The cooperative survival game Abiotic Factor is another successful project in the portfolio of publisher Playstack, which previously released the hit game Balatro. The game entered early access on Steam on May 2, 2024. Since then, it has been purchased over 600,000 times.

American Foretold Studios, known for the Tollan Universe game series, has been failing to pay its employees for months. Several former studio employees discussed this with Game Developer.

Russian gaming companies have become more active in hiring, writes the newspaper “Kommersant” citing data from HeadHunter. From January to July 2024, they published 5.5 thousand job vacancies on the platform—23% more than in the first seven months of 2023.

Cataclismo — a real-time strategy game with Tower Defense elements — has set a sales speed record among games by Digital Sun studio. According to the developers, it crossed the 100-thousand-copies-sold mark faster than any other game.

Sony reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. Below are the performance metrics for the company’s gaming division.

Information has emerged about the next intimate gamedev event by WN Media Group. It will take place exactly two weeks from now in Cologne, ahead of the major gaming exhibition Gamescom. Among the guests will be representatives from Tencent, Epic Games, DECA Games, Behaviour Interactive, Unity, and Newzoo.

The Battle Cats — a real-time mobile strategy game in which armies of cats attempt to conquer the world. It was released in November 2012 by the Japanese company PONOS Corporation. According to Sensor Tower analysts, the game has since earned over $700 million.

On August 5th, the Tokyo Stock Exchange experienced a crash, during which the stocks of Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, and many other Japanese gaming companies dropped significantly. By the next day, they had recovered most of the losses.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. This time, we feature material on the St. Petersburg studio Selfish Snakes, which is working on a first-person shooter with a roguelike meta called Hell over Me.

Warner Bros. Discovery Holding may sell part of WB Games, sources at Financial Times claim. The company aims to reduce its net debt in this way, which as of March 30, 2024, had exceeded $39 billion.

Steam users are actively pre-ordering Black Myth: Wukong ahead of the project’s release. During the week of July 30 to August 6, the action RPG about the Monkey King earned more money on the platform than any other premium game.

Square Enix published its financial report for the quarter ending June 30, 2024. We have highlighted the main points from the document.

The studio Aggro Crab announced a new success for the soulslike game about a hermit crab, Another Crab’s Treasure, having been purchased half a million times in three and a half months.

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Experts from AppMagic discussed the successful and not-so-successful decisions made by Supercell during the launch of Squad Busters. Here we share the Russian version of the analysis.

August 5 began with a crash for global stock markets. The decline started in Asia and was particularly painful in Japan. As analyst Serkan Toto from Kantan Games noted, the financial storm did not spare Japanese gaming companies.

The creators of Lineage have published their financial report for the second quarter of 2024. Here are the details.

Zenless Zone Zero is the most successful gacha game in July in terms of mobile revenue, reports GachaRevenue portal. According to their data*, the mobile version of Zenless Zone Zero grossed $99.8 million in its debut month.

The publisher and developer of mobile games Jam City, which has Jurassic World Alive, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, and Cookie Jam in its portfolio, has conducted a new major round of layoffs. The company reduced its workforce by 10%, or approximately 85 employees.