The company GDEV boasted the metrics of its farm simulator Island Hoppers. Recently, it announced that the game has earned over $47 million and gathered 20 million downloads since its launch.

The Japanese government has enacted a law prohibiting tech giants such as Apple and Google from restricting the distribution of apps on their platforms. In compliance, Apple will be required to allow third-party app stores on iOS devices in the country.

French mobile publisher Voodoo has acquired a new asset. The company’s portfolio now includes the social network for photo sharing BeReal.

The British company Sumo Group, which has Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Team Sonic Racing, and many other games in its portfolio, is preparing for massive layoffs. It announced plans to lay off up to 15% of its employees in Canada, the United Kingdom, Poland, the Czech Republic, and India.

An art-house adventure about a crazy nun from the studio Odd Meter has sold 55,000 copies in a month on the Steam platform. Considering consoles, sales might surpass 100,000 by the end of June.

A new game publisher has emerged, named Offbrand Games. It was launched under the content agency Offbrand, which was previously founded by streamers Ludwig Ahgren, Nathan Stanz, and Nick Allen.

Lionbridge Technologies is an American company that assists with content localization and software testing. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) reported that the company recently unlawfully terminated its entire team in Boise after local employees decided to unionize.

Take-Two Interactive has decided to sell bonds for a significant amount. It plans to raise $600 million from the sale of securities for “general corporate purposes.”

Following the news about the construction of an IT-city in Dagestan, there was an announcement about the upcoming launch of a video game and animation cluster in Moscow. The cluster will open in the Skolkovo Innovation Center next year.

We continue our series of publications in the category where professionals from gaming companies talk about their careers. The new article in the series is about the work of a 3D artist. Alexey Konzelko, the lead 3D artist at 1C Game Studios, shared what his job entails. [done]

Recently, the creators of Black Myth: Wukong opened pre-orders for the game, and Steam users immediately began placing orders en masse. As a result, for the week of June 4 to June 11, the role-playing action game about the Monkey King climbed to the top of the sales chart, surpassing the portable PC Steam Deck and free-to-play hits like Counter-Strike 2 and Destiny 2.

The organizers of the WN Conference have announced the extension of their collaboration with ChinaJoy, one of the world’s largest gaming expos, for this year.

Capcom announced that Resident Evil Village has surpassed 10 million copies sold faster than any other game in the franchise.

At the Summer Game Fest 2024 presentation, one of the trailers shown was for Squad Busters, Supercell’s new mobile game. In a conversation with GamesIndustry, Supercell’s Head of Marketing Rob Lowe stated that mobile games should be just as integral to such shows as console and PC games.

Playtika is ceasing operations in Belarus. At the end of April, it began the liquidation of the Belarusian legal entity ‘Playtika Bel.’ The portal dev.by discovered this information in the country’s unified state register.

In a month, with the support of App2Top, a business conference titled “Gaming Industry” (GIC) will debut in Russia’s northern capital. Among the participants are Cyberia Nova, HeroCraft, “K-D Lab Association”, Overmobile, and others.

Among the most popular games on Steam, Banana—a free clicker game where you need to click on a picture of a banana—has burst onto the scene. According to SteamDB, on June 10, Banana’s online presence on Valve’s platform reached a record 220,621 users.

The gaming company Geeky House and the Dagestan authorities have officially agreed to create a city-cluster in the region for the development of the IT sector in general, and the gaming industry in particular. They signed the corresponding agreement at SPIEF 2024.

In an interview with IGN, head of Microsoft’s gaming division Phil Spencer commented for the first time on the recent closure of four Bethesda studios, including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin.