Lesta Games has announced the launch of a “platform for hosting games.” It is called B.A.S.E. It is assumed that in the future the platform will be able to offer players a large-scale catalog of online PC games.

This was stated by the former marketing director of Pixel Federation and SuperScale Matej Lancaric. He believes that Scopely spends up to $4.5 million per day on user purchases.

The Minetest game engine/platform has a new version. There are few innovations. The main task of the updated version is to draw users’ attention to the game library.

The new role-playing game from Owlcat Games studio may turn out to be one of the most moneyed releases in December. The project started from the fifth place of the top Steam bestsellers, taking into account free projects and Steam Deck. If you do not take them into account, then the game is in second place in terms of earnings per week, second only to the cooperative indie hit Lethal Company.

Immediately after the news of the closure of Fntastic studio, which developed The Day Before, the game was withdrawn from sale. Most likely, it was done by the publisher, MYTONA company.

Just a few days after the scandalous release of The Day Before, Fntastic studio announced its closure. According to the company, it will spend all sales revenue on paying off debts to partners.

Today, the British studio Free Radical Design has closed its doors forever. Dozens of employees told about it on social networks.

Five months after the appearance of Godot 4.1, the open source game engine has a full-fledged new version. It includes more than 1,800 changes made by 359 developers.

If three years ago we were tired of writing about investments, then this year it seems that most of the agenda is layoffs. So it is this time. The Australian studio League of Geeks announced large-scale cuts.

This year, New World Interactive Studio turned 13 years old. It is quite possible that she will not live to see her next birthday.

The game publisher and developer tinyBuild has published an update on the state of affairs. It reveals that the company is “actively considering short-term options to strengthen the balance sheet,” and also confirms staff reductions.

On the night of Monday to Tuesday in Moscow, Rockstar Games published a trailer for the next numbered part of Grand Theft Auto. Now it is one of the central news in the industry, judging by the views on YouTube.

Unofficially, tinyBuild could have carried out a major optimization last week. The company has fired at least a dozen people.

Africa has its own criteria for success in the gaming market. However, the situation is changing rapidly. In a few years, the earnings of local gaming companies will become significant by general industrial standards.

This was stated by Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in an interview with Windows Central.

The next cuts — now at Phoenix Labs, Fortnite records (both in MAU and online), the growth of the user base at Starfield – tell us what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The other day, the RovioCon Google 23 conference was held in Helsinki. One of the reports was read by a representative of Supercell. We share interesting facts from it.

On November 30, the Larian Studios blog on Steam reported that 1.3 million people have played the game since its release on August 3. This allows you to give an approximate estimate of the number of copies of the game sold.

Google and Apple corporations summed up the results of the year and published lists with the best games in their app stores for 2023.