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News December 1, 2023

Supercell: 68% of Clash of Clans players learn about the game through word of mouth

The other day, the RovioCon Google 23 conference was held in Helsinki. One of the reports was read by a representative of Supercell. We share interesting facts from it.

News December 1, 2023

Baldur’s Gate 3 could sell more than 7 million copies

On November 30, the Larian Studios blog on Steam reported that 1.3 million people have played the game since its release on August 3. This allows you to give an approximate estimate of the number of copies of the game sold.

News November 30, 2023

Google and Apple named the best mobile games of 2023. Among them are Honkai: Star Rail and Vampire Survivors

Google and Apple corporations summed up the results of the year and published lists with the best games in their app stores for 2023.

News November 30, 2023

Activision Blizzard was preparing to open a mobile store in 2019. It was part of a plan to put pressure on Google

In 2019, Activision Blizzard was considering launching an app store for mobile devices: it wanted to make it itself or in partnership with Epic Games and Supercell. The company announced its plans to Google in an attempt to bargain for better terms on Google Play and other services.

News November 29, 2023

Embracer Group Closes TimeSplitters Authors Studio and Fires Half of Chorus Developers

The Swedish Embracer Group holding continues to close some subsidiaries and reduce staff in others. The list of studios that suffered from the company’s restructuring included Free Radical Design and Fishlabs.

News November 29, 2023

Unity will lay off 265 employees and close almost half of its offices

Unity has announced new large-scale cuts. This time the reason was the termination of cooperation with Weta FX, a special effects studio directed by Peter Jackson. A total of 256 people or 3.8% of the total number of Unity employees will remain unemployed.

News November 29, 2023

CD PROJEKT has risen in price after the release of the financial report. In it, the company reported the best third quarter in its history

On the morning of November 29, trading of CD PROJEKT shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange began with growth. The value of the Polish company’s shares increased by 5% to 113.45 zloty ($28.9) apiece. This is how investors reacted to CD PROJEKT’s report for the third quarter of 2023.

Interview November 28, 2023

What to expect from Nau Engine — interview with Andrey Karsakov

In October, it became known that the basis of the new Russian open engine Nau Engine will be a solution from Gaijin Entertainment — Dagor Engine. App2Top talked with Andrey Karsakov, Head of Nau Engine development, about how it happened and what technologies the engine will support.

News November 28, 2023

The court approved a settlement agreement between CD PROJEKT and investors dissatisfied with the quality of Cyberpunk 2077 on release

Three years later, CD PROJEKT closed the issue of a lawsuit from the company’s investors, who were not satisfied with the state of the release version of Cyberpunk 2077. The District Court of California finally approved the settlement agreement between the parties.

Podcasts November 28, 2023

Futura Digital about how developers can protect their game, about the fight against patent trolls and other legal aspects of the gaming industry

The focus of the seventh episode of Games and Names is the legal side of game dev. The podcast participants also discussed how developers can defend the results of their creative activities.

News November 28, 2023

Lethal Company became the highest-rated game of 2023 and entered the top 5 new online games on Steam

The cooperative indie horror Lethal Company managed to become the most highly rated game on Steam among all projects that were released in 2023. He beat Baldur’s Gate 3, the remake of Resident Evil 4 and Dave the Diver.

News November 28, 2023

Users spent over $3 billion in Plarium games, more than half in RAID: Shadow Legends

Plarium has achieved a new achievement. The total user spending in its games on Google Play and the App Store reached $3.37 billion, according to a report from the AppMagic analytical platform.

News November 27, 2023

Ghostrunner 2 recouped development costs in less than a week

Released on October 26, 2023, cyberpunk action Ghostrunner 2 showed a financially successful start. In a notice to investors, the Polish studio One More Level reported that it took several days to recoup the costs of creating the game.

News November 27, 2023

Reuters: ByteDance to Close Nuverse Company that Published Marvel Snap

The Chinese holding ByteDance will restructure its gaming division. According to Reuters sources, during it the company will close its largest gaming “daughter” of the publisher Nuverse.

News November 27, 2023

The main thing for the weekend (November 25-26)

Team17 has fallen in price by more than 40% in a day, Red Dead Redemption 2 has updated the online record on Steam, there are rumors that Minecraft earns more than $ 100 million a year — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News November 24, 2023

MediEvil co-creator sells his BAFTA Award statuette to “keep a roof over his head”

Jason Wilson (aka Jay Gunn) is a developer who was responsible for game design and many other aspects of the original games of the MediEvil series. The other day he put up for sale a statuette of the BAFTA Award, which he received in 2000 for his work on MediEvil 2.

News November 24, 2023

A pop-up advertisement with Assassin’s Creed Mirage appeared in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. UPDATE: Ubisoft has stated that this is a technical error

Ubisoft started promoting Assassin’s Creed Mirage with pop—up ads in another part of the series – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The network noticed that banners now appear during the game with an offer to buy Assassin’s Creed Mirage at a discount in honor of Black Friday.

News November 24, 2023

GDEV report: there are more paying users, the Hero Wars: Alliance box office has reached $1.2 billion

GDEV (formerly Nexters) has summed up the financial results of the third quarter and the first nine months of 2023. We chose the main thing from the report.

News November 23, 2023

The creators of the Coffee Talk barista simulator bought the Indonesian studio Mojiken Studio

Indie publisher and developer Toge Productions, known primarily for the visual novel about the barista Coffee Talk, decided to expand. The company announced that it has joined the Mojiken Studio.

News November 23, 2023

In the first three weeks, Warcraft Rumble earned more than $13 million. Six times less than Clash Royale

The Warcraft Rumble mobile action strategy has brought Blizzard Entertainment $13.7 million in three weeks since its release, according to data from the AppMagic analytical platform. Although this is a good result for the game in its segment, it is far from the starting figures of the hit Clash Royale.