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News September 7, 2023

Over a million people played Starfield at the same time on the release

The release version of Starfield turned out to be extremely popular. Phil Spencer announced that on the day of the launch, the total online game exceeded one million people.

Conferences September 6, 2023

The mobile marketing conference MAMA Georgia will be held on October 17 in Tbilisi

In mid-October, the capital of Georgia will host MAMA, a conference on mobile analytics and mobile marketing. According to AppsFlyer, the organizer of the event, 350 participants are expected.

News September 6, 2023

Online Titanfall 2 on Steam has grown 10 times in two days on the background of a discount

Titanfall 2 actively attracts players. At the time of writing the news, over 21.8 thousand people are playing the Steam version of the title at the same time. This is almost 10 times more than on September 4.

News September 6, 2023

Google has previously settled a lawsuit from 37 US states about the Google Play monopoly

Google is ready to sign a settlement agreement with the attorneys general of 37 US states who accused the corporation of abusing power in the Android mobile store market. The legal conflict between them lasts more than two years.

News September 6, 2023

Sumo Group bought developer studio Plunder Pirates and Knighthood

Sumo Group Holding has announced the takeover of the British mobile studio Midoki. According to the company, the purchase will help it increase its presence in the market of free-play games and game services.

News September 6, 2023

Izvestia: in August, sales of PlayStation and Xbox consoles in Russia grew strongly

Sales of game consoles in Russia are on the rise. In a comment to the Izvestia newspaper, Russian retailers reported that PlayStation and Xbox consoles sold significantly better this August than in August 2022.

News September 6, 2023

In 2023, the turnover of Russian playgrounds has more than doubled

Russian gamers began to spend more on domestic playgrounds. In January-July 2023, the turnover of the sites was more than twice as high as in the same period last year.

News September 6, 2023

PlayTracker: the premium edition of Starfield was bought by more than 2 million people

Sales of the premium edition of Starfield alone exceeded 2 million copies, according to the analytical service PlayTracker.

News September 6, 2023

Sea of Stars completed the sales plan for the year in a week

The turn-based retro RPG Sea of Stars started much better than Sabotage Studio expected. In the first week, the game sold over 250 thousand copies. The company expected to achieve such sales in a year.

News September 5, 2023

Study: half of the surveyed game developers have experienced crunches in the last two years

The IATSE trade union, which unites representatives of the entertainment industry, conducted a survey among game developers. According to its results, it turned out that over the past two years, 50% of respondents had to recycle at least once.

News September 5, 2023

Starfield hit the top of the Steam sales chart

Action about the battles of giant robots Armored Core VI gave Starfield the first place in the top of the highest-grossing games on Steam over the past week. Both paid and freeplay titles were taken into account in the top.

News September 5, 2023

Lesta Games switched to a nine-hour working day. UPDATE: we are still talking about an eight-hour day, because, according to the Labor Code, a meal break is not included during working hours

Lesta Games banned employees from working remotely and changed the work schedule, the portal reports dev.by . Since September, developers are required to spend nine hours a day in the office.

News September 5, 2023

Supercell invested in the studio of former Traplight Games executives

Supercell has supported the newly opened Future Run studio. It is unknown how much money she gave and on what terms.

News September 5, 2023

The former head of PlayStation considers companies like Netflix and Amazon one of the biggest threats to the gaming industry

Shawn Layden, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, called corporations that want to enter the video game market “barbarians”. In his opinion, they pose a huge threat to the industry.

News September 5, 2023

Sales of pixel remasters of Final Fantasy exceeded 3 million copies

Square Enix has announced that the games of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series have sold a total of over 3 million copies.

News September 5, 2023

In Russia, the age of deferral from the army for IT specialists will be increased to 30 years

On January 1, 2024, the age limit for IT specialists to receive a deferral from conscription will rise from 27 to 30 years. The corresponding order was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

News September 4, 2023

Tim Sweeney on AI: “Epic Games Store does not ban games for using new technologies”

Tim Sweeney is not against the Epic Games Store (EGS) releasing games created with the help of artificial intelligence. This was stated by the head of Epic Games in a comment to the developer’s tweet, who complained about the Steam rules.

News September 4, 2023

The main thing for the weekend (September 2-3)

The Actors Guild of the USA called for a strike against gaming companies, Bethesda will not give up support for Redfall due to a failed start, sales of Crusader Kings III exceeded 3 million copies, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry over the weekend.

News September 1, 2023

Sony shares rose after the news about the rise in price of the annual PlayStation Plus subscription

On August 30, Sony announced that it would raise the cost of an annual PlayStation Plus subscription by a third in September. Investors took this decision well: at Friday’s trading, the company’s stock price rose by 3.4%.

News September 1, 2023

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation: video games often expose Russia in a bad light and distort history

Dmitry Chernyshenko held a digital lesson in Kazan as part of the marathon “Share your knowledge”. At it, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation called video games a powerful tool of influence and pointed out that they often substitute historical facts, as well as propagandize violence.