The German GAME Association has published a report on the state of the German gaming market over the past year. We have chosen the main thing.

In March, Sensor Tower, an analytical company, announced the purchase of a rival company data.ai . Joost van Dreunen, founder and head of the now-closed SuperData, shared his opinion on the deal in his newsletter. He is pessimistic.

The release of the cooperative horror Content Warning was a significant event for the Landfall Games studio. Thanks to the free distribution on the first day, the game attracted the attention of millions of gamers from all over the world. According to the developers, it continued to be in demand after the end of the campaign.

Electronic Arts (EA) continues to cut staff. Insider Tom Henderson found out that in a few weeks more than 40 testers from the UK who worked on Apex Legends will leave the company.

On April 11, the global strategy Revival: Recolonization was released on PC in full. App2Top talked with Sergey Ulankin, head of console and PC publishing at HeroCraft, about how development was going, how successful early access was, about working with VK Play, and much more.

App2Top brought together representatives of AdQuantum, Appska, Tenjin, AppsFlyer, Adjust and Appier to talk about the current situation in the mobile game advertising market. We discussed AI, the transition to the web, traffic prices and much more.

After Saber Interactive’s exit from the Swedish Embracer Group holding, the company’s CEO Matthew Karch is actively communicating with the press. This time, in an interview with GamesIndustry, he shared his thoughts on the cost of AAA games and their development.

The Swiss publisher of mobile games Miniclip has acquired a non-core asset for itself. The company includes FuturLab studio, which develops games for consoles and PCs and is best known for the PowerWash Simulator.

Yandex has decided to enter the cloud gaming market. She began accepting applications to participate in a closed testing service called “Plus Gaming”.

On March 29, South Korean studio Shift Up released a demo of the futuristic action game Stellar Blade on PlayStation 5 consoles. The game showed excellent results. Analysts from Ampere Analysis estimated that at its peak it attracted almost twice as many daily active users (DAU) as the demo version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth at the time.

The difficult times for gaming companies continue. Ascendant Studios, which created the Immortals of Aveum shooter, forcibly transferred most employees to a long unpaid leave. This is reported by the Game Developer with reference to a LinkedIn post by Phoenix Labs Chief Engineer Chris Morness.

The core of the Cartel Tycoon development team has moved to a new independent studio. It’s called Mind Control Games.

The use of artificial intelligence in game development continues to cause heated debate. This time, Champions TCG studio participated in them. She stated that the artwork for her collectible NFT card game Champions of Otherworldly was made using neural networks. They were created by an “AI artist” alone, to whom she paid tens of thousands of dollars.

There is little talk about games in the Telegram messenger. We decided to fix the situation by talking with Daria Novikova, product director at PlayDeck startup. The latter launched a gaming marketplace for Telegram. In a conversation with Daria, we touched on topics such as user engagement, earnings from leading projects, monetization and, of course, PlayDeck itself.

Hurun Research Institute has published an annual ranking of the world’s largest non-listed companies. The studio miHoYo was among the leaders.

Sandrine Caloiaro, who headed Ubisoft’s portfolio management department, has decided to quit. She worked for the company for ten years.

Ubisoft has announced that its South Korean division will cease to exist after 22 years of operation in the country. The branch will close its doors on April 30, 2024.

World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2 and other Blizzard Entertainment games will return to the Chinese market this summer. The company has signed a new publishing agreement with NetEase.

MY.GAMES regularly shares metrics of its games. This time, she published fresh data on Left to Survive.