The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” told how things were going with sales of disc editions of console games in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group, which owns many game studios, is switching to economy mode. The company said it was forced to restructure because it had spent too much on purchases and investments over the past few years.

At the beginning of 2023, the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment updated the logo, which caused dissatisfaction with the company Take-Two Interactive. The latter appealed to the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) with a complaint that the new Remedy logo looks too much like the logo of her “daughter” Rockstar Games.

Apex Legends Battle Royale managed to top the weekly Steam sales chart, surpassing Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 and other products at the box office. The last time this happened was almost a year ago — in February 2023.

A year ago, Ubisoft reported that Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope sold worse than expected at the start. Nevertheless, sources of the Video Games Chronicle portal claim that sales of the game for the debut year are comparable to sales of the commercially successful original.

Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has been purchased more than 3 million times worldwide. The fighting game overcame this milestone by January 3, seven months after its release.

The mobile hit MONOPOLY GO! continues to rapidly gain cash. Over the past 30 days, the average daily revenue of the game has been kept at $4.2 million, according to data from the AppMagic analytical platform.

Last year, the number of downloads of games in the Russian Google Play and App Store increased by 4% to almost 3 billion. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the data of the analytical platform data.ai .

The studio Double Loop Games, specializing in mobile games, ceased to exist four and a half years after its opening. This was told on LinkedIn by one of its founders and CEO Emily Greer.

In 2023, 2.58 million PlayStation 5 copies were sold in Japan, according to Game Data Library analysts. The last time any one Sony console had such high annual sales in the country was in 2010 – during the PlayStation Portable era.

Ghost Ship Games studio, which created a cooperative shooter about Deep Rock Galactic space gnomes, presented data on sales, active audience and other indicators of the game.

All six ironSource founders will leave Unity within the next six months. This is reported by the Mobilegamer portal, which has read the letter from Jim Whitehurst, interim CEO of Unity, sent to the company’s employees.

Bloomberg sources claim that the Twitch streaming service is waiting for mass layoffs. According to their information, Amazon, which owns it, is preparing to cut more than a third of Twitch’s employees — about 500 people.

Steam has relaxed its policy regarding games created with the help of artificial intelligence. Now developers can release such games on the site, but only if certain conditions are met.

In a recent report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Unity announced plans to conduct a record round of layoffs. She decided to lay off a quarter of the staff, or about 1,800 people.

The Chinese giant Tencent has become significantly less invested in foreign companies, the GameLook portal reports, citing data from IT Juzi (IT桔子) analysts. In 2023, the holding concluded 37 such deals, which is the lowest figure in the last ten years.

In early December, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the LDPR party, appealed to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation with a proposal to introduce labeling for children’s video games that have loot boxes and, in general, the opportunity to shop. According to the Izvestia newspaper, the ministry did not agree with his idea.

Nintendo named the games that were most actively purchased from the Nintendo eShop by Japanese residents in 2023.

Next year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea will spend 67.9 billion rubles, or about $52.5 million, on subsidies to Korean gaming companies. This is reported by the GameMeca portal.