Developers from Ironwood Studios announced that the car survival game Pacific Drive has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide. It took the game just under five months to reach this milestone — Pacific Drive was released on February 22, 2024, for PC and PlayStation 5.

Take-Two Interactive now considers review bombing of games to be a financial and reputational risk. The company added it to its list of risks two months ago, but it’s only now that people online are taking notice.

In the quarterly report for April-June 2024, Ubisoft also shared updates on some of its games. We have compiled the most notable facts.

Ubisoft published a report for the first fiscal quarter ending on June 30, 2024. Below are the main financial highlights of the company.

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues its attempts to challenge Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. On July 18, it supplemented its appeal with a statement criticizing the increase in Game Pass prices and the addition of a tier that excludes games at launch.

The studio Cyberia Nova received 100 million rubles from the Institute for Internet Development (IID) to expand the educational mode for “Smut” called “Time of Troubles.” This was reported by “Kommersant” referring to sources.

Mobile gamers have spent $5 billion on games from the Turkish company Peak Games, according to the analytical service AppMagic. Almost the entire amount came from two projects — match-3 games Toon Blast and Toy Blast.

In the first six months of 2024, around 80 million copies of PC and console games were sold in Europe, reports GamesIndustry citing GSD data. This is 1.6% less than last year.

Exactly one week from now, the organizers of the WN Conference will host a collaboration with ChinaJoy, the largest gaming exhibition in Asia. On July 25 in Shanghai, the industry event WN x ChinaJoy International Summit will take place. We share the details of the event and program in our material.

Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski investigated which genres produced the most “hits”—games with a thousand or more reviews*—on Steam during the first half of 2024.

Gaming marketing expert Chris Zukowski examined how many new titles released in the first half of 2024 on Steam became “hits.” That is, they received at least a thousand reviews* on the platform. There were not many.

The analytical company InvestGame studied the situation in the gaming deals market in the second quarter of 2024. It released a report with data on private investments, M&A, and public offerings.

A new game development studio officially opened in Sweden. It’s called Blue Scarab Entertainment. It was founded by a group of industry veterans who previously worked on Helldivers 2, World of Warcraft, Star Stable Online, Battlefield, and Age of Conan.

It appears that NetherRealm Studios has decided to exit the mobile gaming market. Several former employees of the studio wrote on social media that the mobile team has been disbanded.

After a small break, we continue our series of publications in which gaming company professionals talk about their professions. The new article in the series is about a 3D artist. Dmitry Murzaev from Glera Games has shared detailed insights about the position.

The head of the mini-games segment at WeChat, Li Qing, revealed fresh statistics about the platform at the WeChat Open Class event. Below are the key figures.

On July 11, the conference “Gaming Industry” debuted in St. Petersburg with the support of App2Top. Representatives from companies such as VK, Astrum Entertainment, Cyberia Nova, HeroCraft, Lesta Games, Overmobile, and many others attended the event.

Video games are one of the fastest-growing sectors in the entertainment industry, according to a report by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). It predicts that by 2028, the gaming market will grow by more than 47% compared to 2023.

Developers from Double Dagger Studio shared with GameDiscoverCo that the kitten adventure game Little Kitty, Big City has been a tremendous success for the studio. With the help of Game Pass alone, the game has been played by over 2 million people.