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.

The number of titles in the game search service for publishers and investors WN Game Finder has exceeded 400 pieces, according to the company WN Media Group. The service overcame this milestone two months after launch.

More than half of Russian gamers spend money on in-game purchases, including loot boxes. This is stated in the results of a survey conducted by XYZ School.

The Chinese company miHoYo has reached a new milestone. According to AppMagic estimates, gamers have spent $8 billion in its mobile games to date.

Russian ministries continue to work on a draft law obliging developers to label games by age categories. It became known that the authorities offered special conditions for the authors of educational and other developing content.

Apptica analytical service studied the situation on the mobile gaming market in January-June 2023. We have selected the main thing from the report.

Sony has updated PlayStation 5 sales data. She said she has sold 40 million consoles to date.

The losses of Reality Labs, the XR division of Meta*, continue to grow. In the first half of 2023, they amounted to $7.73 billion. This is $1.9 billion more than in 2022.

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.