The number of gamers in China has reached a record level, SCMP reports, citing data from the Association of Audio-Video and Digital Publishers of China. In the first half of 2023, 668 million people in the country played video games. This is almost half of the population of China*.

The district court of the South Korean city of Suwon refused to issue an arrest warrant for Choi Ju-hyun, the managing director of the Ironmace studio. It was requested by the police as part of the proceedings with Nexon.

Remnant II twice beat the original online on Steam, according to media reports, Ubisoft canceled the sequel Immortals Fenyx Rising for the sake of Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, prices for thousands of games rose sharply in the Turkish PS Store — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The German Game Association, together with Goldmedia, has published statistics on the German video game industry.

The number of titles in the game search service for publishers and investors WN Game Finder has exceeded 400 pieces, according to the company WN Media Group. The service overcame this milestone two months after launch.

More than half of Russian gamers spend money on in-game purchases, including loot boxes. This is stated in the results of a survey conducted by XYZ School.

The Chinese company miHoYo has reached a new milestone. According to AppMagic estimates, gamers have spent $8 billion in its mobile games to date.

Russian ministries continue to work on a draft law obliging developers to label games by age categories. It became known that the authorities offered special conditions for the authors of educational and other developing content.

Apptica analytical service studied the situation on the mobile gaming market in January-June 2023. We have selected the main thing from the report.

Sony has updated PlayStation 5 sales data. She said she has sold 40 million consoles to date.

The losses of Reality Labs, the XR division of Meta*, continue to grow. In the first half of 2023, they amounted to $7.73 billion. This is $1.9 billion more than in 2022.

The developers of the UNIGINE engine announced the release of version 2.17. Among other things, stable versions of Vulkan and DirectX 12 became available in it, as well as integration with the Photon network engine.

Paradox Interactive has published a financial report for the first half of 2023. In it, the company announced that Age of Wonders 4, released in May, was included in the list of its most important games.

On July 26, the PC version of Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart was released. According to the SteamDB service, on the premiere day, the peak online games on Steam amounted to 8,757 people. This is one of the worst indicators among games developed by Sony‘s internal studios.

Activision has sued the American music critic Anthony Fantano. According to the company, he threatened to file a lawsuit against her himself if Activision did not pay a six-figure sum for using an audio track from his TikTok video.

SEGA has received all the necessary permits from antitrust regulators to purchase the authors of Angry Birds. This was announced by Rovio in a report for investors.

InnoGames is another gaming company that received a subsidy from the German authorities. She was allocated €1.94 million.

There aren’t as many people working on FromSoftware games as it might seem. In an interview with PC Gamer, the producer of the upcoming Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, Yasunori Ogura, said that now there are only 400 people on the studio staff, 300 of whom are part of the development team.

The way the second part of Remnant was announced at The Game Awards 2022 raised questions. Her trailer was shown at the end of the event mixed with clips of chamber indies. Because of this, it seemed that the organizers of the event did not understand the scale of the success of the first part.