News July 19 Take-Two has warned investors that review bombing may negatively impact the size of the game’s audience and revenue Take-Two Interactive now considers review bombing of games to be a financial and reputational risk. The company added it to its list of risks two months ago, but it’s only now that people online are taking notice.
News July 19 The release of Rainbow Six Mobile and The Division Resurgence has been postponed again, but players are enjoying XDefiant — key points about the games in Ubisoft’s report In the quarterly report for April-June 2024, Ubisoft also shared updates on some of its games. We have compiled the most notable facts.
News July 19 Ubisoft Report: Revenues Are Growing, Half of the Income Is Generated by Consoles Ubisoft published a report for the first fiscal quarter ending on June 30, 2024. Below are the main financial highlights of the company.
News July 19 The FTC filed a complaint against Microsoft in court due to the increased cost of Game Pass The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues its attempts to challenge Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. On July 18, it supplemented its appeal with a statement criticizing the increase in Game Pass prices and the addition of a tier that excludes games at launch.
News July 19 Media: Internet Development Institute granted the creators of “Trouble Times” funding for developing expansions The studio Cyberia Nova received 100 million rubles from the Institute for Internet Development (IID) to expand the educational mode for “Smut” called “Time of Troubles.” This was reported by “Kommersant” referring to sources.
News July 18 AppMagic: user spending in Peak Games has reached $5 billion Mobile gamers have spent $5 billion on games from the Turkish company Peak Games, according to the analytical service AppMagic. Almost the entire amount came from two projects — match-3 games Toon Blast and Toy Blast.
News July 18 EA Sports FC 24 is the best-selling game of the first half of 2024 in Europe In the first six months of 2024, around 80 million copies of PC and console games were sold in Europe, reports GamesIndustry citing GSD data. This is 1.6% less than last year.
News July 18 Analytics: only 232 games released in the first half of 2024 received at least a thousand reviews on Steam Gaming marketing expert Chris Zukowski examined how many new titles released in the first half of 2024 on Steam became “hits.” That is, they received at least a thousand reviews* on the platform. There were not many.
News July 18 In the second quarter of 2024, the volume of gaming deals nearly doubled last year’s figures The analytical company InvestGame studied the situation in the gaming deals market in the second quarter of 2024. It released a report with data on private investments, M&A, and public offerings.
News July 18 Former developers of Helldivers 2 and World of Warcraft have opened a new studio called Blue Scarab Entertainment A new game development studio officially opened in Sweden. It’s called Blue Scarab Entertainment. It was founded by a group of industry veterans who previously worked on Helldivers 2, World of Warcraft, Star Stable Online, Battlefield, and Age of Conan.
News July 18 Rumor: NetherRealm Studios has closed its mobile division It appears that NetherRealm Studios has decided to exit the mobile gaming market. Several former employees of the studio wrote on social media that the mobile team has been disbanded.
News July 17 Over a billion people have played mini-games in WeChat The head of the mini-games segment at WeChat, Li Qing, revealed fresh statistics about the platform at the WeChat Open Class event. Below are the key figures.
News July 17 PwC: By 2028, the global video game market will exceed $330 billion Video games are one of the fastest-growing sectors in the entertainment industry, according to a report by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). It predicts that by 2028, the gaming market will grow by more than 47% compared to 2023.
News July 17 Little Kitty, Big City — the fourth most popular game of 2024 on Game Pass Developers from Double Dagger Studio shared with GameDiscoverCo that the kitten adventure game Little Kitty, Big City has been a tremendous success for the studio. With the help of Game Pass alone, the game has been played by over 2 million people.
News July 17 The creators of cinematics for Dead Island and League of Legends: Wild Rift are shutting down Another news about a company closing down. Scottish Axis Studios, specializing in animation, has gone bankrupt and started business liquidation.
News July 17 Flying Sheep Studios is closing after ten years in business The management of the German studio Flying Sheep Studios, which develops HTML5 games, announced the imminent closure of the studio. It will officially cease operations at the end of the month.
News July 17 Over 500,000 people bought Arma 3 during the Steam summer sale Bohemia Interactive reported that thanks to a recent sale on Steam, the audience for the shooter Arma 3 has grown by more than half a million people. Of these, 100,000 purchased the game on the first day of discounts.
News July 16 3,000 game developers have registered on RuStore One-third of all developers in the RuStore mobile app store are game developers, VK reports. Currently, the platform hosts over 3,000 game development teams.
News July 16 Half-year video game sales in the UK fell by 29.4% In the first half of 2024, residents of the United Kingdom spent almost a third less on video games compared to the previous year. This information was shared by the UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).
News July 16 Resident Evil 7 is selling poorly on iOS On July 2, Capcom released Resident Evil 7 Biohazard on iOS devices. According to the MobileGamer portal, citing AppMagic data, the game is not popular. In two weeks, it was downloaded about 83,000 times.