Another report on the gaming industry has been released. The Italian Association of Interactive Digital Entertainment (IIDEA) spoke about the situation in Italy.

GamedevDou portal talked to Lithuanian developers about the state of the Lithuanian gaming industry. We have selected the key facts.

On Friday, August 4, Square Enix published a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. In it, the company reported a significant drop in profits.

Final Fantasy XVI is selling worse than Square Enix expected. This was stated by the company’s president Takashi Kiryu during a briefing on the results of the last quarter, Bloomberg reports, citing three people who attended the event.

Baldur’s Gate 3 took ninth place in the top games on Steam with the largest online in history, Valve demanded to stop monetizing custom modes for Dota 2, the circulation of the Metal Gear series exceeded 60 million copies — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

PlayStation 5 took 142 weeks for its sales in the Japanese market to reach 4 million copies, according to Game Data Library. Less than the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 at the time.

Guilty Gear -Drive has a new milestone. Arc System Works studio announced that more than 2.5 million people around the world have played the fighting game.

Unity company summed up the results of the second quarter of 2023. Among other things, it reported an 80% increase in revenue.

Sensor Tower analysts have announced a new achievement of the Royal Match puzzle from Dream Games. Since its release in February 2021, by the end of June 2023, it has earned more than $1.2 billion. We are talking only about revenue in Google Play and the App Store, taking into account the versions for AppGallery and other Android stores, its revenue is even higher.

There is one less gaming company in Russia. On July 31, Black Caviar Games, which was developing and publishing mobile games, announced its closure.

GEM Capital investment group plans to invest $50 million in game developers over the next two years. The priority is studios from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Cyprus.

After three years of early access, Baldur’s Gate 3 was officially released on PC on August 3. The game immediately became a hit. Six hours after the release, 472,136 Steam users were playing the RPG from Larian Studios at the same time.

Gaming expert Simon Carless has found out what the chances are of releasing a successful game on the Nintendo Switch in 2023. To do this, he analyzed the lists of the most downloaded games in the United States.

On July 27, the Roblox open beta test for Meta* VR headsets began. According to Roblox CEO David Baszucki, in the first five days, the owners of Quest 2 and Quest Pro downloaded the VR version of the platform “much” more than a million times.

VK continues to develop the RuStore mobile marketplace. She announced that developers can now place applications adapted for Android-based Smart TV in the store.

In Russia, they may begin to grant a deferral from conscription to IT specialists not only with higher, but also with secondary vocational education in the IT field. The Ministry of Finance has sent a corresponding proposal to the government and the Ministry of Defense, the Izvestia newspaper reports.

Capcom has published fresh data on sales of “platinum” games — games that have sold over a million copies.

Nintendo reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. The company reported the highest operating profit in the history of the first quarters.

Nintendo has updated its game sales data for the Nintendo Switch. By June 30, 2023, it had sold a total of 1.088 billion titles.