Thomas Mahler, CEO of Moon Studios, said that the Ori dilogy has become one of the most successful franchises in the metroidvania genre in history.

Bobby Kotick, who left the post of CEO of Activision Blizzard in December 2023, is considering buying TikTok amid the threat of a ban on the social network in the United States. Sources of The Wall Street Journal claim that he has already contacted the executive director of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, to “express interest.”

Apple restored the Epic Games developer account on iOS, the Deviation Games studio was closed, the source code of the qdEngine engine appeared in the public domain, on which the quests “Brothers Pilots 3D” and “Dwarf Nose” were created, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

In mid-February, OpenAI introduced a new generative network that is capable of generating very high-quality video by text format. It’s called Sora. We talked about its prospects in the gaming industry with teams that have already implemented other neural networks into their pipeline. Our experts include representatives of Charisma, Playkot, Lost Lore, Skywaylab and ZiMAD.

In February, the publisher of hyper casual games Supersonic Studios turned four years old. In honor of this, the company announced that to date it has released more than 100 titles, which have accumulated a total of 4.98 billion downloads.

The European regulator intends to look into the situation with the deletion of the Epic Games developer account on iOS. The agency will check whether Apple has violated EU legislation.

Electronic Arts (EA) CEO Andrew Wilson at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media Conference & Telecom said that his company is actively developing technologies of generative artificial intelligence. EA hopes that with their help it will be possible to speed up game development and increase performance.

Analytical company data.ai She made up the top 50 mobile publishers in whose applications users spent the most money in 2023.

Apple has closed a new Epic Games developer account just a few weeks after it was opened. With it, the company wanted to launch the Epic Games Store on iOS in the European Union and place Fortnite there.

The Yandex analytical service has received a new tool. It is called “LTV and Outflow Predicates”. The service predicts revenue from the existing audience and identifies users who are going to leave the application.

Based on the data of the AppMagic analytical platform, the App2Top editorial board has prepared material on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

The Balatro poker “bagel” crossed the milestone of half a million copies sold ten days after its release. This was announced by the publisher of the game Playstack.

Capcom has announced that it will pay more to both current and new employees of Japanese divisions. Their salaries will be increased at different times.

Gaming expert Simon Carless revealed in a recent newsletter the gross revenue of a number of notable new products in 2024 on Steam. He used data from the analytical service GameDiscoverCo.

Roblox has been accused more than once of aggressively making money from young users. In February 2024, the company received a new class action lawsuit.

The final details of the new session of the GenAI For Business conference dedicated to generative neural networks have been published. It will take place in the USA this month. Among the speakers are representatives of businesses developing their AI solutions.

Canadian indie studio Spearhead Games has announced that it is forced to say goodbye to a significant part of the staff. She made this decision because of financial problems.

The head of Warner Bros. Discovery’s games and streaming division, Jean-Briac Perrette, announced that the company now plans to focus more on service-based solutions rather than AAA games.

On March 4, The Thaumaturge was released on PC, a dark RPG set in Warsaw at the beginning of the 20th century. According to analysts from the Polish bank mBank, the budget of the game could be 15-20 million zlotys, which is about 3.8-5 million dollars. The amount includes the costs of both the development and promotion of the title.