Starting today, we will begin publishing the results of our salary survey, conducted from April to May 2023, chapter by chapter on a daily basis. Alongside this, we are launching a new salary survey.

The best-selling game on Steam for the week of August 13 to August 20 was, as expected, Black Myth: Wukong. It topped the chart for both paid and free titles.

Ninja Theory reported for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. The year was successful for the studio, even though it did not release any games during that period.

We continue our series on games seeking investments or publishers. Up next is a feature on Valeria Klimenko’s project, an adventure game titled Anemone.

On the morning of August 20, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King, Black Myth: Wukong, was released on PC and consoles. The game immediately became a new phenomenon on Steam, attracting a huge number of people upon launch.

The ways to top up your Steam wallet have expanded. The gaming platform VK Play announced the launch of this service.

Last week, the marketing company AppsFlyer released a report on the state of mobile game advertising for the year 2023. Here are some facts from the report.

The creators of the open-source engine Godot have released version 4.3. It contains more than 3,500 changes made by 521 developers.

The creators of the free multiplayer survival game Once Human announced that their game has been downloaded 10 million times worldwide.

On August 16, 2024, Valve began charging Russian tax residents an additional 30% on sales in Steam within the United States. This is in addition to the standard store commission of the same 30%.

Tim Sweeney announced that many exclusive deals made by the Epic Games Store turned out to be poor investments. Ubisoft conducted new layoffs, and the founders of Playrix topped the list of the wealthiest individuals in the UK gaming industry. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In August 2020, Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their mobile app stores. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told Game File journalist Stephen Totilo in an interview that over the years of the game’s absence from the stores, his company lost about $1 billion in potential revenue from Fortnite.

Epic Games has announced the launch of the mobile version of the Epic Games Store. The store has been released globally on Android and in European Union countries on iOS. It was made possible to launch it on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

We are starting to publish video presentations (along with transcripts) from the “Game Industry” conference that took place in July. The first presentation is by Alexander Vasiliev, a partner manager at Yandex Advertising. His talk is dedicated to the main mistakes that mobile game developers make when integrating ad monetization.

The second advertising service in a week has stopped working with Russian companies. On August 15, Apple blocked Search Ads accounts registered in Russia.

On August 15, Crytek released a major update for Hunt: Showdown, which transitioned the shooter to the CryEngine 5.11 engine and significantly altered many aspects of the game. The title has even changed—it’s now called Hunt: Showdown 1896. As a result, the game’s concurrent player count on Steam rose to record levels.

The analytics company Niko Partners has released a report on the state of the gaming market in the countries that are part of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)*. Below are the main findings.

Warner Bros. Discovery and NetherRealm Studios announced that Mortal Kombat 1 has surpassed 4 million copies sold.

Adam Williams, the lead writer of Detroit: Become Human and Star Wars Eclipse, has left Quantic Dream. Williams worked at the studio for nearly ten years, having joined Quantic Dream in January 2015.