Capcom has established another subsidiary. This is the Taiwanese company Minimum Studios, which specializes in creating animations for games.

During the conference “Gaming Industry” (GI), there will be a showcase of game projects. Here are the participation conditions.

According to data from the Game Industry Layoffs portal, the scale of layoffs in the gaming industry is gradually decreasing. By their calculations, gaming companies laid off a total of 632 employees in June.

Journalists from dev.by looked at how many employees are registered at the Lithuanian branches of IT companies with Belarusian origins. It was found that all the gaming companies they studied currently have fewer employees than in January.

The multiplayer tank shooter World of Tanks Blitz has turned ten years old. In an interview with VentureBeat, MS-1 Studios (Wargaming) General Manager Thaine Lyman shared that the game has joined the ranks of “unicorns,” with its total revenue surpassing one billion dollars.

Ubisoft laid off dozens of employees in Toronto, Steam set a new concurrent user record during its summer sale, Helldivers 2 lost 90% of its audience on Steam — here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

One Piece Treasure Cruise is a mobile RPG developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment, inspired by the popular manga One Piece. In May, the game celebrated its tenth anniversary. On this occasion, analysts from Sensor Tower shared the project’s metrics.

Specialists from the legal company REVERA, Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, discussed what “gold farming” is and whether it can be legally combated.

Valve has added a new chart to Steam, which compiles the 100 most popular games on the portable PC, Steam Deck. The ranking considers the number of unique users and whether the game is among the most popular for each specific Steam Deck owner.

Investor optimism towards Tencent is growing, and along with it, the company’s market value is increasing. Bloomberg calculated that since January 1, 2024, the Chinese giant’s market capitalization has risen by 28%, or $91 billion.

Gameloft continues to downsize. A month after announcing plans to close its office in Cluj-Napoca, the company has parted ways with a “significant portion” of staff from its office in Toronto.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot officially revealed the audience size of the free-to-play shooter XDefiant. According to him, the game has attracted over 11 million users.

Metacritic has summarized the interim results for 2024. It published a list of the most critically acclaimed games released in the first half of the year.

The hacker group BlackSuit reported hacking the internal network of Kadokawa, the parent company of the developers of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. According to the perpetrators, they gained access to 1.5 TB of confidential data.

Unions are becoming more prevalent in the gaming industry. This time, developers from Bethesda Game Studios Montreal have announced their intention to create a labor union.

Irish startup LinQ has closed a new funding round. The company received $2.3 million from investors, which it plans to spend on assisting mobile developers in entering the Real Money Gaming (RMG) market.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a company specializing in Web3 gaming, might become a public company once again. Its co-founder Yat Siu stated that the company is considering an IPO in the second half of 2025.

Shift Up Studio plans to sell their shares at the top end of its set price range during the IPO, sources tell Reuters. They expect to raise 435 billion won ($313 million) from investors after going public.

Recently, Playground Games announced the decision to delist Forza Horizon 4 from online stores. The racing game will no longer be available for sale starting December 15. The announcement shook the community, resulting in the game’s peak online player count on Steam reaching record levels.