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.

Titanfall 2 actively attracts players. At the time of writing the news, over 21.8 thousand people are playing the Steam version of the title at the same time. This is almost 10 times more than on September 4.

Google is ready to sign a settlement agreement with the attorneys general of 37 US states who accused the corporation of abusing power in the Android mobile store market. The legal conflict between them lasts more than two years.

Sumo Group Holding has announced the takeover of the British mobile studio Midoki. According to the company, the purchase will help it increase its presence in the market of free-play games and game services.

Sales of game consoles in Russia are on the rise. In a comment to the Izvestia newspaper, Russian retailers reported that PlayStation and Xbox consoles sold significantly better this August than in August 2022.

Russian gamers began to spend more on domestic playgrounds. In January-July 2023, the turnover of the sites was more than twice as high as in the same period last year.

Sales of the premium edition of Starfield alone exceeded 2 million copies, according to the analytical service PlayTracker.

The turn-based retro RPG Sea of Stars started much better than Sabotage Studio expected. In the first week, the game sold over 250 thousand copies. The company expected to achieve such sales in a year.

The IATSE trade union, which unites representatives of the entertainment industry, conducted a survey among game developers. According to its results, it turned out that over the past two years, 50% of respondents had to recycle at least once.

Action about the battles of giant robots Armored Core VI gave Starfield the first place in the top of the highest-grossing games on Steam over the past week. Both paid and freeplay titles were taken into account in the top.

Lesta Games banned employees from working remotely and changed the work schedule, the portal reports dev.by . Since September, developers are required to spend nine hours a day in the office.