The Helldivers 2 cooperative shooter has been leading the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam since the beginning of February, but it lost ground in the week from March 12 to March 19. In the general chart, which takes into account the Steam Deck and free games, it was bypassed by Counter-Strike 2.

HTC wants to attract more developers to the Viveport virtual reality app store. She announced that she would temporarily reduce the commission amount from 30% to 10%, such conditions will be in effect until the end of the year.

Valve has added a new set of family features to the beta version of the Steam client, allowing users to share access to games – family groups. They replaced Steam Family Sharing and the family browsing feature.

Consolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .

The publisher of Playstack and the developer LocalThunk have announced the new success of the indie card hit Balatro. They reported that the game took its first mark of one million copies sold in a little less than a month since its release: its release took place on February 20, 2024.

Epic Games has announced that the Epic Games Store client will stop supporting Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from June 2024. It will also drop support for 32-bit Windows 10.

Where to start working on the combat system, as well as what formulas to use, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the indie studio Vengeance Games and author of the course “Fundamentals of game Design“.

According to Bloomberg, Sony has decided not to produce the PS VR2 VR headset until it sells out the accumulated stocks of devices in warehouses.

The creators of the business social network Linkedin want to increase user engagement through embedded games. The signs that the company is working on games were found in the platform code by enthusiast Nima Owji.

Vedomosti newspaper discovered in the SPARK-Interfax database that in October 2023 Mikhail Akulov, one of the founders and CEO of the Hobby World board game publishing house, registered Novodel LLC. According to the description, the company specializes in the development and publication of video games.

According to analysts, sales of Helldivers 2 exceeded 8 million copies, Something Wicked Games studio laid off most of its employees, Steam again updated the record for peak online, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

This was stated by Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe in an interview with Bloomberg. He added that he had not negotiated the sale of the Microsoft studio — speculation about the corporation’s possible interest in buying Pocketpair appeared shortly after the successful release of Palworld.

Grom Social Enterprises has agreed to purchase Arctic7, a studio consisting of Sperasoft veterans.

Alyona Zhuravleva, who previously held the post of HRD in the studio, shared her experience of adapting novice managers in Glera Games with App2Top.

Clash Mini is another game that failed to reach the high standards of Supercell. The Finnish company announced that it will shut down Clash Mini servers at the end of April and remove the title from mobile app stores.

Valve has published a list of games that had the largest daily active audience on the Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024.

A few years ago, Valve employees decided to calculate the commercial efficiency of the company in terms of the ratio of net profit per employee per year and hour. They found out that in 2018, Valve surpassed such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in this indicator.

At the end of February, Electronic Arts announced a new stage of restructuring and the decision to lay off 670 people. According to IGN, one of the “victims” of the changes in the company was the Respawn Entertainment studio.

The new Aspyr remaster did not meet expectations.