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.

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

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.

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.

No Man’s Sky brings Hello Games tens of millions of dollars a year. Reddit users discovered the company’s report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022. It says that last year the revenue of Hello Games was £39.7 million, or approximately $48.1 million at the current exchange rate.

Many American advertisers abandoned the Unity advertising network after the company introduced a new pricing policy on September 12. According to Sensor Tower analysts, in the week from September 11 to 17, their number in the Unity network decreased by 15%.

The horror shooter Quantum Error paid off even before the release. TeamKill Media studio announced that the game had recaptured all development costs by October 28.

GDEV (formerly Nexters) has announced the global release of its new farm simulator game Island Hoppers. The project, which was previously called Island Questaway, began to earn well even before the full release.

Remedy Entertainment investors reacted well to the release of Alan Wake II. On the morning of October 27, the studio’s shares were trading 23.5% more expensive than the day before — at a price of €29.4 apiece.

Russian studios that make games on Unity, Unreal Engine and other full-cycle foreign engines may be allowed to apply for inclusion of their projects in the register of domestic software. This proposal was made by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Kommersant reports.

At the beginning of the week, the creator of the God of War series, David Jaffe, citing sources, said that Connie Booth, one of the iconic figures of the gaming division, had left Sony. Now a Sony representative in a comment to Axios confirmed that Booth no longer works for the company.

On the evening of October 26, Ubisoft published a report for the first half of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30. She reported an increase in most key indicators.

Roskomnadzor added the PUBG Mobile game and the Proxima Beta company, Tencent’s “daughter”, which published it in Russia, to the register of information dissemination organizers. According to RBC, PUBG Mobile became the first game in the registry.

James Schmalz, founder and CEO of Digital Extremes, has decided to leave his position. He headed the company for 30 years.

On October 25, The Outer Worlds turned four years old. In honor of this, the developers announced that to date the game has been bought more than 5 million times.

The Swedish company Paradox Interactive reported for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023. She reported a drop in financial indicators.

Nintendo has announced that Super Mario Bros. Wonder has set a record for the fastest sales in Europe. In the first three days, the title sold out in the region in a larger circulation than any other games in the series.

DIGIC Pictures, specializing in cinematics for games, has cut 10% of its employees. This is reported by Forbes Hungary.