The VK Play platform may change its management. Kommersant’s sources claim that its CEO Vasily Maguryan is preparing to leave the company.

Syndicat National du Jeu Video (SNJV), a trade organization, surveyed 577 French game development studios. She found out that more than half of the teams did not earn even 300 thousand euros last year. At the same time, the number of large studios has grown.

Hurun Research Institute has compiled the top richest residents of China for January-August 2023. The organization noticed that of the five people who showed the greatest increase in wealth, three are associated with the gaming industry.

After the resignation of John Riccitiello and the softening of the terms of the Runtime Fee, the scandal surrounding Unity’s pricing policy subsided. Nevertheless, the MobileGamer portal continued to understand the situation. We share a brief squeeze of the material.

The analytical company Newzoo shared statistics on Starfield for September. We have chosen the main thing.

The CFO of CI Games, David Broderick, at a press conference revealed the budget of the soulslike Lords of the Fallen. In total, 281 million zlotys ($66.6 million) were spent on the game.

Microsoft has published a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30. It tells, among other things, about the successes of Starfield.

Starting from November 20, Steam will stop selling games and other products for Turkish lira and Argentine pesos. The US dollar will be used instead of these currencies.

Media Molecule Studio is preparing for large-scale cuts, according to GLHF sources. She plans to lay off 15-20% of 135 employees.

The growth of the Game Pass audience has ceased to affect the amount of annual bonuses that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella receives. This happened against the background of weak Game Pass indicators: for two years in a row, subscription growth did not meet the expectations of the corporation.

Unlike mobile, it is almost impossible to track the metrics of freeplay titles on a PC. Nevertheless, gaming expert Simon Carless tried to do it. He analyzed the Steam games released on the site over the past 12 months*.

Europol and Eurojust reported on the successful operation against the hacker group Ragnar Locker, which in November 2020 stole 1 TB of Capcom confidential data.

On average, 2.2 million people launch games from the Netflix catalog every day, CNBC reports, citing data from the analytical company Apptopia. This is less than 1% of the 247.15 million subscribers of the service.

A court in Texas found that Zynga did not violate the patent rights of International Game Technology (IGT), which develops games and other software for slot machines. IGT claimed that Zynga illegally used one of its technologies in the Hit It Rich, Black Diamond Casino and Game of Thrones Slots Casino games.

According to Sony Interactive Entertainment, the new Insomniac Games project has become the fastest-selling game in the history of PlayStation Studios.

Sensor Tower analytical company has released a report on the South Korean mobile games market. It covers the period from January to September 2023.

miHoYo decided to build a spacious office, writes the Chinese GameLook portal with reference to the documents of the Municipal Bureau of Planning and Resource Management of Shanghai. On October 18, its subsidiary Shanghai miHoYo Yingtie Technology acquired a plot of land for ¥1.07 billion ($137 million) with the right to use for 50 years.

Connie Booth, vice president of game development, has left Sony. So say the sources of the creator of the God of War series David Jaffe (David Jaffe).

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has made a good start in UK retail. According to journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry, the Insomniac Games project surpassed almost all games released this year in terms of physical sales in its debut week.