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News March 13, 2024

The Games Fund has invested $ 1.5 million in the authors of the action game Tenet of the Spark about moving between realities

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.

News March 13, 2024

PC games and YouTube videos from developers will appear on Google Play

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.

News March 13, 2024

Discord will allow third-party developers to create embedded games

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.

News March 13, 2024

Doom Eternal technical artist and former CEO of id Software headed an indie studio for the development of AAA games

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.

News March 13, 2024

The game director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order founded the studio. He is going to make AAA games with a team of 100 people

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.

News March 13, 2024

Sales of the Resident Evil 4 remake exceeded 7 million copies

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

News March 12, 2024

Apple has given the green light in Europe to download iOS apps from the web

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

News March 12, 2024

Startup Balancy has raised half a million dollars for further development

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”.

Analytics March 12, 2024

In three years, the revenue of the mobile hybrid casual games market has tripled

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.

News March 12, 2024

Dragon’s Dogma 2 entered the top 10 games by weekly sales on Steam

Steam users are actively pre-ordering Dragon’s Dogma 2. On the eve of the release, the game reached the sixth place in the weekly Steam bestseller chart. If you remove free games and Steam Deck from the top, then Dragon’s Dogma 2 will get the second place.

News March 12, 2024

Expert: the volume of the Russian gaming market is 3 billion dollars

Hicham Nouhou, head of Tencent’s publishing division in Russia and the CIS, estimated the Russian gaming market at this amount. He announced his data at a meeting of the working group of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on esports.

News March 12, 2024

The creative director of the Battlefield series has left DICE

There is one less person in the Battlefield team. The network noticed that the creative director of the series, Craig Morrison, left the DICE studio in February 2024.

News March 12, 2024

Sales of Monster Hunter: World exceeded 25 million copies

Capcom shared another achievement of Monster Hunter: World in honor of the anniversary of the series — in March 2024, Monster Hunter turned 20 years old.

Analytics March 11, 2024

AppMagic named the five most interesting genres in the casual segment

At the end of February, the AppMagic analytical service prepared a study of the casual games market for mobile devices. We tell you about the most important of them.

News March 11, 2024

The authors of Stellar Blade are preparing to go public. The studio’s valuation may exceed $2 billion

Shift Up Studio, known for Goddess of Victory: Nikke and the upcoming Stellar Blade, is about to become a public company. She has applied for a listing on the Korean Stock Exchange.

News March 11, 2024

Sales of Ori series games have reached 10 million copies

Thomas Mahler, CEO of Moon Studios, said that the Ori dilogy has become one of the most successful franchises in the metroidvania genre in history.

News March 11, 2024

Media: the former head of Activision Blizzard is interested in buying TikTok

Bobby Kotick, who left the post of CEO of Activision Blizzard in December 2023, is considering buying TikTok amid the threat of a ban on the social network in the United States. Sources of The Wall Street Journal claim that he has already contacted the executive director of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, to “express interest.”

News March 11, 2024

The main thing for the weekend (March 8-10)

Apple restored the Epic Games developer account on iOS, the Deviation Games studio was closed, the source code of the qdEngine engine appeared in the public domain, on which the quests “Brothers Pilots 3D” and “Dwarf Nose” were created, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

Round table March 8, 2024

The round table: Sora in game development — what are the prospects for the new OpenAI tool?

In mid-February, OpenAI introduced a new generative network that is capable of generating very high-quality video by text format. It’s called Sora. We talked about its prospects in the gaming industry with teams that have already implemented other neural networks into their pipeline. Our experts include representatives of Charisma, Playkot, Lost Lore, Skywaylab and ZiMAD.

Scopely: revenue MONOPOLY GO! It has passed the $ 2 billion mark

The Games Fund has invested $ 1.5 million in the authors of the action game Tenet of the Spark about moving between realities

PC games and YouTube videos from developers will appear on Google Play

Discord will allow third-party developers to create embedded games

Doom Eternal technical artist and former CEO of id Software headed an indie studio for the development of AAA games

The game director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order founded the studio. He is going to make AAA games with a team of 100 people

Sales of the Resident Evil 4 remake exceeded 7 million copies

Apple has given the green light in Europe to download iOS apps from the web

Startup Balancy has raised half a million dollars for further development

In three years, the revenue of the mobile hybrid casual games market has tripled

Dragon’s Dogma 2 entered the top 10 games by weekly sales on Steam

Expert: the volume of the Russian gaming market is 3 billion dollars

The creative director of the Battlefield series has left DICE

Sales of Monster Hunter: World exceeded 25 million copies

AppMagic named the five most interesting genres in the casual segment

The authors of Stellar Blade are preparing to go public. The studio’s valuation may exceed $2 billion

Sales of Ori series games have reached 10 million copies

Media: the former head of Activision Blizzard is interested in buying TikTok

The main thing for the weekend (March 8-10)

The round table: Sora in game development — what are the prospects for the new OpenAI tool?