Under the wing of the Chinese company NetEase, a new studio has appeared — Fantastic Pixel Castle. It was headed by former League of Legends MMO executive producer Greg Street.

Japan’s Kadokawa, the parent company of FromSoftware, has released a financial report for the quarter ended September 30. We have chosen the main thing about the gaming division.

GEM Capital Investment Group has sold its stake in The Games Fund to the fund’s managing partners Ilya Yeremeyev and Maria Kochmola. For how much — it is not reported.

The Tokyo Tax Bureau found that in 2018-2020, the Luxembourg division of Epic Games did not declare income from microtransactions in Fortnite in Japan. The company was obliged to repay the tax arrears and pay a fine.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.