Dan Forden, who managed the sound for all the main games in the Mortal Kombat series, is no longer working at NetherRealm Studios. He announced his departure on social media.

Capcom continues to report high audience interest in the next part of Resident Evil. The company announced that Resident Evil Requiem has been added to the wishlist by 2 million people—this number accounts for wishlists on both PC and consoles.

It took Megabonk two weeks to hit the million mark.

Employees of the British branch of ZA/UM have formed a union called the ZA/UM Workers’ Alliance. This is the first officially recognized such union in a game studio in the country.

Corporate training is a powerful tool for employee development. Its effectiveness largely depends on proper organization. Alawar shared with App2Top their experience in organizing a time management training session. They discussed the challenges they faced, how they addressed them, and highlighted the risks that should be considered in such training sessions.

Starbreeze announced the cancellation of Project Baxter, a cooperative game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The company decided to write off the development costs and lay off some developers.

American gamer Ruben Valenzuela has filed a lawsuit against King and its parent company Activision Blizzard. The reason is the All Stars tournament for Candy Crush Saga — the developers allegedly create the impression among participants that their chances of winning are higher than they actually are.

Although Dune: Awakening achieved the best launch sales in Funcom’s history, it did not save its developers from layoffs. The studio announced a restructuring.

11 bit studios is one of Poland’s most renowned companies, known for producing hits like Frostpunk and publishing indie titles from third-party developers. Today, the studio finds itself at a crossroads, facing a series of financial challenges. How it arrived at this point is the focus of today’s article.

Ubisoft has officially launched Vantage Studios, its subsidiary created in collaboration with Tencent.

The game’s creators, two Italian developers from the Panik Arcade studio, announced this on its Steam page.

We continue our section “Looking for a Developer/Publisher,” where indie teams share their projects. Up next is iWorlds, developing the psychedelic game Dark Trip, where solving puzzles involves taking medication. The creators are also inspired by fetish franchises.

WN Media Group has announced the upcoming WN C-Level Summit — a special event where owners, founders, and CEOs of gaming companies will gather. It will take place on December 11 in the largest city of the UAE.

Vizor Games has laid off some employees at its Minsk office. In a conversation with the portal dev.by, the dismissed specialists mentioned that more than two dozen people lost their jobs, primarily artists.

Tom Stone, the former Managing Director of TT Games, led the company for nearly 18 years. He recently officially launched a new studio called Second Star Games.

The decision by Electronic Arts (EA) to sell to a group of investors has concerned BioWare employees, writes the portal Insider Gaming. According to their report, the studio is anticipating massive layoffs.

SteamDB published a list of the top-grossing games on Steam for the period of September 23-30. Here are the key takeaways.

About the key features of Telegram as a gaming platform and how to build marketing within it, Evgenia Shpeit, marketing lead at PlayDeck, and Oksana Vasilyeva, project manager at StepMania, shared their insights in an article for App2Top.

This is the result of less than a year of the company’s existence: Polden Publishing officially opened in November 2024.