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On January 31, Konami released Silent Hill: The Short Message is a small horror game in the Silent Hill universe, distributed for free on PlayStation 5. Today, the company announced that it took less than a week for the new product to reach the first million mark in downloads.

Konami has decided to sue the Japanese developer and publisher Cygames. The reason for the conflict was the game Uma Musume Pretty Derby about horse girls, in which Cygames allegedly violated patents belonging to the company.

Tokyo police arrested a 41-year-old Konami employee. He is suspected of attempted murder of his former boss: on April 11, he attacked the head of one of the company’s departments and hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher.

Another Japanese gaming company has started paying employees more. This time Konami announced the salary increase.

On January 18, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel celebrated its first birthday. According to Sensor Tower analysts, during the debut year, the game earned more than any other mobile card battler in the period from January 2022 to January 2023.

The eFootball 2023 football simulator is actively collecting downloads. Konami announced that its mobile version alone has already been downloaded 600 million times.

Konami has announced a new achievement of the card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. It took the project ten months to reach the bar of 50 million downloads.

Konami did not specify when exactly the marketplace will open. Now she is looking for specialists who will help develop both the NFT business and the metaverse direction.

Japanese Konami has released a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2023. The company reported that its revenue increased to $536 million, while operating profit fell to $104 million.

As part of the financial report, Konami recalled that recently its collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel generated 30 million downloads. We decided to see how the project is doing with revenue.

Konami has revealed the results of the fiscal year 2022. It became a record for her — each category of profit (operating, pre-tax and others) was able to reach the highest level for the entire existence of the Japanese publisher.

Japanese publisher KONAMI has started working with the Polish studio Bloober Team, specializing in horror games. The companies are going to “develop selected content together and share their accumulated experience.”

The company plans to spend several hundred million more.

In 2009, Konami canceled the Six Days in Fallujah military shooter about the Iraq War after a barrage of criticism. 11 years later, the development of the game unexpectedly resumed, but with the help of a new studio and publisher. The team is led by former Bungie employees who worked on Halo and Destiny.

Konami’s decision to restructure internally and close several divisions was met with mixed reactions. The company soon clarified that this would not affect game development in any way.In mid-January, an announcement for investors appeared on Konami’s official website.

The Japanese publisher reported for the three fiscal quarters of 2018.

On January 31, the Japanese publisher Konami summed up the financial results of the last three quarters. The period for the gaming division of the company ended in a good plus. A significant merit in this is PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER, the company’s football franchise.

Konami reported half—year revenues of $1 billion, of which $506 million was generated by video games.