The cooperative indie horror Lethal Company managed to become the most highly rated game on Steam among all projects that were released in 2023. He beat Baldur’s Gate 3, the remake of Resident Evil 4 and Dave the Diver.

Plarium has achieved a new achievement. The total user spending in its games on Google Play and the App Store reached $3.37 billion, according to a report from the AppMagic analytical platform.

Released on October 26, 2023, cyberpunk action Ghostrunner 2 showed a financially successful start. In a notice to investors, the Polish studio One More Level reported that it took several days to recoup the costs of creating the game.

The Chinese holding ByteDance will restructure its gaming division. According to Reuters sources, during it the company will close its largest gaming “daughter” of the publisher Nuverse.

Jason Wilson (aka Jay Gunn) is a developer who was responsible for game design and many other aspects of the original games of the MediEvil series. The other day he put up for sale a statuette of the BAFTA Award, which he received in 2000 for his work on MediEvil 2.

Ubisoft started promoting Assassin’s Creed Mirage with pop—up ads in another part of the series – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The network noticed that banners now appear during the game with an offer to buy Assassin’s Creed Mirage at a discount in honor of Black Friday.

GDEV (formerly Nexters) has summed up the financial results of the third quarter and the first nine months of 2023. We chose the main thing from the report.

Indie publisher and developer Toge Productions, known primarily for the visual novel about the barista Coffee Talk, decided to expand. The company announced that it has joined the Mojiken Studio.

The Warcraft Rumble mobile action strategy has brought Blizzard Entertainment $13.7 million in three weeks since its release, according to data from the AppMagic analytical platform. Although this is a good result for the game in its segment, it is far from the starting figures of the hit Clash Royale.

On September 29, 2023, Electronic Arts released EA Sports FC 24, the first football simulator released after the company ended its partnership with FIFA. Newzoo analysts studied the success of the project in October and compared its starting indicators with those of FIFA 23.

The company SuperScale has published a report Good Games Don’t Die, which was prepared by Atomik Research on its order. As part of the survey, analysts spoke with 504 mobile game developers from the UK and the USA.

Torn Away is an adventure game telling about the journey of a ten—year-old girl from Germany home during World War II. Although the game received 96% positive reviews on Steam and 85 out of 100 on Metacritic, its launch turned into a failure.

The authors of the Stable Diffusion neural network have announced the release of Stable Video Diffusion. This is a model that generates videos up to four seconds long based on an image or text description.

Sony failed to annul a class action lawsuit filed by British gamers in August 2022. The UK Competition Court of Appeal ruled that the company must justify its position at the hearing.

The GameMaker team announced that developers who are not going to make money on their games can now not pay for the engine. The only limitation is that the free version of GameMaker cannot be used for console projects.

The company Nacon announced that the release of RoboCop: Rogue City exceeded expectations and became the largest among the games published by it.

The cooperative horror Lethal Company, created by a lone developer Zeekerss, has become a hit on Steam. It took the third place in the chart of the highest-grossing premium products on the site for the last week.

This amount is indicated in the profile of former Fortnite creative director Donald Mustard on the website of AGBO — the production company of directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Anthony, Joe Russo). Mastart left Epic Games in September 2023 and is now listed as an AGBO partner.