The studio Bungie has announced significant layoffs. A total of 220 employees, or roughly 17% of the workforce, will lose their jobs.

On May 14, 2024, Thekla studio released Braid, Anniversary Edition — a re-release of the cult puzzle-platformer. The title’s sales were disastrous.

The head of VK Play, Alexander Mikheev, discussed the platform’s development strategy in the podcast “Gamedev Kitchen.” He stated that VK Play’s current goal is to become the “second screen for gamers.”

Developer Garry Newman, who created the sandbox game Garry’s Mod, informed IGN about the resolution of a DMCA complaint his game received due to Skibidi Toilet.

LiveOps expert from Balancy, Mikhail Khripin, has prepared a free guide on working with in-game shops. This 43-page document thoroughly covers the elements and intricacies of setting up such stores. In turn, we are sharing an excerpt from the book in Russian, focusing on increasing conversion rates.

Last week, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced a strike against major gaming companies, including Electronic Arts (EA). EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson assured investors that at least in the near future, his company will not be significantly affected by the protests.

Electronic Arts (EA) is pleased with the release of the college football simulation game EA Sports College Football 25. According to the company, 5 million unique users registered in the game during its debut week.

Electronic Arts (EA) has released its report for the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which ended on June 30. All key metrics of the company have declined.

Game Pass subscribers have been spending significantly more time playing games from the Fallout franchise since the premiere of the Amazon Studios-created series in April. This information was shared by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the presentation of their financial report.

Microsoft has published the report for the fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year ending on June 30, 2024. We have selected the key figures from the gaming division.

Analysts from Niko Partners studied the platform preferences of gamers from Japan and South Korea. They discovered that a significant portion of these gamers play on more than one platform.

Revenue in the gaming market of Japan and South Korea is declining, according to a report by the analytical company Niko Partners. It is forecasted to reach $29.2 billion in 2024, which is 2.9% less than the previous year.

The analytics company Sensor Tower released a report on the mobile app market based on the results of the second quarter of 2024. We have selected the main findings related to games.

Skibidi Toilet is a meme YouTube series about singing toilets with human heads. Garry Newman, the creator of the sandbox game Garry’s Mod, stated that his project was recently accused of copyright violation due to the presence of games inspired by Skibidi Toilet, created from the same assets as the series.

The service “Yookassa” and the AGAVA studio (who assisted in the development of the games “Vasilisa and Baba Yaga,” BUKI, and Cocktail Island) analyzed the spending of Russian gamers in games from January to June 2024. Below are the findings from the study.

Over the past week, the top-10 chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam has changed little. As last week, the first place went to Counter-Strike 2, and the second place to PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS.

The M.Video-Eldorado Group shared data on console sales in Russia for the first half of the year. According to them, the demand for consoles in the country is growing at a tremendous pace.

MY.GAMES announced the sale of CEBC and its services DonationAlerts and Boosty. They will become part of the business structure owned by the founder of Broadsmart Group, Pavel Kharaneka.

The local indie studio The Bratans has announced a sequel to the game “Rusy vs. Lizards.”.