The heads of the Polish studio Starward Industries at a meeting with investors announced the dismissal of 15 of the 34 employees.

Genshin Impact has set another box office record, analysts say data.ai . It took 40 months for the hit miHoYo to exceed $5 billion in user spending in the App Store and Google Play versions, less than any other mobile games.

In accordance with the new law adopted in Europe, Apple has announced a number of innovations in iOS. These include support for third—party stores and payment systems. But there were nuances. Those who want to use the new functionality will have to pay for each installation. For more information about the situation, see our analysis.

Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have been working in the gaming industry for many years. In 1999, they founded BattleMail together, three years later they opened Rockpool Games, and eight years later — Playdemic. Now they have announced the launch of a new studio. It’s called ForthStar Games.

Ironmace can continue to distribute the PvPvE action game Dark and Darker. The studio’s managing director, Choi Ju-Hyun, announced on Discord that the court denied Nexon’s request for an injunction against the game.

We continue the cycle dedicated to projects in need of investment or publishers. Next up is the material about the visual novel Enelia: Dawn of Madness by Indra Studio.

Warner Bros. Discovery decided to invest more in games, sales of Hogwarts Legacy exceeded 24 million copies, Sony demanded to rename Bloodborne Kart, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

There is one less studio in the gaming industry. The American Little Red Dog Games, known for the strategies Rogue State and Anticipation, closed its doors on January 22, 2024.

Sources of the Kotaku portal claim that the Polish indie studio Reikon Games fired 60-70 people. This is 56% of the total number of employees of the company.

On January 25, 2024, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 1,900 employees of Xbox, Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Media. It is not officially reported which teams will fall under the cuts. However, some of the information was leaked online.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has announced the start of layoffs at the company. 8% of Microsoft’s gaming division, which totals 22 thousand people, will be reduced.

The analytical company Sensor Tower has published a report for 2023 on mobile games that are made under license. We share the main thing from it.

The German studio Black Forest Games is preparing to lay off about 50% of its employees, Kotaku sources claim. In April 2023, it employed 110 people.

Dmitry Filatov, a former producer of MGVC and Owlcat Games, announced the launch of an accelerator for Narhwal game developers.

The sum of $225 million is listed in the LinkedIn profile of Sam Saliba, former vice president of marketing for the Overwatch franchise. His profile also says that at one point Overwatch 2 was actively played by more than 50 million people.

Fntastic studio commented on the scandal surrounding The Day Before: after the disastrous release of the game, the developers were accused of fraud and criticized for not fulfilling their promises.

At the beginning of 2024, the market value of KRAFTON exceeded 9.86 trillion Korean won, or about $7.4 billion, according to GameMeca. This allowed PUBG developers to take the first place in the top of the most expensive gaming companies whose shares are traded on the Korean Stock Exchange.

PocketPair Studio reports daily on the success of Palworld. On January 24, she said that the game had reached a new millionth mark.

Last December, the National Press and Publications Administration of China (NPPA) published draft rules restricting the monetization of free-to-play games. The network noticed that a month later the project disappeared from the regulator’s website — when trying to access the page with it, error 404 occurs.