The analytical service AppMagic calculated that mobile gamers worldwide have spent over $3 billion on games from the Turkish company Dream Games. 99% of the spending was on Royal Match, with less than 1% on the soft-launched Royal Kingdom.

In the first quarter of 2024, Android users from Russia encountered malware disguised as games twice as often as during the same period last year. These data were disclosed by “Kaspersky Lab” in an interview with the newspaper “Vedomosti”.

Bungie won a lawsuit against cheat sellers for Destiny 2, Activision is being sued over a school shooting in the US, and rumors suggest 2K has obtained a license to develop games under the FIFA brand — here’s what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Abiotic Factor — a science fiction survival game inspired by Half-Life. In an interview with PC Gamer, the founder of Deep Field Games, Geoff Keene, mentioned that the game surpassed 300,000 copies sold in less than a month: it was released in early access on Steam on May 2.

Analysts at Famitsu calculated that Nintendo Switch sales in Japan exceeded 32.9 million units. This allowed the portable console to set a new sales record in the country.

The cloud gaming market is still far from widespread success, report GlobalData analysts. According to their estimates, in 2023, 184 million people, or 6% of all gamers, subscribed to cloud gaming services.

The Chinese company NetEase also reported for the first quarter of 2024. Below are the key points from the report.

The free-to-play shooter XDefiant by Ubisoft is showing good results, claims Tom Henderson.

11 bit studios reported in their quarterly report that they are satisfied with the initial sales of INDIKA.

Polish 11 bit studios reported for the first quarter of 2024. It earned more than analysts expected but did not avoid losses.

The British authorities followed the footsteps of the European Union and approved a bill aimed at making the digital platforms market more competitive. This bill specifically targets Apple and its App Store.

On May 9, solo developer mino_dev released the action-roguelike Rabbit and Steel on Steam. In a conversation with GameDiscoverCo, he shared the game’s performance metrics.

The Swedish holding company Fragbite Group has filed for bankruptcy for the studio Fall Damage. They reported that the developers are in a dire financial situation as they were unable to find a publisher for the free-to-play shooter Alara Prime.

The company “ROSA” wants to create a domestic gaming console and software for it, sources from the newspaper “Izvestia” claim. According to their information, it is working on a portable console in the spirit of the Steam Deck.

Based on the results of 2023, only one hyper-casual novelty made it into the top 50 most downloaded mobile games, reports the analytical service AppMagic. This is Burger Please!, published by the South Korean company Supercent. Representatives of Supercent shared with AppMagic what they are doing to promote the game.

Hardly anyone writes or talks about the genre of mobile games called “color-by-numbers” (coloring, paint by number). Even so, games in this genre collectively generate about 30 million installs per month. What is happening in this niche and is it worth entering? We discussed this with Beresnev Games, ZiMAD, and Belka Games.

On the evening of May 22, Street Fighter 6 was close to breaking its record for concurrent players on Steam. The fighting game was played by 70,202 users simultaneously. This was only 371 players fewer than the peak achieved right after its release.

Johan Ekström will resign from his position as CFO of Embracer Group on September 1, 2024. This was announced by Embracer Group in its latest annual report.

Embracer Group published its financial report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. Here are the key points.