Volition Studio, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary two months ago, is closing.

Yandex continues to develop the AppMetrica service. It has added tools for conducting A/B testing, as well as for making changes to the application without releasing its new version.

WN Media Group has announced a new WN Connect, which will take place next Wednesday in Istanbul. Among its participants will be Google, Xsolla, Kwalee, Udo Games, Game Factory, 23 Studios and many others.

Indian gamers will soon be able to download Free Fire again. Garena announced that on September 5 it will release a new version of the game in the country with a number of special changes.

Publisher Atlus and studio Vanillaware have announced that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has been bought more than a million times. This figure takes into account both physical shipments and digital sales.

Yesterday, former employees of Blackbird Interactive reported on social networks about mass layoffs. Shortly after that, studio representatives confirmed in a media commentary that they had indeed reduced the staff.

The company SMP ESports, owned by Boris Rotenberg, decided to develop its own games in the genre of sports simulators. Football and hockey simulators will be the first.

On the evening of August 30, the Polish CD PROJEKT group of companies published a report for the first half of 2023. She said that the development of a new game in The Witcher universe — Project Polaris — is being increasingly active.

Marvel Snap has become a hit for the studio Second Dinner and publisher Nuverse. According to the AppMagic analytical service, the mobile version of the game has earned $100.89 million since its release in October 2022.

Ray Roocroft, who worked for seven years at Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) on the Star Citizen game, spoke on Reddit about the situation inside the studio. According to him, the management pays too much attention to the design of offices and spends too much money on it.

In 2023, gamers from all over the world will spend about $ 194 billion on video games, analysts predict data.ai and IDC. Of this amount, $108 billion will be spent on games for mobile devices.

In Blackbird Interactive, large-scale layoffs took place: more than 40 people were fired from the studio. The incident is reported by employees who are out of work.

Analytical company Newzoo has released a report on Diablo IV. According to him, last month Blizzard title topped the box office top games for consoles and PCs in the American and British markets.

On August 22, a Dutch court declared the indie studio Ronimo Games bankrupt. Emerce writes about this.

The developers of Sea of Stars are very happy with the start of the game. Sabotage Studio reported that on the release day, the turn-based retro RPG sold 100 thousand copies.

German developer Mimimi Games ceases its work after 15 years of operation. The studio is primarily known for real—time tactical games – Shadow Tactics and Desperados III.

Recall that in January 2023 it became known that the American company Motorsport Games had not paid salaries to three dozen Russian employees since October 2022. In response, part of the team threatened the company with court.

Action about the battles of giant robots from FromSoftware topped the Steam top of the highest-grossing games over the past week (including taking into account fritupley titles). Before that, the top was headed by the role-playing hit Baldur’s Gate 3 for three weeks.

The FunPlus division, which was engaged in the development of an unannounced cross-platform third-person action, may be closed.