For the gaming industry, March was a quieter month in terms of layoffs than January and February, but hundreds of people were still out of work. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, gaming companies laid off 628 employees last month.

SEGA continues to restructure. As part of it, the company sold Relic Entertainment, best known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Age of Empires IV and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.

The release of Persona 3 Reload was a great success for Atlus. The company announced that the remake of the third part of Persona turned out to be the fastest-selling game in its history.

SEGA has announced that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has become the fastest-selling game in the series. The new Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has crossed the first millionth milestone in a week since its release on January 25.

In a recent report, Sega Sammy said that she achieved great success in the 2023 fiscal year (ended March 31, 2023). Her income hasn’t been that high since at least 2014.

Yesterday, SEGA Corporation announced the restructuring of gaming divisions in Europe, which will affect, in particular, the Creative Assembly. Shortly after, Creative Assembly confirmed that layoffs were planned at the studio.

The Japanese SEGA corporation has decided to restructure — mainly in the European divisions. As part of it, SEGA canceled the HYENAS multiplayer shooter developed by Creative Assembly, and a number of other unannounced games.

SEGA has completed the purchase of the Finnish company Rovio, which created the Angry Birds series of games. The deal cost SEGA €706 million.

SEGA has received all the necessary permits from antitrust regulators to purchase the authors of Angry Birds. This was announced by Rovio in a report for investors.

Last week, an interview with Yukio Sugino, president and Chief operating officer of Sega Group Corporation, was published on the pages of the Japanese gaming site Famitsu. We tell you about the most interesting of the material.

The Japanese company SEGA has become cooler about blockchain games. She suspended the development of her own projects and stopped issuing licenses to create blockchain games for her largest IP.

The Japanese company SEGA is not going to negotiate with Microsoft about the sale of the business. This was stated by the operating director of SEGA Shuji Utsumi (Shuji Utsumi).

SEGA has reduced the staff at Relic Entertainment studio, known for the strategies of Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Age of Empires IV. 121 employees were made redundant.

Game developers continue to form unions. This time, a group of 144 employees of the American division of SEGA announced plans to form an association.

The Japanese company SEGA has made an offer to buy the creators of Angry Birds for € 706 million ($ 775.8 million). Earlier, the media reported that she was ready to pay $1 billion for Rovio.

Morning surprise from The Wall Street Journal. The publication reports that SEGA is close to acquiring Angry Birds developers.

By April 1, SEGA released on Steam a free detective novel The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, in which it is necessary to find out the circumstances of the murder of Sonic. In five days, the game has collected over a million downloads.

SEGA will pay employees more. She announced that on July 1, 2023, she would increase the average monthly salary by 30%.

SEGA announced the success of the new Sonic adventure on the company’s official Twitter account. The figure of 2.5 million takes into account both digital and physical sales of the title.