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.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has updated the record for peak online on Steam, Activision has withdrawn a lawsuit against a music critic who allegedly blackmailed the company, Remedy reported a quarterly loss of €4.8 million, — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

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.