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News April 16, 2024

Media: Kwalee has cut 10% of its staff

The British publisher Kwalee has also taken up layoffs. The company has started restructuring, as part of which it has reduced several dozen employees.

News April 16, 2024

Manor Lords has become the most desired game on Steam

Medieval town planner Manor Lords topped the top of the most desired games in the Steam store, overtaking Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Frostpunk 2. According to the publisher of Hooded Horse, the title was added to the wish list of 2.5 million people.

News April 15, 2024

In 2023, the revenue of the UK gaming market reached 7.82 billion pounds

The UK gaming market continues to grow, according to a report from the UKIE trade organization.

News April 15, 2024

The Yandex advertising SDK has added the ability to display dozens of ads in one block

In early April, Yandex released the seventh version of the Mobile Ads SDK. Among other things, the SDK has a new advertising format — the feed.

News April 15, 2024

In South Korea, young game developers are compensated up to half of the rent for housing

The authorities of the South Korean city of Busan, together with the Busan IT Industry Development Agency, decided to support local youth engaged in game development. By the end of the year, they will be helping young developers with the payment of rental housing.

News April 15, 2024

Fallout 76 has updated the online record on Steam after the release of the series, the online of other parts has also grown

On April 11, the premiere of the serial adaptation of Fallout from Amazon took place. According to the SteamDB service, against this background, all games in the series have grown online on Steam.

News April 15, 2024

The main thing for the weekend (April 13-14)

Larian Studios was one of the largest sponsors of Blasphemous on Kickstarter, the former president of Blizzard offered to tip game developers, sales of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth turned out to be half as much as the first part — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News April 12, 2024

In 2023, the revenue of the German gaming market came close to 10 billion euros

The German GAME Association has published a report on the state of the German gaming market over the past year. We have chosen the main thing.

News April 12, 2024

Analyst: purchase data.ai Sensor Tower could have cost $300 million, the mobile analytics market needs competition

In March, Sensor Tower, an analytical company, announced the purchase of a rival company data.ai . Joost van Dreunen, founder and head of the now-closed SuperData, shared his opinion on the deal in his newsletter. He is pessimistic.

News April 12, 2024

Content Warning sold out several times better than any other Landfall Games game on the first day

The release of the cooperative horror Content Warning was a significant event for the Landfall Games studio. Thanks to the free distribution on the first day, the game attracted the attention of millions of gamers from all over the world. According to the developers, it continued to be in demand after the end of the campaign.

News April 12, 2024

Media: Electronic Arts has decided to close the testing department of Apex Legends in the UK

Electronic Arts (EA) continues to cut staff. Insider Tom Henderson found out that in a few weeks more than 40 testers from the UK who worked on Apex Legends will leave the company.

Interview April 11, 2024

Revival: Recolonization was released. About the history of the project development — in our interview with HeroCraft

On April 11, the global strategy Revival: Recolonization was released on PC in full. App2Top talked with Sergey Ulankin, head of console and PC publishing at HeroCraft, about how development was going, how successful early access was, about working with VK Play, and much more.

Round table April 11, 2024

Round table: a big conversation about what is happening in the mobile game advertising market

App2Top brought together representatives of AdQuantum, Appska, Tenjin, AppsFlyer, Adjust and Appier to talk about the current situation in the mobile game advertising market. We discussed AI, the transition to the web, traffic prices and much more.

News April 11, 2024

Saber CEO on $70 games: “You can make great games and not sell them at a price that will empty someone’s bank account”

After Saber Interactive’s exit from the Swedish Embracer Group holding, the company’s CEO Matthew Karch is actively communicating with the press. This time, in an interview with GamesIndustry, he shared his thoughts on the cost of AAA games and their development.

News April 11, 2024

Miniclip bought the authors of PowerWash Simulator

The Swiss publisher of mobile games Miniclip has acquired a non-core asset for itself. The company includes FuturLab studio, which develops games for consoles and PCs and is best known for the PowerWash Simulator.

News April 11, 2024

Yandex is testing its own gaming cloud service

Yandex has decided to enter the cloud gaming market. She began accepting applications to participate in a closed testing service called “Plus Gaming”.

News April 11, 2024

Analysts: The Stellar Blade demo has doubled the size of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth in terms of daily audience

On March 29, South Korean studio Shift Up released a demo of the futuristic action game Stellar Blade on PlayStation 5 consoles. The game showed excellent results. Analysts from Ampere Analysis estimated that at its peak it attracted almost twice as many daily active users (DAU) as the demo version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth at the time.

News April 11, 2024

Media: Ascendant Studios has sent most of the staff on unpaid leave

The difficult times for gaming companies continue. Ascendant Studios, which created the Immortals of Aveum shooter, forcibly transferred most employees to a long unpaid leave. This is reported by the Game Developer with reference to a LinkedIn post by Phoenix Labs Chief Engineer Chris Morness.

News April 10, 2024

The founders of Moon Moose announced the launch of a new studio — Mind Control Games

The core of the Cartel Tycoon development team has moved to a new independent studio. It’s called Mind Control Games.

News April 10, 2024

The authors of Champions of Otherworldly Magic pay the “AI artist” 15 thousand dollars a month for 10 hours of work

The use of artificial intelligence in game development continues to cause heated debate. This time, Champions TCG studio participated in them. She stated that the artwork for her collectible NFT card game Champions of Otherworldly was made using neural networks. They were created by an “AI artist” alone, to whom she paid tens of thousands of dollars.