In mid-August, a controversy erupted around the roguelike sandbox Soulash 2, centered on the game’s romantic relationship system. Some gamers were dissatisfied that same-sex characters could not form romances.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” shared which disc editions of games were most frequently purchased by Russians in the first six months of 2024.

Last summer, Zynga announced its first NFT game — Sugartown. A year later, the company got rid of it and sold “all products with assets” to the startup D20 Labs.

Aldora is a new analytics company launched in early 2024 by Joost van Dreunen, the founder of the now-closed SuperData. The company recently published a forecast for the interactive entertainment market for the year 2025.

The sad story of Concord quickly came to an end. An announcement appeared in the official PlayStation blog regarding the cessation of sales and server shutdown for the game.

The analytical service VG Insights continues to monitor the performance of the Chinese hit Black Myth: Wukong. It has released the latest statistics for the Steam version of the game.

On August 30, the full release of Star Wars Outlaws took place. The new game from Ubisoft received rather mediocre scores from both the press and users, which negatively impacted the shares of the French company.

The leaders of BRICS countries should consider creating a common game store, believes Dmitry Smith, President of the Russian Computer Sports Federation. He voiced this proposal at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Recently, it was noticed online that the studio behind the Until Dawn remake underwent a wave of layoffs, as reported in social media posts by former employees. Ballistic Moon has now officially announced that it has indeed parted ways with a portion of its staff.

For the week of August 27 to September 3, Black Myth: Wukong returned to the top of the best-selling products list on Steam. However, the rest of the chart saw significant changes. Notably, the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 surged to second place.

Product Analyst at MY.GAMES, Lev Kobeleva, and Senior Game Designer at Sad Cat Studios, Alexander Barabanov, have introduced SteamTrender — an analytical service that allows users to explore the popularity, revenue, and other metrics of tags on Steam.

Publisher Tilting Point is conducting a new major round of layoffs. The company intends to lay off about 90 people—this accounts for 20% of Tilting Point’s total workforce.

Today, on September 2, employees of the French studio Spiders have gone on strike due to poor working conditions. It was revealed that developers from the Kylotonn studio decided to join them in the protest.

The European division of Nintendo has a new leader. Stephan Bole, who served as the president of Nintendo of Europe, has left the company.

The strategy game Crusader Kings III is celebrating its fourth anniversary. On this occasion, Paradox Interactive announced that in the past year, 1,567,446 new players have experienced Crusader Kings III.

August was a relatively calm month for the gaming industry in terms of layoffs. The Game Industry Layoffs portal reported a total of 271 specialists laid off in gaming-related companies last month.

Ballistic Moon is yet another game studio whose staff has faced layoffs. This was reported by Eurogamer, citing posts from laid-off employees on social media.

The game director of Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma has left Capcom, an analyst estimated Concord’s sales at 25,000 copies, and the co-founder of miHoYo suggested that game developers consider changing their profession due to the advancement of AI. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

This week, the Finnish mobile studio Lightneer officially shut down. It had been in operation for nine years.