On March 19, the PC version of Stardew Valley received patch 1.6 with several hundred changes and a large portion of new content. The release of the update shook up the community, and as a result, online games on Steam grew to an all-time high of 146,159 people.

Ubisoft showed the developments on a project called NEO NPC at the GDC developer conference. As part of it, the company is experimenting with the creation of non-player characters who, thanks to generative AI, are able to conduct a meaningful dialogue with players.

The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker “bagel” Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.

This figure was announced by the South Korean studio Neowiz. The audience of the gloomy soulslike about the adventures of Pinocchio overcame the milestone of 7 million people six months after the release of the game: Lies of P was released on September 18, 2023.

Velan Studios, known for the AR racing game Hot Wheels: Rift Rally and the now-closed multiplayer action game Knockout City, has laid off some of its staff. This is stated in the publications of former studio employees on social networks.

The Helldivers 2 cooperative shooter has been leading the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam since the beginning of February, but it lost ground in the week from March 12 to March 19. In the general chart, which takes into account the Steam Deck and free games, it was bypassed by Counter-Strike 2.

HTC wants to attract more developers to the Viveport virtual reality app store. She announced that she would temporarily reduce the commission amount from 30% to 10%, such conditions will be in effect until the end of the year.

Valve has added a new set of family features to the beta version of the Steam client, allowing users to share access to games – family groups. They replaced Steam Family Sharing and the family browsing feature.

Consolidation in the mobile analytics market. Sensor Tower service has announced the acquisition of its key competitor — data.ai .

The publisher of Playstack and the developer LocalThunk have announced the new success of the indie card hit Balatro. They reported that the game took its first mark of one million copies sold in a little less than a month since its release: its release took place on February 20, 2024.

Epic Games has announced that the Epic Games Store client will stop supporting Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from June 2024. It will also drop support for 32-bit Windows 10.

Where to start working on the combat system, as well as what formulas to use, — said Konstantin Sakhnov, founder of the indie studio Vengeance Games and author of the course “Fundamentals of game Design“.

According to Bloomberg, Sony has decided not to produce the PS VR2 VR headset until it sells out the accumulated stocks of devices in warehouses.

The creators of the business social network Linkedin want to increase user engagement through embedded games. The signs that the company is working on games were found in the platform code by enthusiast Nima Owji.

Vedomosti newspaper discovered in the SPARK-Interfax database that in October 2023 Mikhail Akulov, one of the founders and CEO of the Hobby World board game publishing house, registered Novodel LLC. According to the description, the company specializes in the development and publication of video games.

According to analysts, sales of Helldivers 2 exceeded 8 million copies, Something Wicked Games studio laid off most of its employees, Steam again updated the record for peak online, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

This was stated by Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe in an interview with Bloomberg. He added that he had not negotiated the sale of the Microsoft studio — speculation about the corporation’s possible interest in buying Pocketpair appeared shortly after the successful release of Palworld.

Grom Social Enterprises has agreed to purchase Arctic7, a studio consisting of Sperasoft veterans.

Alyona Zhuravleva, who previously held the post of HRD in the studio, shared her experience of adapting novice managers in Glera Games with App2Top.