the title from mobile app stores.

Valve has published a list of games that had the largest daily active audience on the Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024.

A few years ago, Valve employees decided to calculate the commercial efficiency of the company in terms of the ratio of net profit per employee per year and hour. They found out that in 2018, Valve surpassed such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in this indicator.

At the end of February, Electronic Arts announced a new stage of restructuring and the decision to lay off 670 people. According to IGN, one of the “victims” of the changes in the company was the Respawn Entertainment studio.

The new Aspyr remaster did not meet expectations.

Adjust, together with Applovin, has released a report on the state of affairs in the mobile market — Mobile app trends: 2024 edition. A separate chapter is devoted to mobile games. Read more about them in our material.

Beacon Interactive is going to use options and take over 4A Games and Zen Studios from Embracer Group. This is indicated by a letter from the head of the company Matthew Karch to Saber Interactive employees, an excerpt from which was published in X by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

According to the documents published online, it can be concluded (assumption) that, in fact, Saber Interactive bought itself from the Embracer Group.

2024 will be a difficult year for the US gaming market, predicts analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. He expects Americans to spend less on video games than in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a number of Saber Interactive assets for 2.57 billion Swedish kronor or $ 247 million.

This was announced on the official website of the company by Scopely CEO Javier Ferreira.

It became known about the new investment of The Games Fund. This time, the venture fund invested $ 1.5 million in the Roar Games studio.

Google hosted the Google for Games Developer Summit event. As part of it, the corporation introduced a number of innovations for the Google Play app store.

Discord is becoming a new platform for the distribution of games. The creators of the chat service announced that from March 18, all interested developers will be able to create games that can be played directly in Discord itself. Previously, only selected developers had this opportunity.

Good news. Despite the crisis in the industry, new gaming companies are still emerging. Emanuel Palalic and Garrett Young have announced the launch of a new studio. It’s called Emptyvessel. This is the second such announcement in the last 24 hours.