According to media reports, the development of Concord cost $400 million, IGN uncovered the reasons for the departure of the entire Annapurna Interactive team, and for the first time, the number of concurrent Steam users exceeded 38 million. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Valve has completely revamped the editor used for creating and editing game descriptions in the Steam store. They have named the updated tool “What You See Is What You Get.”

The latest installment from Saber Interactive boasts another achievement. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has surpassed almost all 2024 releases in Europe in terms of copies sold, reports journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry, citing GSD data.

Black Myth: Wukong has become the best-selling game of 2024 on Steam, according to the analytics service VG Insights. Until recently, this title was held by Palworld.

Yandex has a production center called “Plus Studio”. Yesterday, on September 19th, this center announced that video games have become another strategic direction for them.

In early September, Sony removed Concord from sale. The publication Kotaku attempted to understand how this situation affected Firewalk Studios, the developer of the game.

On September 19, God of War: Ragnarök was released on PC nearly two years after its initial launch on PlayStation consoles. According to the SteamDB service, the game attracted 22,967 concurrent users at launch on Steam.

A month ago, the South Korean company KRAFTON announced the acquisition of the studio Tango Gameworks, which Microsoft previously attempted to close. In an interview with Game Developer, KRAFTON CEO Changhan Kim provided more details about the deal.

Piers Harding-Rolls, a specialist from the analytical firm Ampere Analysis, shared his assessment of the initial sales of Star Wars Outlaws during the GI Microcast podcast. According to his calculations, by August 31, the game had sold approximately 800,000 copies.

The studio Pocketpair, known for developing Palworld, announced that it will contest the patent lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The studio aims to prove its innocence and in doing so, protect other indie developers from attempts to stifle their creative ideas.

Square Enix has announced a new milestone for Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a free-to-play remake of Final Fantasy VII, which was released on mobile devices in September 2023 and on Steam in December 2023. According to the company, the game downloads have recently surpassed 9 million.

Playtika is expanding. It has signed an agreement to acquire the Israeli studio SuperPlay, known for mobile games Dice Dreams and Domino Dreams.

Pocketpair Studios is facing a legal battle. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court, accusing the developers of Palworld of infringing on their patents.

Yesterday, Behaviour Interactive announced the cancellation of the cooperative PvE shooter Project T set in the Dead by Daylight universe. It has now been revealed that the studio working on the game, Midwinter Entertainment, has shut down.

On October 1st, the WN x LEVEL UP Summit will take place in Kuala Lumpur. This intimate event is designed to bring together top executives from international gaming companies and representatives of the local industry.

Everdale is a city-building simulator set in a fairy-tale world with a focus on cooperative gameplay. It was initially developed by Supercell, but in October 2022, the company decided to shut down the project, and a few months later, the game was acquired by the studio Metacore. However, it turned out that Everdale will not be released after all.

By mid-2024, Microsoft sold 28.3 million Xbox Series units, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from the analytics company Aldora. This is significantly fewer than the sales of the PlayStation 5.

Former BioWare studio producer Mark Darrah stated that he does not understand why some players consider Dragon Age: Inquisition a commercial failure. According to him, the role-playing game has sold over 12 million copies to date.

On September 17, 2024, Electronic Arts (EA) held a large-scale event for investors, where it revealed its future plans. We’ve highlighted the company’s key points.