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News May 27, 2024

Sales of Songs of Conquest have reached 500,000 copies.

The developer studio Lavapotion reported the sales results of their fantasy strategy game, Songs of Conquest. They have surpassed the threshold of 500,000 copies.

News May 27, 2024

Wuthering Waves, the “Genshin Impact killer,” earned nearly $10 million on smartphones in just five days.

On May 22, 2024, the Chinese company Kuro Games released the role-playing gacha game Wuthering Waves on PC and smartphones. We referred to data from the AppMagic service and took a look at the initial results of the mobile version of the project.

News May 27, 2024

The average spending on games in RuStore has more than tripled in a year.

Users of RuStore have started spending significantly more on games, reported Oleg Afanasyev, the Product Director of RuStore, during the “Russian Internet Forum 2024”.

News May 27, 2024

The head of Larian Studios: during the development of Baldur’s Gate 3, we had to crunch, but only a little

At the Digital Dragons conference, Larian Studios head Swen Vincke acknowledged that while creating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s staff sometimes had to work overtime. However, the crunch was significantly less compared to the work on previous games.

News May 27, 2024

“M.Video-Eldorado”: In the first quarter of 2024, Russians spent more on purchasing consoles than in the entire year of 2022.

Spending by Russians on consoles continues to grow, according to the retail network “M.Video-Eldorado.” In the first quarter of 2024, it increased by 104% year-on-year to 12.5 billion rubles.

News May 27, 2024

AppMagic: User spending in Dream Games’ titles has surpassed $3 billion

The analytical service AppMagic calculated that mobile gamers worldwide have spent over $3 billion on games from the Turkish company Dream Games. 99% of the spending was on Royal Match, with less than 1% on the soft-launched Royal Kingdom.

News May 27, 2024

In Russia, the number of cyberattacks through Android games has doubled.

In the first quarter of 2024, Android users from Russia encountered malware disguised as games twice as often as during the same period last year. These data were disclosed by “Kaspersky Lab” in an interview with the newspaper “Vedomosti”.

News May 27, 2024

The Main Events of the Weekend (May 25-26)

Bungie won a lawsuit against cheat sellers for Destiny 2, Activision is being sued over a school shooting in the US, and rumors suggest 2K has obtained a license to develop games under the FIFA brand — here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News May 24, 2024

The cooperative survival game Abiotic Factor has been purchased 300,000 times.

Abiotic Factor — a science fiction survival game inspired by Half-Life. In an interview with PC Gamer, the founder of Deep Field Games, Geoff Keene, mentioned that the game surpassed 300,000 copies sold in less than a month: it was released in early access on Steam on May 2.

News May 24, 2024

The Nintendo Switch has become the best-selling console in Japan of all time.

Analysts at Famitsu calculated that Nintendo Switch sales in Japan exceeded 32.9 million units. This allowed the portable console to set a new sales record in the country.

News May 24, 2024

Research: Only 6% of all gamers play cloud games

The cloud gaming market is still far from widespread success, report GlobalData analysts. According to their estimates, in 2023, 184 million people, or 6% of all gamers, subscribed to cloud gaming services.

News May 24, 2024

In the first quarter of 2024, NetEase earned $3 billion from games.

The Chinese company NetEase also reported for the first quarter of 2024. Below are the key points from the report.

News May 24, 2024

Insider: Over 3 Million People Have Played XDefiant

The free-to-play shooter XDefiant by Ubisoft is showing good results, claims Tom Henderson.

News May 24, 2024

Sales of INDIKA met 11 bit studios’ expectations.

11 bit studios reported in their quarterly report that they are satisfied with the initial sales of INDIKA.

News May 24, 2024

11 bit studios report: revenue growth, operating losses, and hope for the success of Frostpunk 2 and The Alters

Polish 11 bit studios reported for the first quarter of 2024. It earned more than analysts expected but did not avoid losses.

News May 24, 2024

The British Parliament has endorsed a bill requiring Apple to allow the installation of apps from sources other than the App Store.

The British authorities followed the footsteps of the European Union and approved a bill aimed at making the digital platforms market more competitive. This bill specifically targets Apple and its App Store.

News May 23, 2024

Rabbit and Steel — the new indie hit. The game has been purchased 126 thousand times in two weeks.

On May 9, solo developer mino_dev released the action-roguelike Rabbit and Steel on Steam. In a conversation with GameDiscoverCo, he shared the game’s performance metrics.

News May 23, 2024

Fall Damage, a studio founded by DICE veterans, has gone bankrupt.

The Swedish holding company Fragbite Group has filed for bankruptcy for the studio Fall Damage. They reported that the developers are in a dire financial situation as they were unable to find a publisher for the free-to-play shooter Alara Prime.

News May 23, 2024

Media: Creators of Russian OS Rosa Fresh are working on a gaming console

The company “ROSA” wants to create a domestic gaming console and software for it, sources from the newspaper “Izvestia” claim. According to their information, it is working on a portable console in the spirit of the Steam Deck.

News May 23, 2024

Supercent shared strategies for promoting the hyper-casual hit Burger Please!

Based on the results of 2023, only one hyper-casual novelty made it into the top 50 most downloaded mobile games, reports the analytical service AppMagic. This is Burger Please!, published by the South Korean company Supercent. Representatives of Supercent shared with AppMagic what they are doing to promote the game.