Digital Extremes company will stop publishing games of third-party teams. In particular, she will no longer be a publisher of the Wayfinder MMO action, – the Airship Syndicate studio that developed it will again gain full control over the title.

Unity has summed up the financial results of the third quarter of 2023. She said that compared to last year, her revenue increased by 69%. The growth could have been even greater, but in September, after widespread criticism of the new pricing policy of the engine, its revenues decreased slightly.

In 2018, Google discussed a multimillion-dollar deal with Epic Games. She was ready to invest $147 million in Epic Games in three years if she agreed to publish Fortnite on Google Play. This is stated in the documents disclosed during the trial between the companies.

The Interregional Inspectorate for the Largest Taxpayers No. 7 filed an application to the Arbitration Court against the actions of Denis Kachura, the bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy case of Game Insight in Russia. He allegedly included in the register with the employees of the Russian “daughter” of Game Insight, to whom she owed salaries and severance payments, more people than went to court.

In the USA, a lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Epic Games and some of their affiliated studios. The companies were accused of making games too exciting and aggressively monetizing them in order to earn as much as possible.

In the financial report, Sony announced that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 sales exceeded 5 million copies. The game took this mark 11 days after the release.

Sony announced the results of the second quarter of fiscal 2023 (July-September 2023). Below is a brief summary of the success of the gaming division.

Microsoft has chosen a new head of the Xbox Games Studios division. It was Alan Hartman, who previously headed Turn 10 Studios.

Take-Two Interactive reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30, 2023. It was unprofitable: the company’s net losses immediately increased by 111%.

Chinese fans of the mobile RPG Epic Seven raised $6 thousand for a truck that was supposed to drive around the office of the publisher Smilegate in South Korea for eight hours a day for a week. They wanted to put psychological pressure on the company and force it not to change the pumping system in the game.

The devtodev analytical platform now belongs to the AppsFlyer marketing company. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

On the morning of November 8, journalist Jason Schreier citing sources, he said that Rockstar Games is fully announcing GTA VI this week. The rumors reflected well on the shares of the parent company of Rockstar Games — Take-Two Interactive.

On November 2, Blizzard Entertainment released the Warcraft Rumble mobile strategy for global release. According to the analytical service AppMagic, in the first six days the game earned $ 3.4 million from microtransactions — this is already minus the commission to the stores and taxes.

Finnish studio Nitro Games and Netflix have signed a partnership agreement for €9 million. They agreed that Nitro Games will develop a new game for Netflix and will support it.

G5 Entertainment summed up the financial results of the third quarter of 2023. We chose the main thing from the report.

In 2019, two former developers of the adventure game Night in the Woods, together with a colleague from another gaming company, opened The Glory Society studio. Four years later, the studio announced the suspension and cancellation of its debut game Revenant Hill.

Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros. Wonder has set a record for the fastest sales among the games of the Super Mario series.

A month ago, Keywords Studios terminated contracts with testers who worked on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and other BioWare games. As a result, the testers decided to hold a picket demanding to cancel the dismissals.

Motorsport Games is another gaming company that has decided to carry out mass layoffs. She plans to cut 40% of the staff by the end of the year. This is 38 people.