The Chinese company miHoYo, which developed Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, is looking for ways not to pay a 30% commission to the App Store, according to the publication The China Project. It reports that miHoYo tried to circumvent the rules of the store at least twice.

Due to the problems in the economy, many companies have reduced their staff. According to the portal videogamelayoffs.com In 2023, 6,136 game developers lost their jobs.

Game development studios are being actively opened in Russia, the Izvestia newspaper writes. She reports, citing data from the Video Game Industry Development Organization (RVI), that at least 50 new studios have appeared in the country over the past 18 months.

In August 2023, more than 1.3 million people actively played a mobile game in the Spring Valley Expedition genre. According to Playkot, six months before that, the monthly active audience (MAU) of the game was half as much.

October 6 began for CD PROJEKT with a decline in the value of shares. As Bloomberg noted, after the opening of trading, the company’s shares fell by 8.2% to 109 zloty ($25) apiece.

Microsoft is preparing to announce the completion of the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion on October 13. This is reported by The Verge source.

In the third quarter of 2023, venture capital companies invested $ 700.3 million in games, Bloomberg reports, citing PitchBook data. This is the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2020.

How to find a common language with AI and what part of the work can really be delegated to neural networks without loss of quality,” Andrey Novikov, an artist at ZiMAD, told in his column for App2Top.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) is getting bigger. She buys 70% of the shares of Snowprint Studios — the creators of the mobile Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus.

Telltale Games has also taken up layoffs. She officially announced that she had cut some of her employees. The reason was “current market conditions”.

On October 5, CD PROJEKT held an investor day, during which she discussed Cyberpunk 2077 and shared other news. We have selected the main thing from the company’s report.

Cubic Games, previously engaged in mobile games, decided to enter the PC games market. The company announced that the pixel shooter Pixel Gun 3D will have a Steam version.

The Polish company CD PROJEKT reported on the success of the DLC for Cyberpunk 2077, and at the same time told how much its development and promotion cost it.

Recently, seven dismissed BioWare employees sued the company and demanded to increase their severance payments to the statutory ones. In a comment to Kotaku, the developers’ lawyer said that BioWare had previously refused them out of fear that it would become a financial burden for her.

Thronefall is a minimalistic urban planner with elements of Tower Defense. Indie studio GrizzlyGames, consisting of only two people, shared the success of the game in a conversation with gaming expert Simon Carless.

Raj Patel, marketing director at the Canadian indie studio Hinterland Games, has calculated how often staff cuts have been announced in gaming companies this year. According to him, this happened almost every week.

The network noticed that Anders Howard, the chief monetization designer, left Naughty Dog. He was engaged in a multiplayer game in the world of The Last of Us.

Keywords Studios has joined the list of companies that have cut employees. At the end of September, she terminated contracts with specialists who helped BioWare with testing games.