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News April 3, 2024

Judging by the numbers, the release of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile was not financially successful. But is it true?

On March 21, the mobile version of Call of Duty: Warzone was released. According to AppMagic, the game earned $2.7 million in the first two weeks with 15 million downloads. For a project of this level, the release may seem commercially weak.

News April 3, 2024

The audience of Content Warning exceeded 6 million people

Landfall Games Studio has announced that the free distribution of the cooperative horror Content Warning on Steam has exceeded all expectations. According to her calculations, the number of owners of the game exceeded 6.2 million people per day.

News April 3, 2024

Riot Games and Moonton settled the League of Legends plagiarism dispute eight years later

Riot Games has dropped its claims against Shanghai-based Moonton studio, best known for MOBA Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. According to GamesIndustry, she agreed to sign a settlement agreement and withdraw all claims.

News April 3, 2024

The authors of Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke increased their annual profit six times

The South Korean studio Shift Up summed up the financial results of 2023. She reported a sharp increase in income.

News April 2, 2024

Curran Games Agency: Fighting games lead in median revenue among VR games in the Oculus Quest Store

Also among the leaders are games with mixed reality support and simulators,” the report of the agency company Curran Games Agency says.

Analytics April 2, 2024

Newzoo: “Over the past two years, the amount of time spent by users in PC and console games has fallen by 26%”

The analytical company Newzoo has published a large-scale study on the state of the PC and console games market at the beginning of 2024. We share the key points from it.

News April 2, 2024

The audience of Content Warning exceeded 4.5 million people in less than a day thanks to the distribution in honor of April 1

Every year on April 1, the Landfall Games studio releases a new unusual project. In 2024, this is a cooperative horror Content Warning in the spirit of Lethal Company, which has already become a hit on Steam.

News April 2, 2024

AFK Journey is a new hit by Lilith Games. In the first week, the game earned more than 2.5 million dollars

On March 27, Lilith Games released the AFK Journey role-playing game. In the first week, her revenue reached the level of 500 thousand dollars per day. In total, according to AppMagic, the game earned $2.5 million in seven days of sales.

News April 2, 2024

The authors of NASCAR 21: Ignition have serious financial problems. They can be closed

The management of Motorsport Games reported that the company is running out of money. The available funds will most likely not be enough until the end of 2024. Therefore, now the top management is considering options for its future and does not exclude that Motorsport Games will cease to exist soon.

News April 2, 2024

InvestGame has published a database with funds that invest in the gaming industry

InvestGame analysts decided to help game developers, as well as esports and Web3 companies with the search for financing. They have posted a table with specialized funds in the public domain.

News April 2, 2024

Total sales of Dragon’s Dogma 2 exceeded 2.5 million copies. The game dropped to sixth place in the weekly Steam chart

Capcom announced that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.

News April 2, 2024

Ubisoft laid off 45 more employees as part of the restructuring

Ubisoft continues to reduce staff. This time, she laid off several dozen employees from the global publishing and Asia-Pacific divisions.

Investor/publisher wanted April 2, 2024

Earworm Studio is looking for an investor for mobile survival in a sci-fi setting

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investments or a publisher. Next in line is material from the outsourcing studio Earworm Studio, which is trying itself as a developer of the isometric survival Vesta Survival (aka Space Stars).

News April 1, 2024

Only 4% of Fortnite game developers earn more than $20,000 a year

Two weeks ago, Epic Games announced at the GDC 2024 developer conference that it had paid $320 million over the year to users who created their islands in Fortnite. Naavik analyst and senior business manager of the Xbox publishing division, David Taylor, looked at how this amount was distributed among developers.

WN Academy April 1, 2024

WN Academy has announced a course on b2b sales. The course is taught by Yulia Lebedeva

In April, as part of the WN Academy educational project, a course dedicated to business sales in the gaming industry is being launched. The course is taught by Yulia Lebedeva, COO and partner of WN Media Group.

News April 1, 2024

Legend of Mushroom is a new mobile hit. The daily revenue of the game reaches 2.5 million dollars

In November 2023, Chinese Joy Net Games released Legend of Mushroom – idle RPG on mobile devices, in which the user plays as mushroom warriors. By the end of March, the project began to earn about $ 2.5 million every day from in-game purchases (IAP) and generate more than 200,000 downloads.

Analytics April 1, 2024

Mistplay: “41% of gaming whales plan to reduce their spending and pay less in games”

The loyalty service for mobile players Mistplay has published a study on the behavior of paying users. We tell you about the key points of the work.

News April 1, 2024

In March, the number of layoffs in the gaming industry exceeded 600 people

For the gaming industry, March was a quieter month in terms of layoffs than January and February, but hundreds of people were still out of work. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, gaming companies laid off 628 employees last month.

News April 1, 2024

The main thing for the weekend (March 30-31)

CD PROJEKT spoke about microtransactions, the creators of Dredge donated $ 100,000 to protect whales and dolphins, Jim Ryan said that the PlayStation 5 is moving towards becoming Sony’s most successful console — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News March 29, 2024

Hasbro has allocated $ 1 billion for the development of AAA games

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, decided to invest more in video games after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!. In an interview with GameSpot, Dan Ayoub, head of digital product development, mentioned that she has distributed $1 billion between her subsidiary studios working on AAA-level projects.