Last week, the marketing company AppsFlyer released a report on the state of mobile game advertising for the year 2023. Here are some facts from the report.

The creators of the open-source engine Godot have released version 4.3. It contains more than 3,500 changes made by 521 developers.

The creators of the free multiplayer survival game Once Human announced that their game has been downloaded 10 million times worldwide.

On August 16, 2024, Valve began charging Russian tax residents an additional 30% on sales in Steam within the United States. This is in addition to the standard store commission of the same 30%.

Tim Sweeney announced that many exclusive deals made by the Epic Games Store turned out to be poor investments. Ubisoft conducted new layoffs, and the founders of Playrix topped the list of the wealthiest individuals in the UK gaming industry. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In August 2020, Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their mobile app stores. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told Game File journalist Stephen Totilo in an interview that over the years of the game’s absence from the stores, his company lost about $1 billion in potential revenue from Fortnite.

Epic Games has announced the launch of the mobile version of the Epic Games Store. The store has been released globally on Android and in European Union countries on iOS. It was made possible to launch it on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

We are starting to publish video presentations (along with transcripts) from the “Game Industry” conference that took place in July. The first presentation is by Alexander Vasiliev, a partner manager at Yandex Advertising. His talk is dedicated to the main mistakes that mobile game developers make when integrating ad monetization.

The second advertising service in a week has stopped working with Russian companies. On August 15, Apple blocked Search Ads accounts registered in Russia.

On August 15, Crytek released a major update for Hunt: Showdown, which transitioned the shooter to the CryEngine 5.11 engine and significantly altered many aspects of the game. The title has even changed—it’s now called Hunt: Showdown 1896. As a result, the game’s concurrent player count on Steam rose to record levels.

The analytics company Niko Partners has released a report on the state of the gaming market in the countries that are part of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)*. Below are the main findings.

Warner Bros. Discovery and NetherRealm Studios announced that Mortal Kombat 1 has surpassed 4 million copies sold.

Adam Williams, the lead writer of Detroit: Become Human and Star Wars Eclipse, has left Quantic Dream. Williams worked at the studio for nearly ten years, having joined Quantic Dream in January 2015.

The Chief Strategy Officer of Tencent, James Mitchell, informed investors that Apple is seeking a share of the revenue from mini-games within the WeChat app. The companies are already discussing the terms.

Epic Games has supported AltStore PAL developers, who created an alternative app store to the App Store in EU countries. They invested in them as part of the Epic MegaGrants program.

In 2024, residents of Russia spend an average of 11.5 hours per month on mobile games. This is 5 hours and 20 minutes more than in 2023. These figures were shared by the DTF portal, citing a study by the telecommunications company Yota*.

The South Korean studio Shift Up released its report for the second quarter of 2024. It announced that it achieved the highest quarterly revenue in its history.

Last week, it was noted that Valve is working on a new filter for user reviews on Steam that hides reviews lacking meaningful content, such as jokes and ASCII art. Now, the company has confirmed the rumors.

Embracer Group published a report for the first financial quarter, which ended on June 30, 2024. Here are the key points from the document.