Representatives of the service for game developers Balancy announced the receipt of investments in the amount of 500 thousand dollars from the “veterans of the gaming industry”.

Sensor Tower analytical company has released a report on the situation on the market of mobile hybrid casual games in 2023. We share the key findings.

Steam users are actively pre-ordering Dragon’s Dogma 2. On the eve of the release, the game reached the sixth place in the weekly Steam bestseller chart. If you remove free games and Steam Deck from the top, then Dragon’s Dogma 2 will get the second place.

Hicham Nouhou, head of Tencent’s publishing division in Russia and the CIS, estimated the Russian gaming market at this amount. He announced his data at a meeting of the working group of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on esports.

There is one less person in the Battlefield team. The network noticed that the creative director of the series, Craig Morrison, left the DICE studio in February 2024.

Capcom shared another achievement of Monster Hunter: World in honor of the anniversary of the series — in March 2024, Monster Hunter turned 20 years old.

At the end of February, the AppMagic analytical service prepared a study of the casual games market for mobile devices. We tell you about the most important of them.

Shift Up Studio, known for Goddess of Victory: Nikke and the upcoming Stellar Blade, is about to become a public company. She has applied for a listing on the Korean Stock Exchange.

Thomas Mahler, CEO of Moon Studios, said that the Ori dilogy has become one of the most successful franchises in the metroidvania genre in history.

Bobby Kotick, who left the post of CEO of Activision Blizzard in December 2023, is considering buying TikTok amid the threat of a ban on the social network in the United States. Sources of The Wall Street Journal claim that he has already contacted the executive director of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, to “express interest.”

Apple restored the Epic Games developer account on iOS, the Deviation Games studio was closed, the source code of the qdEngine engine appeared in the public domain, on which the quests “Brothers Pilots 3D” and “Dwarf Nose” were created, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In mid-February, OpenAI introduced a new generative network that is capable of generating very high-quality video by text format. It’s called Sora. We talked about its prospects in the gaming industry with teams that have already implemented other neural networks into their pipeline. Our experts include representatives of Charisma, Playkot, Lost Lore, Skywaylab and ZiMAD.

In February, the publisher of hyper casual games Supersonic Studios turned four years old. In honor of this, the company announced that to date it has released more than 100 titles, which have accumulated a total of 4.98 billion downloads.

The European regulator intends to look into the situation with the deletion of the Epic Games developer account on iOS. The agency will check whether Apple has violated EU legislation.

Electronic Arts (EA) CEO Andrew Wilson at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media Conference & Telecom said that his company is actively developing technologies of generative artificial intelligence. EA hopes that with their help it will be possible to speed up game development and increase performance.

Analytical company data.ai She made up the top 50 mobile publishers in whose applications users spent the most money in 2023.

Apple has closed a new Epic Games developer account just a few weeks after it was opened. With it, the company wanted to launch the Epic Games Store on iOS in the European Union and place Fortnite there.

The Yandex analytical service has received a new tool. It is called “LTV and Outflow Predicates”. The service predicts revenue from the existing audience and identifies users who are going to leave the application.

Based on the data of the AppMagic analytical platform, the App2Top editorial board has prepared material on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.