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.

Sony reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on December 31. Below are the indicators of the company’s gaming division.

Hasbro, the company that owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, has published a financial report for 2023. She reported that her video game revenue has grown well thanks to the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!.

On February 13, the role-playing action game Kingdom Come: Deliverance turned six years old. In honor of the birthday, Warhorse Studios announced that the number of copies of the game sold exceeded 6 million copies.

Hyper-casual developer and publisher Popcore Games has fired some employees, according to the PocketGamer portal. Among those fired are team leaders.

In January 2021, the South Korean company Devsisters released a mobile Cookie Run: Kingdom battler. Sensor Tower analysts told us what indicators the game has achieved in the three years since its release.

Another game from Japan successfully launched in 2024. Now it is a role-playing anime action game Granblue Fantasy: Relink, developed and published by Cygames.

The cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 interrupted Palworld’s three-week lead in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. In the week from February 6 to 13, he got the first place in the chart — this is taking into account both premium games and free titles.

The magic shooter Immortals of Aveum, which failed in sales, had a very large budget, according to a former employee of Ascendant Studios. He shared his figures in a conversation with IGN.