The medieval town planner Manor Lords took the second place in the list of the most desired games on Steam. According to developer Greg Styczeń, he didn’t even expect that so many people would be interested in his game.

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), with the participation of the Omdia consulting firm, conducted a survey of 3,000 game developers. According to him, over the past 12 months, 7% of developers have already changed the engine, and 28% began to consider this possibility.

Another news about layoffs. Now the Polish publisher CI Games has announced a significant reduction in personnel.

On January 11, 2024, the distribution of Sail Forth, an adventure game offering to surf the ocean on a sailboat, started in the Epic Games Store. The distribution led to a huge increase in the game’s audience.

In 2022, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker left the Rocksteady Studios they founded. Now it has become known that they have established another company. Like Rocksteady Studios, it is located in London.

The growth rate of subscription revenue has slowed. This was announced by Mat Piscatella, an executive director and analyst at Circana (formerly NPD).

The Paris Court of Appeal has cleared the French mobile publisher Homa of all charges brought by Voodoo. The latter claimed that the hyper—casual Craft Island game developed by Ducky Games studio — the “daughter” of Homa – copies its Lumbercraft.

More than 10 Russian companies that previously settled in Cyprus are going to leave the country, the Cypriot news portal Philenews reports. They will either return to Russia or settle in Kazakhstan.

The Russian retail chain “M.Video-Eldorado” told how things were going with sales of disc editions of console games in 2023.

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group, which owns many game studios, is switching to economy mode. The company said it was forced to restructure because it had spent too much on purchases and investments over the past few years.

At the beginning of 2023, the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment updated the logo, which caused dissatisfaction with the company Take-Two Interactive. The latter appealed to the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) with a complaint that the new Remedy logo looks too much like the logo of her “daughter” Rockstar Games.

Apex Legends Battle Royale managed to top the weekly Steam sales chart, surpassing Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 and other products at the box office. The last time this happened was almost a year ago — in February 2023.

A year ago, Ubisoft reported that Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope sold worse than expected at the start. Nevertheless, sources of the Video Games Chronicle portal claim that sales of the game for the debut year are comparable to sales of the commercially successful original.

Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has been purchased more than 3 million times worldwide. The fighting game overcame this milestone by January 3, seven months after its release.

The mobile hit MONOPOLY GO! continues to rapidly gain cash. Over the past 30 days, the average daily revenue of the game has been kept at $4.2 million, according to data from the AppMagic analytical platform.

Last year, the number of downloads of games in the Russian Google Play and App Store increased by 4% to almost 3 billion. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to the data of the analytical platform data.ai .

The studio Double Loop Games, specializing in mobile games, ceased to exist four and a half years after its opening. This was told on LinkedIn by one of its founders and CEO Emily Greer.

In 2023, 2.58 million PlayStation 5 copies were sold in Japan, according to Game Data Library analysts. The last time any one Sony console had such high annual sales in the country was in 2010 – during the PlayStation Portable era.

Ghost Ship Games studio, which created a cooperative shooter about Deep Rock Galactic space gnomes, presented data on sales, active audience and other indicators of the game.