We continue the cycle dedicated to projects that are in search of investments and publishers. Next up is material about a turn—based role-playing game from the German-based GG Studio.

Edinburgh-based Rockstar North regularly enjoys the right to tax benefits in the UK. The Scotsman claims that between April 2015 and March 2023, the company requested a tax deduction from the country’s authorities in the amount of £360.3 million ($453.7 million).

The Helldivers 2 co-op shooter remains one of the most money-making games of February on Steam. It once again took the first place in the weekly Steam bestseller chart, including taking into account free games.

The Steam team shared the platform’s statistics for 2023. It turned out that by some indicators it was a record.

The Build a Rocket Boy studio, founded by former Rockstar North president and GTA series producer Leslie Benzies, has cut some of its staff. This is reported by the PCGamesN portal with reference to its own sources.

Nintendo is another major gaming company whose shares have fallen in price. As Reuters noted, on the morning of February 19, their value fell by 6%. The reason was the news that Nintendo allegedly began to warn partners about the delay in the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 until the first quarter of 2025.

Sony’s market value declined sharply after the publication of the quarterly report for October-December 2023, CNBC writes. The report was released on February 14, and by the evening of February 16, the company was estimated to be $10 billion cheaper.

The Helldivers 2 cooperative shooter continues to grow online on Steam. On February 19, it simultaneously attracted 409,367 people, becoming one of the most popular games in the history of the platform.

In 2023, Epic Games Store users spent $950 million on the site, according to media reports, Blizzard Entertainment decided to lay off 136 people in Ireland, Capcom may finally raise the price tag of its new games to $70, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Recently, Sports Illustrated wrote that dozens of ZA/UM studio employees will soon lose their jobs. Now the dismissals have been confirmed by Argo Tuulik, the last screenwriter in the ZA/UM studio who worked on Disco Elysium.

Dmitry Filatov, CEO of the Narwhal gaming accelerator, published some statistics on gaming companies on his DogDog telegram channel. He tried to calculate how many video game-related organizations there are in the world right now: publishers, game development studios, outsourcing studios, platforms, game investors and others. He also looked at which countries their headquarters are located in.

Employees of the Polish Flying Wild Hog studio have organized a trade union that works under the auspices of Związek Pracowników Branży Gier (ZPBG), the union of Polish gaming industry workers. This is the first affiliated studio of the Embracer Group in the ranks of ZPBG.

Remedy Entertainment has revealed the sales of Alan Wake 2. She announced that by the end of December 2023, the game had sold 1 million copies, and by the beginning of February 2024, it had sold 1.3 million copies.

On the evening of February 15, the heads of Microsoft’s gaming division talked about the future of Xbox. They answered questions about the exclusivity of games, the development of the Game Pass subscription and plans for next-generation consoles.

The analytical company InvestGame has published a report on the situation in the gaming investment market for 2023. Thanks to the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, the total amount of transactions increased, but overall the investment climate was turbulent.

The Blackbird Interactive studio once again said goodbye to some of the employees. The layoffs became known shortly after she postponed the release of the Homeworld 3 space strategy from March 8 to May 13, 2024.

Bandai Namco Entertainment is pleased with the performance of Tekken 8. At the presentation for investors, the company announced that the game is selling better than expected.

Embracer Group shared its financial results for October-December 2023. In the report, the Swedish company also said that it laid off several hundred more people during the quarter as part of the restructuring.

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen has written a program column on the company’s status. He revealed the financial results for 2023 and talked about the new course of development of Supercell.