The studio Rumble Entertainment, specializing in mobile and browser games, has closed its doors after 13 years of operation. This was reported by its former employees on social media.

Microsoft responded to FTC criticism regarding the increase in Game Pass pricing, over 200 employees at Bethesda unionized, and the head of Digital Extremes stated that gaming companies need to have more faith in live-service games. Here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

At the conference “Gaming Industry” held on July 11, a competition for the best game development took place. Here’s who won.

The analytical company Newzoo has named the console and PC games with the highest revenue and number of copies sold for the period April-June 2024. The rankings accounted for game statistics from only six markets: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany.

The technology company InMobi, specializing in mobile advertising, has decided to go public. It plans to list on the stock exchange in India in the second half of 2025.

Two weeks have passed since the global release of Zenless Zone Zero. Using the analytical service AppMagic, we looked at the performance of miHoYo’s new mobile version during this period.

Developers from Ironwood Studios announced that the car survival game Pacific Drive has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide. It took the game just under five months to reach this milestone — Pacific Drive was released on February 22, 2024, for PC and PlayStation 5.

Take-Two Interactive now considers review bombing of games to be a financial and reputational risk. The company added it to its list of risks two months ago, but it’s only now that people online are taking notice.

In the quarterly report for April-June 2024, Ubisoft also shared updates on some of its games. We have compiled the most notable facts.

Ubisoft published a report for the first fiscal quarter ending on June 30, 2024. Below are the main financial highlights of the company.

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues its attempts to challenge Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. On July 18, it supplemented its appeal with a statement criticizing the increase in Game Pass prices and the addition of a tier that excludes games at launch.

The studio Cyberia Nova received 100 million rubles from the Institute for Internet Development (IID) to expand the educational mode for “Smut” called “Time of Troubles.” This was reported by “Kommersant” referring to sources.

Mobile gamers have spent $5 billion on games from the Turkish company Peak Games, according to the analytical service AppMagic. Almost the entire amount came from two projects — match-3 games Toon Blast and Toy Blast.

In the first six months of 2024, around 80 million copies of PC and console games were sold in Europe, reports GamesIndustry citing GSD data. This is 1.6% less than last year.

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.