The analytical company Newzoo studied the success of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 in February. We share the main conclusions from the report.

The Japanese Kadokawa Corporation is making a generous gesture. She is going to distribute promotional options worth 5.3 billion yen, or about $35 million at the current exchange rate, to employees of her subsidiary studio FromSoftware.

This instruction was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the government following a meeting on the socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad region.

Polygon journalists talked with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer about what is happening in the gaming industry and the future of Microsoft’s gaming business. We have collected the main points from the interview.

This was told by one of Godot programmers Adam Scott in an interview with journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File.

A few years ago, one of the most discussed issues in the gaming industry was massive recycling. In a conversation with PC Gamer, David Gaider, who in the past was responsible for the scripts of the Dragon Age series games, touched on this topic and stated that the industry still needs to deal with crunches.

The role-playing action game Dragon’s Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom’s novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games – Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.

Microsoft has “big problems” with retaining publishers on Xbox consoles, according to journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry.biz . According to him, some large gaming companies do not see prospects for Xbox support.

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from the Russian indie studio Dieselduck, which is developing a game about traveling on the airship “Nephelia: Through the Clouds“.

Backpack Battles has become another indie hit. The game’s creators announced on social media that it took only two weeks of early access on Steam to sell half a million copies.

The network noticed that game designer Shinji Mikami has opened a studio called Kamuy. Information about this appeared on the official website of Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered.

On the night of March 22, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam and consoles. The game instantly garnered thousands of angry reviews.

The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.

GDEV gaming company (formerly Nexters) has summarized the unaudited financial results of both the fourth quarter and the entire 2023. We share the main thing from the report.

The analytical company Circana has prepared a report on the state of the American gaming market for February 2024. Below are the main conclusions.

At the beginning of the week, Sensor Tower announced the purchase of an analytical company data.ai . It became known that after the deal data.ai She cut about 200 employees.

Epic Games held a presentation of State of Unreal at the GDC 2024 developer Conference. During it, the company demonstrated the capabilities of the next version of the Unreal Engine and shared a number of news on the development of Fortnite and its business in general. We have collected the most important announcements.

The visual novel market is diverse. There are applications with storefronts, there is a large segment of horror and no less large — short stories “for adults”. But within the framework of the current round table, we decided to dive into such a niche as visual novels for web platforms. Our experts and guides in this niche were representatives of Dats Games, Arcanum Games and Yandex Games.

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Electronic Arts (EA), Miniclip and Jagex misled users by not telling their game ads about the presence of loot boxes in those games. Companies have been banned from using this advertisement in the country.