What should be in a pitch to make it intriguing to a potential partner? Andrey Rybin, the Head of Operations at Astrum Entertainment, shared insights on this topic in his column for App2Top.

The South Korean company Com2uS, known for the Summoners War game series, has carried out large-scale layoffs. This was reported in the financial statement for the second quarter of 2024.

The South Korean company KRAFTON reported its performance for the first half of 2024. This period has become a record for the company on several metrics.

The AdSense advertising service will soon cease to operate in Russia completely. Google has sent emails to Russian AdSense account holders warning them about the upcoming deactivation of their accounts.

Deadlock is a PvP shooter allegedly being developed by Valve. Although the company has not officially announced the project or initiated open testing, thousands of people are already playing Deadlock.

In April 2018, Jam City released a role-playing game in the Harry Potter universe called Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery on mobile devices. According to analysts from Sensor Tower, as of today, the project’s gross revenue has exceeded half a billion dollars.

In May 2024, Microsoft announced the closure of four game studios, including Tango Gameworks. It has now come to light that Tango Gameworks will continue operations as the South Korean company KRAFTON has acquired it from Microsoft.

Research has shown that in 2023, the revenue from the gaming peripheral market exceeded $10 billion, Fallout: London set a record for daily downloads on GOG, and its creators are considering opening their own studio. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

We haven’t published any articles about code yet. This material, dedicated to the syntax of LINQ, is our trial run along with programmer Dmitry Starokozhev, who has worked on games like War Robots, Everbright, and Fableborne. Incidentally, on September 25th, he is starting a course called “Diving into Unity.”

Developers from Keen Games announced that the survival game Enshrouded has already been played by 3 million people. The game reached this milestone in less than eight months: it was released in early access on January 24, 2024.

PlayStation Store users may soon be allowed to leave written reviews for games. This feature is already being tested, according to Reddit user cusman78.

The law firm Semenov&Pevzner has prepared a comprehensive report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry over the past six months.

Remedy Entertainment has released its report for the first half of 2024. Here are the highlights.

The mobile gaming market in Russia is stagnating in terms of downloads, reports “Vedomosti” citing data from the analytics platform data.ai. In the first half of 2024, game downloads from Google Play and the App Store in the country totaled 1.183 billion, 2.3% less than a year ago.

Last fall, a group of Russian deputies proposed defining at the state level which industries are considered creative and how to regulate them. Yesterday, on August 8, the relevant bill was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Take-Two Interactive has reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which ended on June 30.

The studio Second Dinner announced a long-term strategic partnership with the Irish startup W4 Games, founded by veterans of Godot. They aim to help build an ecosystem around the Godot engine.

Nexon announced that the multiplayer shooter THE FINALS has surpassed 20 million players. The game reached this milestone eight months after its release: it was launched on December 8, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.

Alongside the release of the financial report, Nexon announced a new business strategy. The company has revised its approach to working with franchises in an attempt to significantly increase their potential.