MY.GAMES announced the creation of MGVC Publishing—a new division that will be part of the MGVC investment structure. This division will focus on providing publishing support to mobile game development studios worldwide.

In 2021, Casey Hudson, former general manager of BioWare and producer of the first installments of Mass Effect, announced the opening of his own studio, Humanoid Origin. It has come to light that three years later, it has ceased to exist.

Today, the Internet Development Institute (IDI) has begun accepting contest applications for the creation of Russian content in the digital environment. Games are one of the key focus areas of the contest.

According to Bloomberg, Sony plans to return to the portable device market with a new, yet-to-be-announced console capable of running PlayStation 5 games. The company is in the early stages of developing this project.

The French studio Shiro Games announced that sales of the tactical RPG Wartales have surpassed one million copies. This figure is only from Steam. Considering other platforms, the game’s sales should be even higher.

Supercell has been actively experimenting with internal processes for over a year. At the Slush 2024 conference, CEO Ilkka Paananen admitted that the company was forced to make changes because it had stopped growing.

The sequel to the popular action RPG Path of Exile 2 has surged into the global top-grossing games on the Steam platform. This was made possible by the recently opened pre-orders.

Although the headquarters of Larian Studios is based in Belgium, the company has branches in other countries. One of them is located in Ireland. Recently, Dublin’s Larian Group Holdings published a financial report revealing the developers’ income from the past year.

In Russia, the issue of issuing distribution certificates for games, similar to those for films, has been raised again. The discussion took place during a roundtable organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation with developers of a domestic gaming console, according to “Kommersant” sources.

Raphael Colantonio believes that Metacritic hinders the creation of complex and risky games, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 became the best-selling game in the U.S. for October, and World of Warcraft turned 20 years old — here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

At the G-Star 2024 exhibition in South Korea, the founder and CEO of Koei Tecmo, Yoichi Erikawa, shared that all executive directors at his company also hold producer positions. He believes this is beneficial both for the games and for the top managers themselves.

On November 21, Star Wars Outlaws officially launched on the Steam store. Within the first 24 hours, the game’s peak online player count did not even reach a thousand.

The number of copies sold of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has surpassed one million, GSC Game World announced. This milestone was reached on the second day after release, even though the shooter is available through the Game Pass subscription.

Sabotage Studio has shared updated player numbers for Sea of Stars. According to the studio, the audience for the turn-based retro RPG has reached 6 million players.

Black Tabby Games announced that Slay the Princess has surpassed the half-million mark in copies sold worldwide. It took the game just over a year to reach this milestone.

The American indie studio Heart Machine has conducted layoffs, as reported by the portal Game Developer.

At the 2024 Golden Joystick Awards ceremony, Sony and Arrowhead announced that Helldivers 2 has been played by over 15 million people across all platforms since its release.

On November 21, Dream Games globally released Royal Kingdom. This is the sequel to the highly successful mobile puzzle game Royal Match, whose revenue exceeds $3 billion.

Gamescom is one of the most prominent exhibitions in the gaming industry, and participating in it becomes increasingly expensive every year. Journalists from GamesWirtschaft have learned how much it will cost to show a trailer during the main broadcast at the Opening Night Live ceremony in 2025.