On April 18, Private Division publishing house and Moon Studios released the No Rest for the Wicked role-playing game in early Steam access. Within a few hours, she overtook the previous Private Division projects in terms of peak online on the site.

On April 10, 2024, the House Flipper 2 repair simulator was released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. Krzysztof Kostowski, CEO of the PlayWay company that published the game, shared the figures for the first 72 hours.

Fallout 4 topped the chart of the best-selling games in Europe in the last week, GamesIndustry reports, citing data from the GSD analytical platform. She managed to do this thanks to the premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts.

Devolver Digital has published a financial report for 2023. The company is still not making a profit, but its losses have decreased sevenfold.

The UK government-funded UK Games Fund has supported local gaming startups. He has allocated more than 3 million pounds for the development of 22 games.

In October 2023, Frontier Developments announced its decision to reduce staff. In a conversation with GLHF, several former and current employees of the company called the dismissal process extremely disrespectful.

The indie horror about the game of “Russian roulette” Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.

On April 17, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation again included UNIGINE in the register of domestic software. The engine has been missing from the list since the end of February.

The Open Mobile Platform company believes that the Aurora operating system it has created may be suitable for a future Russian console. According to the developers, Aurora already has the necessary tools to support console games.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, has raised $7.2 billion for new investments. She has already transferred $600 million of them to the budget of the a16z Games foundation, which deals with gaming companies.

Red Rover Interactive is a young studio founded last year by former employees of Funcom, Bohemia Interactive and Lockwood Publishing. On April 16, she successfully closed the Series A funding round.

Kevin Bentley, one of the developers of Descent 3, announced the discovery of the game’s source code. The shooter’s code can now be found on GitHub.

In a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Take-Two Interactive announced the launch of a cost-cutting program. As part of it, the publisher will lay off 5% of the staff by the end of the year.

The developer of the Shadow Fight series announced the conclusion of a partnership with the media company Story Kitchen. The latter will take up filming a TV project based on the yet-to-be-released game SPINE.

On April 14, War Robots celebrated its tenth anniversary. On this occasion, MY.GAMES company talked about the game’s revenue and other metrics.

The British publisher Team17 has published a financial report for last year. We have chosen the main thing.

On August 10, 2022, the Singapore-based Habby company sent a mobile action bagel to the global release Survivor.io in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that since that moment, the project has earned more than $ 500 million from the IAP.

The popularity of the Fallout series has also spurred the revenue growth of the mobile version of Fallout Shelter. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, thanks to the premiere of the TV show, the daily revenue of the game in the App Store and Google Play increased fourfold.

We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from Herbarium Games studio, which is developing a cooperative online action game BUS: Bro U Survived.