After three months of striking, the SAG-AFTRA, the American actors’ guild, has decided to resume discussions with major game developers. The parties will meet at the negotiation table on October 23.

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO, the first new installment in the main fighting game series in 17 years, continues to show excellent results on Steam. During the week of October 8 to October 15, the game confidently took first place in the premium products chart and second in overall revenue, second only to Counter-Strike 2. This surge indicates significant interest in the franchise even after a long hiatus.

Bandai Namco Entertainment has joined the long list of gaming companies that are laying off employees en masse, according to Bloomberg sources. Due to the peculiarities of Japanese legislation, it has reportedly resorted to a specific practice.

Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco announced that their new 3D fighting game, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO, sold 3 million copies within the first 24 hours of release.

Microsoft has resolved a dispute with American gamers who had been attempting to block the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion for almost two years.

From January 1 to September 30, 2024, indie games earned a total of $4 billion on Steam, according to a report from the analytics company VG Insights. This accounts for 48% of the total revenue of all games on Valve’s store during this period.

Alan Hartman, one of Microsoft’s veterans, has decided to leave the corporation. At the end of November, he will step down from his role as head of Xbox Game Studios and retire.

The indie publisher shared information about sales and the number of wishlists for some of its games. Over the past 12 months, the company’s published games have sold a total of 4.5 million copies.

The developer of PUBG has announced an investment in the young Spanish studio, EF Games. The details of the deal, including the amount and conditions, have not been disclosed.

Two months ago, President Studio and PlayWay released the crime scene cleanup simulator Crime Scene Cleaner on PC. The CEO of PlayWay, Krzysztof Kostowski, shared on social media the achievements of the game during this time.

Sensor Tower released a report on the state of the mobile gaming market in Southeast Asia for the first half of 2024. Here are the numbers and trends.

William Volckmann, a staff member of the American research institute Institute for Private Capital, attempted to determine how piracy affects game revenue. To achieve this, he analyzed 86 games with Denuvo protection released on Steam between September 2014 and December 2022.

On the evening of October 13, the peak online player count for Metaphor: ReFantazio on Steam reached a record high for the game—85,961 people. As a result, it claimed the fifth spot for most concurrent players among games tagged with JRPG on the platform.

Late last week, it was revealed that Game Freak, the developer of the Pokémon game series, fell victim to a cyberattack. It is believed to be the largest breach in the franchise’s history. Game Freak has already confirmed the hack, stating that it took place in August 2024.

The newspaper “Kommersant” reported that a new industrial association, the “Association of the Gaming Industry” (AGI), has started operating in Russia.

Former developers of Disco Elysium have opened another studio, Steam has started warning users that they’re purchasing only a game license, and estimates suggest the Until Dawn remake on PlayStation 5 attracted fewer players than Concord. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The analytical company Circana presented a report on the state of the U.S. gaming market for August, highlighting key trends and the best-selling games among American gamers.

Genshin Impact continues to impress with its financial results. According to analysts from Niko Partners, the mobile version of the game has generated $5 billion in China alone since its launch in 2020. Considering international markets, its total mobile revenue could reach $10 billion by 2025.

China is the largest market for Palworld in terms of the number of game users. This was recently mentioned by John Buckley, the community manager of Pocketpair studio, in an interview with the portal Game Rant.