Mike Verdu is no longer working at Netflix. The top executive resigned just under four years after joining the company.

The development studio Glera Games is experiencing a series of layoffs. Sources familiar with the situation told App2Top that just in the last two months, the company has parted ways with several dozen employees. In some cases, unethically.

A new week brings a new Steam chart. For the week of March 4-11, the top-grossing products on the platform were once again led by Counter-Strike 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds, but this time they were joined in the top three by Split Fiction.

The APRIORI Association, the Internet Development Institute (IRI), and the legal company “EBR” want to find out what Russian developers think about support for the game development industry in the country. They have launched a special survey.

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the first part of the city-building simulator Cities: Skylines: it was released on March 10, 2015. In celebration, Paradox Interactive announced that over 45 million people have played the duology.

The sooner an indie developer creates a Steam page for their game and starts collecting wishlists, the better. This is the view of game marketing expert Chris Zukowski. In a recent article, he shared basic tips on what to do before launching on the platform.

Anton Tatarinov and Ilya Zakharov from SunStrike shared their experience of setting up external testing with App2Top.

Apple is expected to face a fine in the European Union, according to Reuters sources. The agency reports that the European Commission has decided to impose a fine on the corporation for suppressing competition on iOS, which constitutes a violation of the Digital Market Act (DMA).

The Danish studio Playdead is indeed demanding that its co-founder and former CEO Dino Patti pay $72,600 in compensation due to a post on social media. The studio confirmed its claims in a comment to the portal Game Developer.

The new cooperative adventure by Hazelight Studios is selling multiple times faster than the studio’s previous games. Josef Fares’ team announced that they sold one million copies of Split Fiction just two days after the game’s release.

This morning, on March 10th, it became known that the Institute for Internet Development (IID) proposed that BRICS countries collaborate to regulate the gaming industry. Anton Gorelkin, a member of the Russian State Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, commented on this idea in his Telegram channel.

The Polish studio Reality Games announced the successful acquisition of investments. They received $4.7 million, which they plan to use for further development and testing of a mobile location-based game inspired by Monopoly — Monopoly World.

Online observations have noted that Nintendo has recently entered the top 10 Japanese public companies with the largest market capitalization. It holds the tenth position in the CompaniesMarketCap portal ranking with a valuation of 79.1 billion dollars.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) believes that BRICS countries should collectively engage in regulating the gaming industry. This is stated in a recent study by the organization, reviewed by our colleagues at Forbes.

Let’s return to our series of articles about games that need investments or publishers. The current piece is dedicated to Enemy Inside, a single-player MOBA project with roguelike mechanics by indie studio Six Ways Games.

The market for virtual goods in Counter-Strike 2 reached a record $4.3 billion, Playdead’s co-founder threatened another co-founder of the studio with a lawsuit over a LinkedIn image, and the online presence of Split Fiction on Steam exceeded 259,000 people. Here’s a recap of the major events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The cooperative novelty Split Fiction has attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam. Based on this metric, it has already become the largest release from Hazelight Studios and the second most successful game published by Electronic Arts (EA).

The Canadian law firm Voyer Law has studied over a hundred publishing contracts that indie game developers have signed for consoles and PCs. They shared their insights into what conditions are typically included in such agreements on a specially created website.

A Brazilian court has ordered Apple to allow apps outside the App Store on iOS within the country, mirroring a decision previously implemented in the European Union. The corporation has three months to comply with this mandate.