Playkot games are becoming more and more popular. The co-founder of the company, Alexander Pavlov, announced that in July 2023, there were four times more monthly active users in its games than 18 months ago.

Last week, WN Connect Shanghai`23 took place. We share its results and the first results of the ChinaJoy, Asia’s largest exhibition and conference of digital entertainment, held there in Shanghai.

The Merge Hotel Empire mobile game started earning $1 million a month from IAP. This was reported on Facebook* Denis Shevchenko, CEO of the Cyprus studio GreenPixel Games.

Electronic Arts (EA) reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on June 30. We collected the main thing from the company’s documents.

At the end of July, Sony for the first time lowered the prices of the PlayStation 5 in a number of countries, including the UK. According to GfK, because of this, weekly console sales in the British market increased by 75% in units and by 63% in monetary terms.

Composer Yuka Kitamura has quit FromSoftware. She has been writing music for the company’s games for 12 years.

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and its president Karl Slatoff will receive generous compensation payments for the past financial year. In total, they earned $72.25 million.

In the week since the release of Remnant II, it has sold over a million copies, according to Gearbox Publishing. This is more than the company expected.

Azerion Group has announced that it is selling the Youda Games gaming portfolio to Playtika. The maximum size of the transaction is €150 million.

In China, some gamers really don’t like Scaramucci from Genshin Impact. So much so that after his appearance as a cat in one of the game events, they began to kill real cats.

Hyper-casual publisher Popcore Games, which is part of the Take-Two family, has reduced staff. The dismissals were reported by MobileGamer portal with reference to the posts of former employees on social networks.

On the evening of July 31, a fundraising campaign for the Ratatan rhythm game, a new project from the authors of Patapon, began on Kickstarter. It was funded very quickly. The game reached the starting goal in 47 minutes.

The South Korean MMORPG Odin: Valhalla Rising shows excellent results. Sensor Tower analysts estimate that the mobile version of the game has earned more than $900 million in two years since its release.

StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg shared statistics on game views on Twitch for June. The most popular game of the month was Diablo IV, which streams collected 156 million hours of views.

Electronic Arts (EA) general manager Samantha Ryan has quit the company. She worked at EA for eight and a half years.

The number of gamers in China has reached a record level, SCMP reports, citing data from the Association of Audio-Video and Digital Publishers of China. In the first half of 2023, 668 million people in the country played video games. This is almost half of the population of China*.

The district court of the South Korean city of Suwon refused to issue an arrest warrant for Choi Ju-hyun, the managing director of the Ironmace studio. It was requested by the police as part of the proceedings with Nexon.

Remnant II twice beat the original online on Steam, according to media reports, Ubisoft canceled the sequel Immortals Fenyx Rising for the sake of Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, prices for thousands of games rose sharply in the Turkish PS Store — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

The German Game Association, together with Goldmedia, has published statistics on the German video game industry.