A month ago, the South Korean company KRAFTON announced the acquisition of the studio Tango Gameworks, which Microsoft previously attempted to close. In an interview with Game Developer, KRAFTON CEO Changhan Kim provided more details about the deal.

Piers Harding-Rolls, a specialist from the analytical firm Ampere Analysis, shared his assessment of the initial sales of Star Wars Outlaws during the GI Microcast podcast. According to his calculations, by August 31, the game had sold approximately 800,000 copies.

The studio Pocketpair, known for developing Palworld, announced that it will contest the patent lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The studio aims to prove its innocence and in doing so, protect other indie developers from attempts to stifle their creative ideas.

Square Enix has announced a new milestone for Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a free-to-play remake of Final Fantasy VII, which was released on mobile devices in September 2023 and on Steam in December 2023. According to the company, the game downloads have recently surpassed 9 million.

Playtika is expanding. It has signed an agreement to acquire the Israeli studio SuperPlay, known for mobile games Dice Dreams and Domino Dreams.

Pocketpair Studios is facing a legal battle. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court, accusing the developers of Palworld of infringing on their patents.

Yesterday, Behaviour Interactive announced the cancellation of the cooperative PvE shooter Project T set in the Dead by Daylight universe. It has now been revealed that the studio working on the game, Midwinter Entertainment, has shut down.

Everdale is a city-building simulator set in a fairy-tale world with a focus on cooperative gameplay. It was initially developed by Supercell, but in October 2022, the company decided to shut down the project, and a few months later, the game was acquired by the studio Metacore. However, it turned out that Everdale will not be released after all.

By mid-2024, Microsoft sold 28.3 million Xbox Series units, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from the analytics company Aldora. This is significantly fewer than the sales of the PlayStation 5.

Former BioWare studio producer Mark Darrah stated that he does not understand why some players consider Dragon Age: Inquisition a commercial failure. According to him, the role-playing game has sold over 12 million copies to date.

On September 17, 2024, Electronic Arts (EA) held a large-scale event for investors, where it revealed its future plans. We’ve highlighted the company’s key points.

The Australian government has made changes to its game rating system. Starting from September 22, 2024, the country’s rating board will assign games containing paid loot boxes an “M15+” rating — recommended for individuals over 15 years of age.

By mid-September 2024, over 3 million people played the dungeon adventure sandbox game Core Keeper. This figure was revealed by the Swedish indie studio Pugstorm on social media.

The International Business Machines (IBM) company convinced a U.S. jury that several games by mobile publisher Zynga infringed its patent rights related to web communications.

The action game about space marines has solidified its success in the Steam chart for the most profitable games. For the week from September 10 to September 17, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 once again secured the top spot in both the paid and overall charts.

The British company nDreams, specializing in virtual reality games, has decided to undergo a restructuring process. As part of this, up to 17.5% of the staff will be laid off. Some managerial positions will be among those affected.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has endorsed the project for the voluntary labeling of games in the country, developed by the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI). This information was reported by the newspaper “Izvestia,” citing the ministry.

In 2022, Sony was in negotiations with several companies regarding chip production for the yet-unannounced PlayStation 6 console, according to Reuters sources. One of the most likely candidates was Intel, but it failed to reach an agreement with Sony on the terms of cooperation.

Epic Games has decided to teach game development using the Unreal Engine. The company announced the launch of an educational course on game design on the Coursera platform.