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.

Another news about a company closing down. Scottish Axis Studios, specializing in animation, has gone bankrupt and started business liquidation.

The management of the German studio Flying Sheep Studios, which develops HTML5 games, announced the imminent closure of the studio. It will officially cease operations at the end of the month.

Bohemia Interactive reported that thanks to a recent sale on Steam, the audience for the shooter Arma 3 has grown by more than half a million people. Of these, 100,000 purchased the game on the first day of discounts.

One-third of all developers in the RuStore mobile app store are game developers, VK reports. Currently, the platform hosts over 3,000 game development teams.

In the first half of 2024, residents of the United Kingdom spent almost a third less on video games compared to the previous year. This information was shared by the UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA).

On July 2, Capcom released Resident Evil 7 Biohazard on iOS devices. According to the MobileGamer portal, citing AppMagic data, the game is not popular. In two weeks, it was downloaded about 83,000 times.

BioShock might never have seen the light of day, recalls game designer Ken Levine in a conversation with EDGE magazine. According to him, publishers showed no interest in the first part of the series.

During the week of July 9 to July 16, the highest-grossing project on Steam was PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS. Player expenditures likely increased due to the collaboration with the car manufacturer Lamborghini.