Kenichiro Yoshida, the CEO of Sony, mentioned in an interview with the Financial Times that the company intends to more actively invest in the production of a greater number of original projects, including games.

The developer and publisher of the Hero Wars series has reported financial results for the second quarter of 2024. Here’s what the report reveals.

In mid-August, a controversy erupted around the roguelike sandbox Soulash 2, centered on the game’s romantic relationship system. Some gamers were dissatisfied that same-sex characters could not form romances.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” shared which disc editions of games were most frequently purchased by Russians in the first six months of 2024.

Last summer, Zynga announced its first NFT game — Sugartown. A year later, the company got rid of it and sold “all products with assets” to the startup D20 Labs.

We continue to publish the results of our salary survey chapter by chapter, conducted from April to May 2023. This current publication focuses on the income levels of Russian-speaking mid-level game managers (by which we mean professionals such as Project Managers, Product Managers, and Producers).

Aldora is a new analytics company launched in early 2024 by Joost van Dreunen, the founder of the now-closed SuperData. The company recently published a forecast for the interactive entertainment market for the year 2025.

The sad story of Concord quickly came to an end. An announcement appeared in the official PlayStation blog regarding the cessation of sales and server shutdown for the game.

We continue our series of publications on games seeking investments or a publisher. Up next is material on the soft-launched word game, Word Masters.

The analytical service VG Insights continues to monitor the performance of the Chinese hit Black Myth: Wukong. It has released the latest statistics for the Steam version of the game.

On August 30, the full release of Star Wars Outlaws took place. The new game from Ubisoft received rather mediocre scores from both the press and users, which negatively impacted the shares of the French company.

The leaders of BRICS countries should consider creating a common game store, believes Dmitry Smith, President of the Russian Computer Sports Federation. He voiced this proposal at the Eastern Economic Forum.

Recently, it was noticed online that the studio behind the Until Dawn remake underwent a wave of layoffs, as reported in social media posts by former employees. Ballistic Moon has now officially announced that it has indeed parted ways with a portion of its staff.

For the week of August 27 to September 3, Black Myth: Wukong returned to the top of the best-selling products list on Steam. However, the rest of the chart saw significant changes. Notably, the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 surged to second place.

Product Analyst at MY.GAMES, Lev Kobeleva, and Senior Game Designer at Sad Cat Studios, Alexander Barabanov, have introduced SteamTrender — an analytical service that allows users to explore the popularity, revenue, and other metrics of tags on Steam.

We continue to publish the results of the salary survey conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter. This publication focuses on the income levels of Russian-speaking game designers.

Publisher Tilting Point is conducting a new major round of layoffs. The company intends to lay off about 90 people—this accounts for 20% of Tilting Point’s total workforce.

Today, on September 2, employees of the French studio Spiders have gone on strike due to poor working conditions. It was revealed that developers from the Kylotonn studio decided to join them in the protest.

From September 12 to 13, one of Cyprus’s largest cities will host the autumn session of the WN Business Conference for Game Developers and Publishers. More than 800 participants and 40 speakers are expected, including representatives from Google, Unity, Playrix, G5, Belka Games, Nexters, Unfrozen, Nekki, Owlcat Games, and many other companies.