Valve has published a list of games that had the largest daily active audience on the Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024.

A few years ago, Valve employees decided to calculate the commercial efficiency of the company in terms of the ratio of net profit per employee per year and hour. They found out that in 2018, Valve surpassed such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in this indicator.

At the end of February, Electronic Arts announced a new stage of restructuring and the decision to lay off 670 people. According to IGN, one of the “victims” of the changes in the company was the Respawn Entertainment studio.

The new Aspyr remaster did not meet expectations.

Adjust, together with Applovin, has released a report on the state of affairs in the mobile market — Mobile app trends: 2024 edition. A separate chapter is devoted to mobile games. Read more about them in our material.

Beacon Interactive is going to use options and take over 4A Games and Zen Studios from Embracer Group. This is indicated by a letter from the head of the company Matthew Karch to Saber Interactive employees, an excerpt from which was published in X by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

According to the documents published online, it can be concluded (assumption) that, in fact, Saber Interactive bought itself from the Embracer Group.

2024 will be a difficult year for the US gaming market, predicts analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. He expects Americans to spend less on video games than in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a number of Saber Interactive assets for 2.57 billion Swedish kronor or $ 247 million.

This was announced on the official website of the company by Scopely CEO Javier Ferreira.

It became known about the new investment of The Games Fund. This time, the venture fund invested $ 1.5 million in the Roar Games studio.

Google hosted the Google for Games Developer Summit event. As part of it, the corporation introduced a number of innovations for the Google Play app store.

Discord is becoming a new platform for the distribution of games. The creators of the chat service announced that from March 18, all interested developers will be able to create games that can be played directly in Discord itself. Previously, only selected developers had this opportunity.

Good news. Despite the crisis in the industry, new gaming companies are still emerging. Emanuel Palalic and Garrett Young have announced the launch of a new studio. It’s called Emptyvessel. This is the second such announcement in the last 24 hours.

Veteran console developer Stig Asmussen has announced the launch of his own game studio. It’s called Giant Skull. The studio will develop AAA projects.

The remake of Resident Evil 4 overcame this milestone in just under a year: the game was released on March 24, 2023.

During the spring, Apple promised to release an update that will allow European iOS users to download apps directly from developer websites.

Representatives of the service for game developers Balancy announced the receipt of investments in the amount of 500 thousand dollars from the “veterans of the gaming industry”.

Sensor Tower analytical company has released a report on the situation on the market of mobile hybrid casual games in 2023. We share the key findings.