Thronefall is a minimalistic urban planner with elements of Tower Defense. Indie studio GrizzlyGames, consisting of only two people, shared the success of the game in a conversation with gaming expert Simon Carless.

Raj Patel, the marketing director at the Canadian indie studio Hinterland Games, calculated how often game companies announced layoffs this year. According to him, this happened almost every week.

The network noticed that Anders Howard, the chief monetization designer, left Naughty Dog. He was engaged in a multiplayer game in the world of The Last of Us.

Keywords Studios has joined the list of companies that have cut employees. At the end of September, she terminated contracts with specialists who helped BioWare with testing games.

Next year, the Unreal Engine will switch to a new pricing model for corporate clients not related to game development — film companies, car brands and others. This was announced by the head of Epic Games Tim Sweeney during a speech at the Unreal Fest 2023 conference.

Time Manager Grand Hotel Mania is one of the mobile hits of MY.GAMES. The company announced that the game has earned $100 million to date.

The police detained several former Ubisoft managers, according to the French trade union Solidaires Informatique. They were interrogated in the case of harassment.

Journalist Zach Bussey (Zach Bussey) in his profile on X (Twitter) reported that Amazon fired some of the Twitch employees.

Epic Games continues to develop the Fortnite ecosystem. The company announced that since the game has content for different ages, then everyone should be assigned an appropriate age rating.

Seven BioWare veterans have appealed to a Canadian court. They accused the company of “unreasonably mistreatment” during the dismissal.

Astrum Entertainment has announced a management reshuffle. She appointed Alexey Izotov, who previously headed the publishing direction at MY.GAMES, as the new CEO.

Sad Cat Studios, a studio with Belarusian roots, has raised $5 million from GEM Capital. She is going to spend part of this amount to finalize the retrofuturistic platformer Replaced.

The analytical service Gamalytic shared infographics on the total number of games released on Steam and their approximate revenue. Most of the titles do not earn even $ 1000, but the number of successful projects in the total mass continues to grow.

The Puny Human outsourcing studio is preparing to close. She had serious financial problems after an unnamed gaming company stopped cooperating.

Naughty Dog has decided to part with some of the employees, Kotaku reports, citing sources. The company will terminate contracts with at least 25 freelance workers.

The slasher “Russ vs Lizards”, based on a popular meme, is selling great. The game took the sixth place in the top of the highest-grossing products on Steam in Russia as a result of the last week.

The next chamber game dev event from WN Media Group is expected this week. This time it will take place in the west of Poland, in the city of Poznan. Among his guests are The Farm 51, Ice Code Games, Anshar Studios, Owlcat Games, My.Games Venture Capital, Ravenage and many others.

ROCKFISH Games has shared updated statistics on Everspace 2. She announced that the space shooter was launched by more than 1,111,111 Game Pass subscribers, and its sales on all platforms exceeded 400 thousand copies.

The revenue of the AR-game Monster Hunter Now with IAP exceeded $ 21 million, follows from the data of the AppMagic service. This made the title the third highest-grossing mobile game in the Niantic portfolio.