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Hasbro has allocated $ 1 billion for the development of AAA games

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, decided to invest more in video games after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!. In an interview with GameSpot, Dan Ayoub, head of digital product development, mentioned that she has distributed $1 billion between her subsidiary studios working on AAA-level projects.

The owners of the Epic Games Store and Game Pass have scaled back deals with indie developers

It has always been difficult for small developers to get funding, but now the situation has become even more gloomy. In an interview with PC Gamer, the creators of Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon stated that indie teams were paid less for an exclusive release in the Epic Games Store and Game Pass.

Embracer Group CEO: we receive offers every week to buy our subsidiaries

In March, Embracer Group announced two major deals, the sale of parts of Saber Interactive and Gearbox Entertainment. At an investor event, the CEO of the Swedish holding company, Lars Wingefors, said that his company no longer plans to part with its divisions.

Gearbox Entertainment has massively reduced its staff

Gearbox Entertainment has conducted a round of layoffs after announcing its sale of Take-Two Interactive for $460 million. This is reported by the Game Developer portal with reference to the publications of former employees of the company on social networks.

CD PROJEKT reported for 2023: sales of the Cyberpunk 2077 franchise reached $ 752 million, and the company’s profit increased by 39%

CD PROJEKT has published a financial report for the past year. The Polish gaming giant is showing excellent performance both in terms of revenue and profit. The report also announced the revenue of the Cyberpunk 2077 franchise for the entire period of operation and gave an update on the company’s future line of projects.

Thunderful Group sells the publisher of the Bridge Constructor series of games

Thunderful Group has announced that Headup Games is coming under the control of Microcuts Holding, a company headed by Dieter Schoeller, founder and CEO of Headup Games.

Embracer Group completes sale of Saber Interactive

Saber Interactive has officially withdrawn from the Embracer Group. This is reported on the website of the Swedish holding.

Deputy Gorelkin believes that VK can already create a console by connecting a joystick to the Marusya column. Market participants have a different opinion

Vladimir Putin instructed the government to “consider organizing” the production of portable gaming devices and consoles in Russia. The parliamentarians are optimistic. However, market participants believe that it is impossible to create a device that is competitive with Western ones.

Total downloads of FreePlay games exceeded 1.5 billion

The publisher and developer of hyper casual games, FreePlay, boasted that he had crossed a new milestone in downloads. A third of the 1.5 billion downloads of his game have been collected over the past year.

The former top manager of Electronic Arts and Kaspersky became CEO of Astrum Entertainment

Tony Watkins, who headed the Russian division of Electronic Arts (EA) for almost 15 years, was appointed head of Astrum Entertainment, a domestic publisher and developer of video games.

SEGA laid off 240 people and parted ways with Relic Entertainment

SEGA continues to restructure. As part of it, the company sold Relic Entertainment, best known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Age of Empires IV and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

DON’T NOD Annual Report: Revenue reached record levels, restructuring started

The French company DON’T NOD has released a preliminary financial report for 2023. We share the main thing from it.

Take-Two Interactive buys Gearbox Entertainment for $460 million

The Swedish Embracer Group holding has indeed decided to sell Gearbox Entertainment, best known for the Borderlands series of games. He entered into a sales agreement with Take-Two Interactive. The amount of the transaction is 4.9 billion Swedish kronor or $ 460 million.

Newzoo: Helldivers 2 is the highest-grossing premium PC and PS5 game by the end of February

The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 in February. We share the main conclusions from the report.

FromSoftware employees will be given stock options for the studio

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation is making a generous gesture. She is going to distribute promotional options worth 5.3 billion yen, or about $35 million at the current exchange rate, to employees of her subsidiary studio FromSoftware.

Putin instructed to organize the production of consoles in Russia and create a cloud platform with games

This instruction was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the government following a meeting on the socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad region.

Phil Spencer: the gaming industry is stagnating, the growth of game budgets is dangerous for exclusives, EGS and other stores may appear on Xbox

Polygon journalists talked with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer about what is happening in the gaming industry and the future of Microsoft’s gaming business. We have collected the main points from the interview.

Last year, the number of Godot engine users doubled in a month amid the Unity monetization scandal

This was told by one of Godot programmers Adam Scott in an interview with journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File.

“The gaming industry deserves to die”: former Dragon Age screenwriter

A few years ago, one of the most discussed issues in the gaming industry was massive recycling. In a conversation with PC Gamer, David Gaider, who in the past was responsible for the scripts of the Dragon Age series games, touched on this topic and stated that the industry still needs to deal with crunches.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 surpassed Helldivers 2 in weekly sales on Steam

The role-playing action game Dragon’s Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom’s novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games – Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.

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