In March 2024, it became known that the head of the upcoming Marathon shooter development, Chris Barrett, left Bungie after 25 years with the company. Bloomberg found that Barrett was fired due to inappropriate behavior.

Work on the next game in The Witcher franchise, code-named Project Polaris, is in full swing, according to CD PROJEKT’s CEO Michał Nowakowski. He stated that the project would soon enter the full development phase.

The Polish group of companies, CD PROJEKT, reported their financial performance for the first six months of 2024. This half-year period was exceptionally successful for them.

The Polish publisher and developer 11 bit studios has released its financial results for the first half of 2024. Here are the key points from the report.

Many locations in Black Myth: Wukong replicate real-world places, primarily from Shanxi Province in northern China. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), while tourists typically pay little attention to this province, it has recently been experiencing a tourism boom.

We continue to publish the results of our salary survey chapter by chapter, which we conducted from April to May 2023. This publication focuses on the salary levels of the average Russian-speaking gaming specialist living in Kazakhstan.

Employees of the French studio Spiders will hold a strike against their own management on September 2-3. At least 44 out of 95 workers will participate.

On August 27, the indie sandbox adventure game in dungeons, Core Keeper, left Steam Early Access after two and a half years. According to SteamDB, the game reached a peak of 31,597 online players on Valve’s platform on its release day.

The mobile publisher SayGames seems to have finally decided to close its Belarusian division. The company has initiated the liquidation process of its regional legal entity LLC “Kazhyhulni”.

We continue the cycle of publications about games seeking investments or publishers. Up next is a piece about an extraction shooter by the KATANA8 team.

Control has turned five years old. In honor of this, Remedy announced that more than 19 million people have now interacted with the game.

The Polish publisher PlayWay reports a new success. According to the company’s head, Krzysztof Kostowski, the crime scene cleanup simulator Crime Scene Cleaner has sold over 200,000 copies.

The prices for standard editions of modern games are too low, according to Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios. In his opinion, the price tags fail to keep up with the rising costs of game production.

No project predictably managed to displace Black Myth: Wukong from the top of the highest-grossing products on Steam. Thanks to a successful release, Game Science’s game once again surpassed everyone in weekly revenue, leading the charts for both paid and free titles.

On August 14, Supercell released a major update for Squad Busters, which added a new world and characters to the game, as well as changed some gameplay and monetization aspects. As noted by the MobileGamer portal, thanks to this, the game’s daily revenue from in-app purchases (IAP) increased significantly.

Coin Master mobile slots continue to grow in revenue. The analytics company Sensor Tower has calculated that the game has earned over $6 billion since its launch.

We continue to publish the results of the salary survey conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter. This publication focuses on the salary levels of the average Russian-speaking game industry specialist living in Armenia.

What’s happening in the hyper-casual games market (hereafter HC games) at the moment, shared Sergey Martinkevich, Publishing Lead at Azur Games.

The concept of success in the gaming industry has dramatically changed over the past 20 years, says Brian Fargo, one of the founders of Interplay.