Swedish Embracer Group has published a report for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30. The company reported that the quarter’s results exceeded its expectations.

This August, the total user spending on Melsoft Games mobile games for the entire time of the company’s operation reached the billion dollar mark. This is reported by the analytical platform AppMagic.

In an interview with the Taiwanese YouTube channel, Naoki Yoshida, producer of Final Fantasy XVI, admitted that he did not like the abundance of competing consoles on the market too much. In his opinion, it would be easier if there was a single platform.

The number of registered users in the War Robots team action has surpassed the 250 million mark. This was announced by the company MY.GAMES.

The Chinese holding company Tencent has published a report for the second quarter of 2023, which ended on June 30. The company earned less than analysts expected.

Haveli Investments has invested in Candivore, an Israeli mobile studio that developed the Match Masters puzzle. She became a minority shareholder, paying $100 million for a share in the studio.

On May 30, the premiere of the animated film “Spider-Man: The Web of Universes” took place. After its release, many more people began to play games in Marvel’s Spider-Man series, according to the analytical company Ampere Analysis.

Larian Studios has corrected the titles of Baldur’s Gate 3. She added localizers from the Altagram Group outsourcing studio, who complained a week ago that only team leaders got into the credits.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has seriously captivated gamers from the United States, according to analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. According to him, at the end of last week, Americans spent an average of over 300 minutes a day in the game.

Singapore-based technology giant Sea has released a report for the second quarter of 2023 (April 1 – June 30). Its gaming division Garena, which developed Free Fire, has again lost revenue.

Since the beginning of the year, many gaming companies have been actively experimenting with artificial intelligence. IO Interactive is not one of them. In an interview with Gamereactor, representatives of the studio said that they adhere to a conservative approach and work on games without AI solutions.

Netflix games go beyond mobile devices. The company has started a beta test of playing games from the “cloud” on TVs.

The Play Ventures venture Fund, specializing in investments in gaming services and novice game developers, has conducted a new round of financing. As part of it, the fund received at least $78 million.

The Japanese The Pokémon Company will help residents of Hawaii affected by forest fires. She announced a donation of $200,000 through the humanitarian initiative GlobalGiving.

At the end of May, Embracer Group announced the sudden disruption of the $2 billion deal. After that, the company’s shares fell in price by half, and it was forced to begin restructuring. According to sources of the Axios publication, the failed partner was Savvy Games Group, a fund from Saudi Arabia.

The GamesIndustry portal, based on data from the IIDEA association, published statistics on the Italian gaming market.

Wargaming took the second place in the top IT companies in Lithuania in terms of tax deductions in the first half of 2023. In January-June, she paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of €8.2 million. Only €0.3 million less than in the whole of 2022.

MegaMod is a platform where gamers can create their own games. It started working four months ago and has since attracted about 2,900 users.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has another achievement. The novelty of Larian Studios shared with Super Mario Odyssey the first place in the list of games with the highest rating on OpenCritic.