Cyberpunk 2077 is experiencing a surge in popularity. On September 21, CD PROJEKT released a large-scale patch 2.0, after which online games on Steam jumped more than four times.

The RuStore team hopes to see a significant increase in the monthly active audience (MAU) of the store. She expects that by the end of 2023, RuStore will be regularly used by 25 million people.

On the morning of September 22, Activision Blizzard shares rose in price. As Bloomberg noted, in pre-market trading, their value increased by 2.2% to $94.39 apiece.

Embracer Group shared information about the sales of three games published by its “daughter” Coffee Stain. In particular, the company reported that Valheim survival has overcome a new major milestone — in two and a half years, the game has been bought 12 million times.

At the annual meeting, Embracer Group told how old its shareholders are. According to her calculations, almost 700 of them were not even 11 years old.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has previously announced that it no longer considers the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard a threat to competition in the cloud gaming market. He was convinced by the agreement that Microsoft signed with Ubisoft.

Despite the difficulties of recent years, game studios continue to open and operate in Russia. An overview of the current state of regulation, primarily tax, for such companies was prepared by Roman Motorin, a lawyer at Versus.legal.

Restructuring in the Embracer Group will lead to the closure of a number of studios, the head of the holding, Lars Wingefors, said at the annual meeting. He did not specify which studios would be affected.

On September 21, the Embracer Group held its annual meeting. During the question and answer session, the head of the Swedish holding company Lars Wingefors called the amount that the company spends on commissions for Steam, PlayStation Store and other gaming stores “insane”.

The British developer and publisher Team17 has published a financial report for the first half of 2023. We share the main thing from it.

On September 14, the global release of the mobile AR game Monster Hunter Now took place. A week later, the developers announced that the number of downloads of the title reached 5 million.

The Finnish studio Spectarium, founded by top managers Plarium and Janeious, closed the seed round of financing. She received €5 million from investors. The money will be used to create a mythical RPG called Myths, built on an AI engine.

Based on the AppMagic data, the App2Top editors have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

India is the fastest growing gaming market in Asia in terms of both revenue and the number of gamers. The analytical company Niko Partners predicts that in 2027 there will be 343% more gamers in the country than in 2017.

OpenAI has introduced the third generation of the DALL-E neural network for image generation. One of its key features is integration with the chat bot ChatGPT.

The restructuring of Embracer Group affected another subsidiary studio of the Swedish holding. Now layoffs have taken place in Crystal Dynamics, known for the Tomb Raider series of games.

The founder and CEO of Striking Distance Studios, Glen Schofield, has decided to resign. Along with him, the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Financial Officer are also leaving the studio.

Ubisoft shared the success of The Crew Motorfest. During the debut week, the race sold more copies than the rest of the series at the time.

Over the past week, there have been many developers who have decided to abandon the Unity engine and switch to other platforms. To help them, AppLovin has released Unifree, a tool that allows you to transfer the code of games written for Unity to the Unreal Engine, Godot and Cocos engines.