The user base of Goodgame Studios is now 300 million people, Taichi Panda will have a sequel, the developer Grand Gin Rummy has laid off 25% of employees, and tinyBuild becomes a console publisher.
- The total number of players (registered users) of the German Goodgame Studios reached 300 million. 50 million of them were acquired by the company over the past year. The key markets of the company’s games today are the USA, China, Russia and, surprise, India. The PC project Goodgame Empire has the most registrations – it has 80 million. Its mobile version of Goodgame: Four Kingdoms has 60 million.
- The box office Chinese hit Taichi Panda will have a sequel — Taichi Panda: Heroes, which the developers call Taichi Panda 2 both on their website and regularly on social networks. It is difficult to say how exactly the sequel will differ from the original, since when comparing the first part with the videos of the second, there is not much difference. Anyway, you can already sign up for a closed beta test.
- Berlin-based GameDuell studio, which previously specialized in casual web and mobile games, decided to focus on developing cross-platform card and desktop applications. Due to the change of guidelines, the company fired 25% of employees (before the dismissal, 205 people worked in the team). All this happened after the first relative success of the company in the mobile market — the release of the PvP card game (not a battler) Grand Gin Rummy, which Apple had created.
- tinyBuild founder Alex Nichiporchik announced that his company is now becoming a console publisher. “Now all the games that we sign are aimed at cross—platform launches between PCs and consoles,” Nichiporchik said. The first game to be released from tinyBuild on consoles will be the Lovely Planet shooter. On Steam to date, it has sold a digital circulation of 120 thousand copies.