At the end of last week, Bilibili removed the Uma Musume Pretty Derby game from Chinese Android stores and the App Store. The official reason is technical work, but the network suspects that it was deleted at the request of the authorities.

A wave of layoffs affected the analytical company Sensor Tower. The TechCrunch portal reports that over 40 people have lost their jobs.

On July 30, the Japanese mobile RPG Fate/Grand Order turned eight years old. With a slight delay, Sensor Tower analysts shared statistics on the game.

Puzzles are one of the most popular genres of mobile games. Sensor Tower analysts looked at what results it has achieved over the past 11 years* and listed the most successful subgenres.

The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 became extremely successful: only on Steam the peak online game exceeded 875 thousand people. It is not known for sure how many people bought the game in total, but Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast are very pleased with the results of the project.

On September 7, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, a mobile adaptation of the seventh part of Final Fantasy. The very next day, the game’s downloads exceeded 2 million.

More than half of parents living in Russia believe that video games do not harm their children. This conclusion was reached by Astrum Entertainment, which interviewed 6 thousand people.

A court in Japan has sentenced 53-year-old Shinobu Yoshida, who posted a video on YouTube with the passage of the visual novel STEINS;GATE: My Darling’s Embrace. He was given two years in prison with a five-year suspended sentence.

Bethesda announced that the audience of Starfield exceeded 6 million people. The game showed the most successful start for the entire existence of the company.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that it has not canceled plans for E3 in 2024. But the exhibition will not take place on the territory of the Los Angeles Convention Center — the traditional E3 venue.

The authors of the Midjourney neural network, which generates images based on a text description, earn well from their interest in AI. According to the sources of The Information, in 2023 the revenue of the company of the same name will exceed $ 200 million.

A new course will start on the WN Academy training program marketplace next Tuesday. It is dedicated to the development and launch of advertising campaigns. The author is Kirill Oreshkin, who previously worked at Wargaming and Zorka.Agency.

The Rainbow Six Mobile tactical shooter has not yet been released, but it has already attracted a large number of gamers. According to the head of Ubisoft Yves Guillemot, the Android version of the game alone has collected 17 million pre-registrations.

A new version of the Unreal Engine — Unreal Engine 5.3 — has become available for download. It has improved the rendering, animation and modeling systems.

At the end of June, The Wall Street Journal reported that YouTube is conducting internal testing of the service with embedded games called Playables. On September 5, the video hosting officially announced the launch of a public beta test.

Elisabeth Pellen has resigned as creative director of the pirate action game Skull and Bones. She became the third creative director to leave the game team.

The release version of Starfield turned out to be extremely popular. Phil Spencer announced that on the day of the launch, the total online game exceeded one million people.

In mid-October, the capital of Georgia will host MAMA, a conference on mobile analytics and mobile marketing. According to AppsFlyer, the organizer of the event, 350 participants are expected.