Gaming companies continue to cut staff. Deck Nine Games studio, known for Life Is Strange: True Colors and The Expanse: A Telltale Series, has conducted mass layoffs for the second time in the last year.

On February 20, the Balatro poker “bagel” was released. The game immediately became a commercial success for the LocalThunk studio and the Playstack publishing house.

A month ago, Apple announced that it would comply with the law on digital stores in the European Union and launch alternative mobile stores on iOS. However, at the same time, she decided to disable support for PWA — progressive web applications in the region. The latest decision has attracted the attention of the European Commission.

Dmitry Bobrov, CEO of ZiMAD, told in the tenth issue of the Games and Names podcast about how a mobile game can remain successful for a decade. During the conversation, he also touched upon the importance of subscriptions for the company’s key game.

As part of the launch of the Product Management Best Practices course on the WN Academy platform, we talked about the position of a product manager with its authors Denis Pozdnyakov and Nikita Veselko.

The head of Sony’s gaming division, Jim Ryan, announced mass layoffs. 900 PlayStation employees will be cut, which is 8% of the staff.

This afternoon, Russian media began to massively report that the Community section of the Steam platform was included by Roskomnadzor in the list of sites with information prohibited in Russia. Then the site disappeared from the unified registry.

Last year, unlike many gaming companies, Lesta Games did not reduce, but increased the number of employees. In an interview with TASS, the owner of Lesta Games, Malik Khatazhayev, said that during the year his company hired 745 people.

Unity has published a financial report for the fourth quarter of 2023 and immediately for the whole year. She reported on revenue growth, and also shared new details about the process of “rebooting” the company.

On February 26, Stardew Valley turned eight years old. On this occasion, the creator of the game Eric Barone announced 30 million copies sold and the imminent release of a large patch 1.6.

A wave of layoffs has reached the authors of Until Dawn. This morning, on February 26, Supermassive Games employees learned that management plans to lay off 90 people.

Good news for the Embracer Group. According to the analytical service VG Insights, the remaster of the original Tomb Raider trilogy sold almost 85 thousand copies on Steam in the first 12 days of sales.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation wants Apple to allow Russians to install iOS apps not only from the App Store. The department plans to submit the relevant bill to the State Duma during the spring session.

Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian Studios, inadvertently revealed the size of Baldur’s Gate 3 audience. He mentioned the number during a discussion about mod support.

25 million people played in Palworld, Suicide Squad did not meet the expectations of Warner Bros., the Battlefield game director left Electronic Arts, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Last year, the Roblox game development community earned more than ever. Bloomberg noted in the company’s financial documents that the total amount of payments amounted to a record $740.8 million.

The launch sales of the Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor car scooter exceeded all the expectations of the developers. Funday Games announced that the game has reached the mark of half a million copies sold just a week after it was released in early access.

There are no more game engines in the registry of domestic software. On February 20, UNIGINE was removed from it by the decision of the expert council under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Elden Ring continues to actively buy. After the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion was shown, the developers reported that the game took a little less than two years to sell 23 million copies.