Beacon Interactive is going to use options and take over 4A Games and Zen Studios from Embracer Group. This is indicated by a letter from the head of the company Matthew Karch to Saber Interactive employees, an excerpt from which was published in X by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

According to the documents published online, it can be concluded (assumption) that, in fact, Saber Interactive bought itself from the Embracer Group.

2024 will be a difficult year for the US gaming market, predicts analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. He expects Americans to spend less on video games than in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a number of Saber Interactive assets for 2.57 billion Swedish kronor or $ 247 million.

This was announced on the official website of the company by Scopely CEO Javier Ferreira.

It became known about the new investment of The Games Fund. This time, the venture fund invested $ 1.5 million in the Roar Games studio.

Google hosted the Google for Games Developer Summit event. As part of it, the corporation introduced a number of innovations for the Google Play app store.

Discord is becoming a new platform for the distribution of games. The creators of the chat service announced that from March 18, all interested developers will be able to create games that can be played directly in Discord itself. Previously, only selected developers had this opportunity.

Good news. Despite the crisis in the industry, new gaming companies are still emerging. Emanuel Palalic and Garrett Young have announced the launch of a new studio. It’s called Emptyvessel. This is the second such announcement in the last 24 hours.

Veteran console developer Stig Asmussen has announced the launch of his own game studio. It’s called Giant Skull. The studio will develop AAA projects.

The remake of Resident Evil 4 overcame this milestone in just under a year: the game was released on March 24, 2023.

During the spring, Apple promised to release an update that will allow European iOS users to download apps directly from developer websites.

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.