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.

In the summer of 2023, Capcom‘s capitalization exceeded $11 billion for the first time. As Bloomberg noted, the publisher’s shares are now worth 1207.7% more than a decade ago.

The Polish CD PROJEKT group of companies is going to cut 9% of employees — that’s about 100 people. According to CEO Adam Kiciński, there are too many people working at CD PROJEKT right now.

Capcom also shared the results of the last quarter, which ended on June 30, 2023. In the report, the company talked about the growth of all the main indicators.

Microsoft has published a report for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on June 30. According to analysts, this period was the second best fourth quarter for the gaming division of the corporation.

In November 2022, Rollic Games, a subsidiary of Take-Two, announced the purchase of the German developer and publisher of mobile games Popcore Games. It became known that the takeover cost $199.2 million or €180 million.

The European Commission has supported the proposal of the Belgian government to create a tax haven in the country for companies that invest money in game studios.

The third issue of Games and Names, a podcast about the gaming industry from AppMagic and WN Media Group, has been released. This time his guest was Thibault de Vésinne-Larue, Voodoo‘s head of publishing. We share a brief squeeze of the release.

Indie developer and consultant Rami Ismail has posted a game pitch template in the public domain. It will help beginners avoid common mistakes during the presentation of projects to a publisher or investor.

In the UK, a class action lawsuit was brought against Apple for £785 million, or about $ 1 billion. The subject of the claim is a high commission in the App Store.

VK has allowed foreign developers to earn money on applications published in RuStore. Monetization tools have become available to them.

Capcom has announced that more than a million people have played Exoprimal. The figure takes into account both Game Pass subscribers and gamers who have purchased the game on other platforms.