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.

A new indie hit has appeared on Steam—Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game, a parkour simulator by German solo developer Michel Losch. In a conversation with game expert Simon Carless, the game’s creator shared how the project managed to achieve success.

79.5% of Chinese PC gamers use Steam to play premium games, according to a report by the analytical company Niko Partners. Moreover, the overwhelming majority prefer the international version of the platform.

Another game studio has ceased to exist. It has become known that Wicked Games, which was working on the creature-collecting MMO Spherix, has been shut down.

Continuing our series of publications where professionals from gaming companies talk about their careers. The new article in the series is about Core Game Designer. Dmitry Aborilov, the lead core gameplay designer at Nekki, has detailed the position.

There is an ongoing decline in the market for virtual and augmented reality headsets, reports the analytics company IDC. They found that in the first quarter of 2024, 67.4% fewer VR/AR headsets were sold compared to the beginning of 2023.

Eight months ago—on November 2, 2023—Blizzard Entertainment released the mobile strategy game Warcraft Rumble. As noted by the portal MobileGamer, since then the game has earned over $39.1 million from IAP.

Steam is experiencing a boom in cooperative projects, according to a report by the analytical service VG Insights. Last year, 799 cooperative games were released on the platform — the highest number since at least 2018.

Arc System Works Studio announced that the audience for the fighting game Guilty Gear -Strive- has surpassed 3 million players. The game took a little over three years to reach these numbers.