The Chinese news agency Caixin reported that the action RPG Black Myth: Wukong has sold over 4.5 million copies across all platforms. Of these, Steam users purchased 3 million copies.

The company Starbreeze has announced its financial results for the first half of 2024. We have highlighted the key points from the report.

Black Myth: Wukong continues to actively attract players on Steam. On the evening of August 20th, the Steam version of the game reached an online peak of 2.15 million players.

Capcom has announced a collaboration with Japan’s Kindai University. Its students will have the opportunity to take a course where they will learn about game development on the RE Engine—the engine behind Devil May Cry 5, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and the latest Resident Evil games.

We are beginning to publish the results of the salary survey conducted by us from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter. The first of these publications is about relocation from Russia. In this chapter, we share the percentage of Russian game developers who have moved abroad. We mention which specializations, levels, and age groups were most affected by relocation.

The company UNIGINE has released a new version of its engine — 2.19. The update was released eight months after the launch of version 2.18.

Starting today, we will begin publishing the results of our salary survey, conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter on a daily basis. Alongside this, we are launching a new salary survey.

The best-selling game on Steam for the week of August 13 to August 20 was, as expected, Black Myth: Wukong. It topped the chart for both paid and free titles.

Ninja Theory reported for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. The year was successful for the studio, even though it did not release any games during that period.

We continue our series on games seeking investments or publishers. Up next is a feature on Valeria Klimenko’s project, an adventure game titled Anemone.

On the morning of August 20, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King, Black Myth: Wukong, was released on PC and consoles. The game immediately became a new phenomenon on Steam, attracting a huge number of people upon launch.

The ways to top up your Steam wallet have expanded. The gaming platform VK Play announced the launch of this service.

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).