Square Enix has published a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.

The Xbox president explained the closure of Bethesda studios, the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima was withdrawn from sale in almost 200 countries, Unity completed the “reboot” of the company, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

App2Top brought together the heads of Hit‘n’run Digital Studio, KPD, FlyinDogs and SERIES to talk about the situation in the visual novel market. We discussed the cost of development, the competitiveness of the market and the myths associated with the niche.

Another financial report was published by the South Korean company KRAFTON. She summed up the results of the first quarter of 2024.

Thomas Mahler, co-founder and CEO of Moon Studios, shared his thoughts on the AAA segment of the gaming industry. He believes that large companies such as Microsoft and Sony should abandon exclusivity. Otherwise, their business risks losing stability.

G5 Entertainment has published a financial report for January-March 2024. The company’s revenue and profit continued to decline, but its G5 Store performed well.

On May 8, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the foundations of state policy in the field of historical education. One of the points of the document concerns video games.

Vietnamese gamers may have been restricted access to Steam. This is reported by the SteamDB service, which drew attention to mass complaints from users from Vietnam.

Electronic Arts (EA) has reported for fiscal year 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024.

Four Bethesda studios cease to exist at once. This was reported by IGN and Bloomberg with reference to a letter from the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty.

The developers from the Chinese studio Lilith Games announced this in honor of the game’s birthday. The AFK Arena recently turned five years old.

In the first three months of 2024, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of 2.97 million euros, the dev portal reports.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax Inspectorate. This is 42.8% less than last year.

There are permutations at the top of the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. Counter-Strike 2, which was in the lead for seven weeks in a row, lost the first place to the extraction shooter Gray Zone Warfare.

Nintendo published its financial report for the fiscal year 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024. We have highlighted the main points from it.

On the evening of May 6, Hades II was released in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store (EGS). It is not known how things are in EGS, but thanks to analytical services, the situation in Steam is clear. There, the game has already attracted twice as many simultaneous players as the first Hades.

In March, Slavania, the debut game by FrostLeaf Games studio, published by Game Art Pioneers, was released on Steam. We talked with Vladimir Averyanov, the game designer of the project, about how the metroidvania was developed based on Russian fairy tales.

Polish studio Donkey Crew announced that Bellwright was bought 150 thousand times. The game achieved this result in 12 days: it was released in early access on Steam on April 23, 2024.

The TIGA Association wants to achieve greater government support for British game developers. She called on the UK government to introduce a special tax deduction for indie teams in the country – Independent Games Tax Credit.

Players in Helldivers 2 will still not necessarily have to link Steam and PlayStation Network (PSN) accounts. Sony has announced that it has listened to the community and lifted this requirement.