The French publisher Gameloft is going to liquidate a branch in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca. He will close the doors forever after 14 years of work.

Tencent has published a report for the first quarter of 2024. The Chinese holding company as a whole showed excellent results in terms of revenue and profit, but everything was not smooth for the gaming division.

In January-March 2024, the PlayStation 5 consoles sold significantly better than the Xbox Series, according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.

The Polish Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (UOKiK) suspects that a number of digital gaming platforms are hindering the development of competition. It has launched a preliminary investigation.

The Dutch Consumer and Markets Authority (ACM) has imposed two fines on Epic Games totaling over 1.1 million euros. The agency concluded that the company used unfair commercial practices in Fortnite in relation to young players.

Marc Whitten is preparing to leave Unity. The company announced this in a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In the week from May 7 to May 14, Hades II earned the most money on Steam as a premium project. However, in the general sales chart, which also takes into account the performance of free games, it took second place — the first went to Counter-Strike 2.

During the presentation of the financial report to investors, Sony announced that Helldivers 2 surpassed all other games published by it in terms of the number of copies sold in the three months since its release.

Sony has released a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. We have chosen the main thing about the results of the company’s gaming division.

Sony has announced that from June 1, its gaming division will have two heads at once — Hideaki Nishino and Herman Hulst.

How much will it cost to develop a mobile game today and what marginality you should expect from it,” Dmitry Yaminsky, co—founder of Azur Games, said in his column.

The game Little Kitty, Big City about the adventures of a kitten in a big city has become another indie hit. The developers of Double Dagger Studio announced that it had crossed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold 48 hours after release.

At the end of 2023, ByteDance announced a restructuring in the gaming division: she decided to close the publisher Nuverse and sell some assets, including the Moonton studio, known for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Bloomberg, citing Core Esports, reported that the company recently partially changed its plans and refused to sell Moonton.

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.