The Finnish company Rovio has published a financial report for the second quarter of 2023. She reported a drop in almost all key indicators.

The team joined Rockstar Games Cfx.re , known for FiveM and RedM, the company’s multiplayer game frameworks. All terms of cooperation are not disclosed.

Based on the AppMagic database, App2Top editors have prepared a report on the most downloaded and highest-grossing mobile games in July.

In recent years, China has been actively fighting children’s addiction to video games. However, the measures taken by the authorities have not yet brought the desired result, — researchers from York University and a number of other scientific organizations came to this conclusion.

This morning we already wrote that Overwatch 2 showed a bad start on Steam. As it turned out, the user rating of the game turned out to be so low that it became the worst release of 2023 on Steam according to SteamDB among more than 7,300 titles.

The dark adventure game INSIDE could have become a temporary PlayStation exclusive if Phil Spencer hadn’t intervened. This was told by the former CEO of the Playdead studio, Dino Patti, as part of the Arkaden podcast.

On August 10, Overwatch 2 was released on Steam, which became the first Blizzard Entertainment game on the Valve platform. Steam users met her coolly: now the project has 17% positive reviews.

KRAFTON continues to actively conduct business in India. She announced that over the next two to three years she will spend $150 million to invest in the country’s gaming ecosystem.

The Swedish company G5 Entertainment has reported on the results of the second quarter of 2023. Compared to last year, the revenue of the entire company fell by 10%, at the same time, the revenues of the browser-based G5 Store app store increased by 106% at once.

Details of the next WN Conference have become known. It will be held in mid-September in Limassol. Among the speakers are Owlcat Games, Playkot, Tactile Games, Nexters, AWS, Google, Meta* and many others. More about the event is in our material.

Telltale Games has become the owner of the British studio Flavourworks, specializing in games in the interactive cinema format. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Gaming expert Simon Carless tried to figure out how the New & Trending tab or “Popular New Items” on Steam works. We share his conclusions.

The value of Roblox shares declined sharply after the release of the company’s financial report for the second quarter of 2023 (April-June). They sank by 21.97% to $29.45 apiece. The last time Roblox shares traded at this price was in early January.

Roblox has shared its optimistic plans. As part of the financial report for the second quarter of 2023, she stated that she expects to increase the daily active audience (DAU) of her platform to 1 billion people in the future.

The credits of Baldur’s Gate 3 did not include ordinary localizers from Altagram Group, an outsourcing studio that worked on translating subtitles for the game into several languages. Only the team leaders got there.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has become one of the best games released in 2023, according to Metacritic users. Now, with a rating of 9.3 points out of 10, it ranks second in the list of the most highly appreciated novelties by gamers.

In China, they began to require all publishers of mobile games and applications to report to the local regulatory authority. This is reported by Reuters with reference to the decree of the Ministry of Industry and Informatization of China (MIIT).

In the three months since the release of Honkai: Star Rail has earned $490 million on mobile platforms alone. This is reported by the analytical company Sensor Tower.

Sony has published a financial report for April-June 2023. We tell you how the quarter went for the gaming division of the company.