Product Analyst at MY.GAMES, Lev Kobeleva, and Senior Game Designer at Sad Cat Studios, Alexander Barabanov, have introduced SteamTrender — an analytical service that allows users to explore the popularity, revenue, and other metrics of tags on Steam.

We continue to publish the results of the salary survey conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter. This publication focuses on the income levels of Russian-speaking game designers.

Publisher Tilting Point is conducting a new major round of layoffs. The company intends to lay off about 90 people—this accounts for 20% of Tilting Point’s total workforce.

Today, on September 2, employees of the French studio Spiders have gone on strike due to poor working conditions. It was revealed that developers from the Kylotonn studio decided to join them in the protest.

From September 12 to 13, one of Cyprus’s largest cities will host the autumn session of the WN Business Conference for Game Developers and Publishers. More than 800 participants and 40 speakers are expected, including representatives from Google, Unity, Playrix, G5, Belka Games, Nexters, Unfrozen, Nekki, Owlcat Games, and many other companies.

The European division of Nintendo has a new leader. Stephan Bole, who served as the president of Nintendo of Europe, has left the company.

The strategy game Crusader Kings III is celebrating its fourth anniversary. On this occasion, Paradox Interactive announced that in the past year, 1,567,446 new players have experienced Crusader Kings III.

We continue to publish the results of the salary survey, conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter. This publication focuses on the income levels of Russian-speaking game artists.

August was a relatively calm month for the gaming industry in terms of layoffs. The Game Industry Layoffs portal reported a total of 271 specialists laid off in gaming-related companies last month.

Ballistic Moon is yet another game studio whose staff has faced layoffs. This was reported by Eurogamer, citing posts from laid-off employees on social media.

The game director of Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma has left Capcom, an analyst estimated Concord’s sales at 25,000 copies, and the co-founder of miHoYo suggested that game developers consider changing their profession due to the advancement of AI. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The tax reliefs for companies in the gaming sector in China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany were discussed by the lawyers at REVERA.

This week, the Finnish mobile studio Lightneer officially shut down. It had been in operation for nine years.

Russian gamers have increasingly started purchasing retro games on Avito, reports the newspaper Kommersant, citing data from the marketplace. Comparing the first half of 2022 with January to June 2024, sales of old console games doubled, and sales of old PC games grew sixfold.

In recent years, Japan has been one of the priority markets for the Chinese giants Tencent and NetEase. They have been actively investing in Japanese game studios in hopes that they will produce hits. According to Bloomberg sources, both companies have not achieved the desired outcomes and are now re-evaluating their strategy.

We continue to publish the results of the salary survey we conducted from April to May 2023 by chapters. Today’s publication discusses the income levels of Russian-speaking game developers.

When Ubisoft initially released XDefiant, the free-to-play shooter attracted a large number of players. Insider Tom Henderson discovered that three months post-launch, the audience’s interest in the project has significantly waned.

The creators of Black Myth: Wukong have signed an exclusive agreement with Sony’s gaming division, claims Forbes journalist Paul Tassi. According to him, this is why the game has yet to appear on Xbox consoles.

Remedy Entertainment announced a deal with film company Annapurna Pictures, the “parent” of game publisher Annapurna Interactive. They have become strategic partners.