The media company Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired another gaming team. It announced the purchase of Player First Games, the studio that developed the fighting game MultiVersus.

On June 20, Level Infinite and TiMi Studios — subsidiaries of Tencent — released the hit MOBA Honor of Kings outside of China. The game quickly gained popularity in new markets.

Last week, the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, announced the introduction of a mini-app store within the messenger. The store will be presented by the end of the month.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced during a Q&A session following the latest quarter that the company has invested more in marketing Star Wars Outlaws than for any other game it has ever released.

The head of the Polish publishing house PlayWay, Krzysztof Kostowski, wrote on X that players are showing considerable interest in the crime scene cleanup simulator Crime Scene Cleaner. The game has 490,000 additions to wishlists.

Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters stated at a second-quarter 2024 investor meeting that the service’s gaming division is growing rapidly. Netflix already has over one hundred games in its catalog, with an additional 80 in development.

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.