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.

Remedy Entertainment has released a financial report for the fourth quarter and the entire year 2023. The company’s losses increased as it actively invested in game development.

Viktor Kudryavtsev, Content Delivery Manager at Wargaming and author of the Game Producer course, shared his understanding of production risks.

Nekki has updated the Cascadeur character animation tool to version 2024.1. Briefly tell us what has changed.

The giant 2024 Unity Gaming Report has been released. It is dedicated to trends in game development. If possible, we will briefly tell you about the main thing from the study.

On March 19, the PC version of Stardew Valley received patch 1.6 with several hundred changes and a large portion of new content. The release of the update shook up the community, and as a result, online games on Steam grew to an all-time high of 146,159 people.

Ubisoft showed the developments on a project called NEO NPC at the GDC developer conference. As part of it, the company is experimenting with the creation of non-player characters who, thanks to generative AI, are able to conduct a meaningful dialogue with players.

The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker “bagel” Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.

This figure was announced by the South Korean studio Neowiz. The audience of the gloomy soulslike about the adventures of Pinocchio overcame the milestone of 7 million people six months after the release of the game: Lies of P was released on September 18, 2023.