Despite the difficulties of recent years, game studios continue to open and operate in Russia. An overview of the current state of regulation, primarily tax, for such companies was prepared by Roman Motorin, a lawyer at Versus.legal.

Restructuring in the Embracer Group will lead to the closure of a number of studios, the head of the holding, Lars Wingefors, said at the annual meeting. He did not specify which studios would be affected.

On September 21, the Embracer Group held its annual meeting. During the question and answer session, the head of the Swedish holding company Lars Wingefors called the amount that the company spends on commissions for Steam, PlayStation Store and other gaming stores “insane”.

The British developer and publisher Team17 has published a financial report for the first half of 2023. We share the main thing from it.

On September 14, the global release of the mobile AR game Monster Hunter Now took place. A week later, the developers announced that the number of downloads of the title reached 5 million.

The Finnish studio Spectarium, founded by top managers Plarium and Janeious, closed the seed round of financing. She received €5 million from investors. The money will be used to create a mythical RPG called Myths, built on an AI engine.

Based on the AppMagic data, the App2Top editors have prepared material about the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games of the past month.

India is the fastest growing gaming market in Asia in terms of both revenue and the number of gamers. The analytical company Niko Partners predicts that in 2027 there will be 343% more gamers in the country than in 2017.

OpenAI has introduced the third generation of the DALL-E neural network for image generation. One of its key features is integration with the chat bot ChatGPT.

The restructuring of Embracer Group affected another subsidiary studio of the Swedish holding. Now layoffs have taken place in Crystal Dynamics, known for the Tomb Raider series of games.

The founder and CEO of Striking Distance Studios, Glen Schofield, has decided to resign. Along with him, the Chief Operating Officer and the Chief Financial Officer are also leaving the studio.

Ubisoft shared the success of The Crew Motorfest. During the debut week, the race sold more copies than the rest of the series at the time.

Over the past week, there have been many developers who have decided to abandon the Unity engine and switch to other platforms. To help them, AppLovin has released Unifree, a tool that allows you to transfer the code of games written for Unity to the Unreal Engine, Godot and Cocos engines.

From January to August 2023, Russians spent 135 billion rubles on video games, according to a study by XYZ School. They gave 21% of the amount, or 28 billion rubles, to resellers and intermediary platforms.

Brawl Stars became the fourth Supercell title in which players spent more than $2 billion. This is reported by the analytical company data.ai .

In the miHoYo manual permutations. One of the founders of the company and its largest shareholder Cai Haoyu has left the post of chairman.

Re-Logic studio, which developed the game Terraria, supported the creators of the open engines Godot and FNA. She announced that she had donated $100,000 to each team.

On September 19, the full release of Mortal Kombat 1 took place: before that, the game was available only to those who bought the premium edition. Her peak online on Steam immediately reached 38,129 people.

On September 18, a lot of confidential Microsoft documents appeared on the web, published as evidence in court with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, a significant part of them is already outdated.