The German studio Black Forest Games is preparing to lay off about 50% of its employees, Kotaku sources claim. In April 2023, it employed 110 people.

Dmitry Filatov, a former producer of MGVC and Owlcat Games, announced the launch of an accelerator for Narhwal game developers.

The sum of $225 million is listed in the LinkedIn profile of Sam Saliba, former vice president of marketing for the Overwatch franchise. His profile also says that at one point Overwatch 2 was actively played by more than 50 million people.

Fntastic studio commented on the scandal surrounding The Day Before: after the disastrous release of the game, the developers were accused of fraud and criticized for not fulfilling their promises.

At the beginning of 2024, the market value of KRAFTON exceeded 9.86 trillion Korean won, or about $7.4 billion, according to GameMeca. This allowed PUBG developers to take the first place in the top of the most expensive gaming companies whose shares are traded on the Korean Stock Exchange.

PocketPair Studio reports daily on the success of Palworld. On January 24, she said that the game had reached a new millionth mark.

Last December, the National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) published draft rules restricting the monetization of free-to-play games. The network noticed that a month later the project disappeared from the regulator’s website — when trying to access the page with it, error 404 occurs.

French publisher Nacon is pleased with the results of the third financial quarter. During this period, his gaming sales amounted to €59 million. This is 43% more than in the same period a year earlier.

Riot Games has announced large-scale cuts. She intends to part with 11% of the staff.

Piranha Bytes commented on the rumors about the closure of the studio. CEO Michael Rüve acknowledged that the studio is going through difficult times, but she hopes to solve the problems.

Ahead of the imminent release of the Indika third-person action game from Odd Meter, now based in Kazakhstan, we spoke with studio head Dmitry Svetlov.

The creators of Palworld have announced that the game has crossed the next millionth milestone. It took three days for the Pokemon action game to sell 5 million copies.

MY.GAMES continues to transfer the Russian business to Astrum Entertainment. As Kommersant noted in the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, on January 10, 2024, Astrum Entertainment officially gained control of Novosibirsk-based Deuskraftdev LLC.

On January 19, Palworld, an action game with Pokemon—like creatures, was released in early access. Steam users liked the game.

Chinese gamers can play War Robots again. MY.GAMES has announced that, in partnership with publisher iDreamSky, it has re-released the shooter in local mobile app stores.

In a survey by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and Omdia, 35% of game developers said that they were affected in one way or another by the cuts actively taking place in game development in recent months.

The medieval town planner Manor Lords took the second place in the list of the most desired games on Steam. According to developer Greg Styczeń, he didn’t even expect that so many people would be interested in his game.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), with the participation of the Omdia consulting firm, conducted a survey of 3,000 game developers. According to him, over the past 12 months, 7% of developers have already changed the engine, and 28% began to consider this possibility.

Another news about layoffs. Now the Polish publisher CI Games has announced a significant reduction in personnel.