The question of how a developer can reserve the right to the game in case of receiving an investment is answered in their column by Irina Gushchina and Vadim Kocheshev, lawyers at Semenov&Pevzner.

A major round of layoffs also took place at the American studio Singularity 6. If you believe the reports of her former employees on LinkedIn, several dozen people are out of work.

At the end of March, SEGA announced the sale of Relic Entertainment, and a week later, the studio underwent massive layoffs. According to producer Robyn Smale, Relic Entertainment has fired a total of 41 people.

Tameem Antoniades no longer works at Ninja Theory Studio, which he and two colleagues founded in 2000.

On April 4, the game “Smuta” was released. This is the most expensive entertainment game project created at the expense of Russian government agencies.

Nikolay Katselapov, one of the founders of Wargaming, has opened his own investment fund. It’s called Mika Games. He will invest in mobile startups.

With the support of the AppMagic service, the App2Top editorial board has prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in an interview with GamesIndustry discussed the recently completed restructuring of the Embracer Group and the general condition of the Swedish holding company. We have collected the main theses.

Ziva Dynamics is a company that deals with technologies of complex modeling and deformation in real time. Her tools are used to create realistic 3D models of people, animals and other creatures. The other day, Unity, the company that owns Ziva Dynamics, decided to abandon their support.

Ross Scott, who created the machine “Freeman’s Mind” about Gordon Freeman from Half-Life, wants publishers to stop “killing” games. He launched a public project called Stop Killing Games.

Cubic Games has announced the launch of the desktop version of the Pixel Gun 3D free-to-play shooter. Before the release, she had been collecting vishlists for more than six months. I have collected almost half a million.

Markus Persson, also known as Notch, wrote on social media about the launch of his new studio called Bitshift Entertainment. She is working on a voxel “bagel” with elements of a loot shooter.

On March 21, the mobile version of Call of Duty: Warzone was released. According to AppMagic, the game earned $2.7 million in the first two weeks with 15 million downloads. For a project of this level, the release may seem commercially weak.

Landfall Games Studio has announced that the free distribution of the cooperative horror Content Warning on Steam has exceeded all expectations. According to her calculations, the number of owners of the game exceeded 6.2 million people per day.

Riot Games has dropped its claims against Shanghai-based Moonton studio, best known for MOBA Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. According to GamesIndustry, she agreed to sign a settlement agreement and withdraw all claims.

The South Korean studio Shift Up summed up the financial results of 2023. She reported a sharp increase in income.

Also among the leaders are games with mixed reality support and simulators,” the report of the agency company Curran Games Agency says.

The analytical company Newzoo has published a large-scale study on the state of the PC and console games market at the beginning of 2024. We share the key points from it.

Every year on April 1, the Landfall Games studio releases a new unusual project. In 2024, this is a cooperative horror Content Warning in the spirit of Lethal Company, which has already become a hit on Steam.