The analytical company Circana has released a report on the American gaming market for May. Below are the main highlights.

On March 22, South Korean authorities passed an amendment to the gambling law requiring developers to disclose the probability of items dropping from loot boxes in games. According to the country’s Game Rating and Administration Committee, 1,255 games were subject to the law by July, but not all of them complied with the requirements.

Piranha Bytes has closed down, sources from the CD-Action portal claim. According to their information, the studio shut its doors at the end of June.

Less than a week remains until the first session of the “Gaming Industry” conference. We detail what to expect from the event in our article.

Saber Interactive announced that it will not resume sales of the off-road simulator SnowRunner in Russia. The company was unable to reach an agreement with its licensing partners.

The CEO of publishing house Hooded Horse, Tim Bender, does not agree that Manor Lords has fallen into the “early access trap.” Earlier, this opinion was voiced by Hinterland Studio head Raphael van Lierop, who pointed to the rare release of updates and a decline in the game’s online player base. According to Bender, none of this is a problem for Manor Lords.

At the end of June, the analytical service Sensor Tower found out that a month after its release, the Chinese version of Dungeon & Fighter Mobile earned $270 million solely on the App Store. Now, analysts at Niko Partners have revealed the amount of the game’s monthly revenue, including Android stores.

The new game by miHoYo couldn’t dethrone Dungeon & Fighter Mobile as the highest-grossing mobile game on the Chinese market on its release day, according to Sensor Tower data. Analysts calculated that on July 4, Zenless Zone Zero earned two and a half times less in China than Dungeon & Fighter Mobile.

Apple has allowed Epic Games to launch its own mobile app store on iOS in Europe, New York spent over $59,000 on console games for inmates, Zenless Zone Zero downloads exceeded 50 million — here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The launch of the Epic Games Store on iOS devices in EU countries is facing difficulties. Epic Games claims that Apple has already twice denied its release of a proprietary mobile app store due to button designs.

A few days ago, Devolver Digital announced plans to release 23.9 million new shares on the stock exchange and to earn 7.9 million pounds sterling ($10 million) from their sale. It appears that they have exceeded their investment attraction goal.

The creators of Dying Light ended 2023 with an operational loss of 90 million zloty (22.7 million dollars), reports the Polish publication Puls Biznesu, citing Techland’s financial report. This is the worst result in the company’s history.

“Vintorog” is a game developer and publisher founded by employees of IThub Group and HSE. The company announced it has raised 12 million rubles from an angel investor.

CyberConnect2 Studio and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment have announced that the action RPG Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has been purchased over 8 million times worldwide. It has been four and a half years since the game’s release—it came out on January 17, 2020.

On July 4, the studio miHoYo released its new action RPG, Zenless Zone Zero, on PC, PlayStation 5, and mobile devices. We referred to data from the analytics service AppMagic and looked at how the mobile version of the project performed at launch.

Based on the AppMagic database, the App2Top editorial team has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month — Manage Supermarket Simulator, Lost Light: Weapon Skin Treat, and Dungeon & Fighter Mobile.

All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) surveyed 1,600 adult Russians about video games. Below are the main results of the study.

AMD could have gone bankrupt without the PlayStation 4 console, claims Renato Fragale, Senior Director of Client Business at AMD. He mentioned this in the description of his LinkedIn profile.

VR enthusiast Bradley Lynch discovered in the Steam database a mention of Waydroid — an open-source emulator that allows running Android applications on Linux devices. According to him, Valve may be working on adding Waydroid support to the portable PC Steam Deck.