There are permutations at the top of the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. Counter-Strike 2, which was in the lead for seven weeks in a row, lost the first place to the extraction shooter Gray Zone Warfare.

Nintendo published its financial report for the fiscal year 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024. We have highlighted the main points from it.

On the evening of May 6, Hades II was released in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store (EGS). It is not known how things are in EGS, but thanks to analytical services, the situation in Steam is clear. There, the game has already attracted twice as many simultaneous players as the first Hades.

In March, Slavania, the debut game by FrostLeaf Games studio, published by Game Art Pioneers, was released on Steam. We talked with Vladimir Averyanov, the game designer of the project, about how the metroidvania was developed based on Russian fairy tales.

Polish studio Donkey Crew announced that Bellwright was bought 150 thousand times. The game achieved this result in 12 days: it was released in early access on Steam on April 23, 2024.

The TIGA Association wants to achieve greater government support for British game developers. She called on the UK government to introduce a special tax deduction for indie teams in the country – Independent Games Tax Credit.

Players in Helldivers 2 will still not necessarily have to link Steam and PlayStation Network (PSN) accounts. Sony has announced that it has listened to the community and lifted this requirement.

Helldivers 2 was withdrawn from sale on Steam in 177 countries, Brazil decided to regulate the gaming industry, Gray Zone Warfare was bought 500 thousand times — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Why gaming companies need EULA, what it happens, what you should pay attention to when preparing it for the game, — Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, specialists of REVERA law firm, told in their column for App2Top.

The publisher of Private Division, specializing in low- and medium-budget games, has parted with a significant number of employees. This is reported by GamesIndustry with reference to its own sources.

The year 2024 has started very well for Brawl Stars. According to AppMagic, in the first four months, the Supercell game earned over $169.8 million from the IAP, after paying mobile store fees and taxes.

On May 2, Odd Meter studio and publisher 11 bit studios released a PC version of INDIKA, a surreal adventure about a nun in an alternative Russia of the late 19th century. On the day of release, the game attracted 1,200 Steam users at the same time.

The GitHub team deleted 8535 repositories with forks of the Yuzu emulator for games from the Nintendo Switch handheld console. She did this after receiving just one, but voluminous DMCA complaint from Nintendo.

The Dutch studio Paladin Studios, noted for its work on Cut The Rope Remastered, Stormbound and Amazing Katamari Damacy, has announced its closure.

Uma Musume Pretty Derby is a mix of life simulator and horse racing, the action of which is built around pony girls. At the end of February, the game turned three years old. With a slight delay, Sensor Tower analysts shared the indicators of the mobile version of the project.

In February, Sony announced plans to lay off 900 employees of the gaming division. Alex Barnes, game director from the British studio Firesprite, wrote on social media that he was among the dismissed specialists.

Last month, the gaming industry continued to be stormed. According to the Game Industry Layoffs portal, in April, gaming companies fired or announced the dismissal of at least 1003 people.

Unity continues to improve its engine. She released a preview version of Unity 6 with accelerated rendering, artificial intelligence-based tools and various optimizations for multiplayer games.

Unity has found a successor to John Riccitiello, who left the post of CEO in the fall of 2023 after a scandal with an updated pricing policy. She announced that from May 15, 2024, this position will be held by Matthew Bromberg.