On August 4, Square Enix released a smartphone role—playing action based on the manga “Steel Alchemist” – Fullmetal Alchemist Mobile. Japanese gamers (and only they can play for now) warmly welcomed the title. According to the GameLook portal, the game took second place in downloads in the local App Store and is still on it.

The release of the new part of the mystical western Hard West 2 has had a good impact on the stock price of the Polish Ice Code Games. The game was released on Thursday, August 4, and by Friday the studio’s shares had risen by 61% to 0.79 zloty apiece. On Monday morning, they were trading at a price of 1.08 zloty — an increase of 120%.

According to analyst Daniel Ahmad, the hotel will open in August. It will be based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.

The fighting game Guilty Gear -Strike – became the best-selling game published by Arc System Works. It also surpassed all other parts of the series in the number of copies sold.

Fines until the end of the year can be canceled for equipment that was imported into Russia through parallel import. This is reported by Vedomosti with reference to a representative of the ministry.

We are studying the Steam sales chart for 31 weeks of the year.

Sony conducted a survey about NFT on PlayStation, a GameStop NFT platform user was caught trading tokens with indie games without the permission of developers, and Meta* suspended a deal with the creators of the Supernatural VR game after a lawsuit from the FTC – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Mobile developers are actively making games based on existing IP in the hope of breaking into the charts. According to Newzoo estimates, last year only one novelty in the top 100 most downloaded games on iOS did not use IP – Soccer Super Star.

The Shanghai court sentenced three developers who created and sold cheats for Genshin Impact. They were all given different deadlines. The head of the group received four years in prison, one of his assistants — 3 years and 10 months, and the other assistant — 1.5 years.

Previously, the company was a little more modest. Bandai Namco expected that by September 30 (then it will end the first half of fiscal 2023) it will earn exactly $3 billion in sales.

It is not reported on what conditions the transaction took place. But it is known that VIC Game Studios is going to invest in the development of new games.

The creator of League of Legends decided to strengthen his position in the Asia-Pacific region. According to Alexey Krainov, managing director of Riot Games, the new office will be responsible for publishing games and developing esports.

The figure was shared by game analyst Serkan Toto, who referred to the Mobile Content Forum study.

The startup Magic Kids, headquartered in New York, believes in educational games, UGC for teachers, children’s multiplayer, and at the same time is looking for a million dollars to scale. About fate and challenges, — in his column for App2Top.ru Olga Vorontsova told the CPO of the team.

Square Enix announced this during the presentation of the quarterly report to investors, analyst David Gibson says on Twitter. What exactly the company meant is not explained.

Square Enix investors were satisfied with the financial report of the Japanese publisher, although the company reported a drop in revenue.

Activision Blizzard did not provide the court with evidence that the salary of its employees does not depend on gender. Earlier, the company specifically analyzed the income of employees, but, apparently, did not submit the results of the study to the court. Now she has to give them to California officials right away.

The Belgian law banning loot boxes in games does not work properly. This conclusion was reached by researcher Leon Yu . Xiao (Leon Y. Xiao). He stated that the law is mostly observed by large companies, while small studios have not changed anything in their titles, while the authorities do not pay attention to violations.

The publisher of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery and Cookie Jam has reduced 17% of the staff, leaving 150-200 people out of work. As Jam City explained, the company had to do so because of the difficulties in the global economy that affected the gaming industry.