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News November 2, 2023

The authors of The Day Before defended the name of the game through the court

FNTASTIC studio has announced that The Day Before survival will retain its name. She won a lawsuit over the trademark rights of the game with a Korean company that developed a calendar application called TheDayBefore.

News November 2, 2023

EA report: profit increased, 14.5 million people played in EA Sports FC 24 for the month

Electronic Arts (EA) summed up the results of the second quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30. The company has shown good results.

News November 1, 2023

Axios: 2023 was the best year in terms of the number of the most highly rated games in the last 20 years

In 2023, 25 games have already been released, which received at least 90 points out of 100 on Metacritic, Axios calculated. This is a record for at least 20 years.

News November 1, 2023

In the studio of the authors of AdVenture Capitalist, more than a quarter of employees were cut

The Canadian studio Hyper Hippo also took up the cuts. She fired 27% of employees — that’s 13 people.

News November 1, 2023

Rumor: Steam plans to expand parental control functions

SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik noticed that Valve is working on new family settings on Steam. There are few details yet, but it is known that there are three functions.

News November 1, 2023

Capcom: at the technical level, mods differ little from cheats

It seems that anti-cheat in Capcom games can block not only cheats, but also mods. One of the developers of the company during the Capcom Open Conference Professional RE:2023 stated that from the point of view of the implementation of mods work as cheats and other malware.

News November 1, 2023

Devolver Digital bought the creators of Astroneer for $ 40 million

The American studio System Era Softworks has announced that it has a new owner. It became part of Devolver Digital.

News November 1, 2023

The State Duma will consider a bill on the regulation of creative industries. These include the game

A group of Russian senators and deputies proposed to streamline the work of creative industries in the country. The relevant bill was submitted to the State Duma for consideration.

News November 1, 2023

Media: Bungie fired 100 people due to a sharp drop in Destiny 2 revenue

Bungie’s layoffs affected 8% of the studio’s staff, or about 100 people, according to Bloomberg and IGN sources. According to their information, the cuts took place against the background of serious problems with Destiny 2.

News October 31, 2023

“M.Video-Eldorado”: more than a third of the surveyed Russians started playing on consoles when they were under 10 years old

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” conducted a survey among readers of the publication “M.Click” playing on consoles. Most of the respondents said that their first console was Dendy, and they started playing as children.

News October 31, 2023

Rumor: Bungie has left the author of music for Halo and Destiny

Composer Michael Salvatori (Micheal Salvatori) could fall under the wave of layoffs at Bungie. He has collaborated with the studio for more than 25 years.

Podcasts October 31, 2023

App Radar in the AppMagic podcast talked about how AI can be used in game marketing and setting up ASO

The guest of the new episode of the Games and Names podcast was Thomas Kriebernegg, co-founder of the page optimization service in App Radar app stores.

News October 31, 2023

Atari buys Digital Eclipse, a studio specializing in the reissue of retro games

Atari has agreed to purchase the American studio Digital Eclipse, which is engaged in preserving the game history. The maximum size of the transaction will be $20 million.

News October 31, 2023

Remedy Report: Alan Wake Remaster has paid off, Remakes of the first two Max Payne are ready to start production

Remedy Entertainment has released a financial report for the third quarter of 2023. In it, the company told how the development of games is progressing.

News October 31, 2023

In China, the creators of private servers for Genshin Impact and Honkai were arrested: Star Rail

miHoYo shared the new results of the company’s “rights protection operation”. She announced that the police in China had taken into custody 16 people involved in the creation and maintenance of private servers for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. Their servers were shut down.

News October 31, 2023

Sales of Green Hell exceeded 5 million copies

Survival about survival in the jungle Green Hell has sold over 5 million copies. This was announced by the Polish studio Creepy Jar.

News October 31, 2023

The head of Bungie confirmed the layoffs in the studio

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons wrote on X (former Twitter) that his studio had indeed cut some of its employees. He stated that this is a sad day for Bungie.

News October 30, 2023

Bungie will undergo layoffs

The fact that the Sony-owned Bungie game studio will be affected by a wave of layoffs was reported by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.

Industry October 30, 2023

The Finals from former DICE employees entered the top five Steam online, collecting almost 300 thousand players at a time

This year may be one game blockbuster richer. The open beta of the cooperative shooter The Finals attracted an audience of 267 thousand people on Steam. This is almost four times more than I was able to collect at the peak on the Overwatch 2 platform.

Conferences October 30, 2023

The Generative AI For Business conference was attended by more than 300 participants

On October 23, the Generative AI For Business SF’23 business conference was held in San Francisco, dedicated to trends in the field of generative artificial intelligence. Its guests were representatives of companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services, Scenario, Confident AI, Layer.ai and NetEase.