During the WN iGaming Summit’24, a presentation was held by the Director of Business Development for Google Ads in Europe, Iordanis Papadopoulos. He shared current information on the service’s policy regarding iGaming resources and gambling-related content.

The service Balancy, which simplifies LiveOps for game teams, is expanding the number of supported engines. It has introduced an SDK for games created on the Cocos Creator engine and in the TypeScript language.

Alexander Zhuravlev is the managing partner of the law firm “EBR” and a member of the working group at the Russian Ministry of Digital Development for video games. He spoke to the newspaper “Kommersant” about the nuances of the bill that regulates the gaming industry in Russia. Below are the key points from the interview.

Xbox will continue to release its games on competitor platforms, Cooking Simulator and Underdose developers suffered a hacker attack, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth became the second most popular game in the series on Steam — here’s a recap of the major events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

App2Top concludes the summary of 2024 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. For the second time in this year’s summary, we spoke with Alexander Mikheev for the final installment. This time, he answered questions as the CEO of APRIORI.

App2Top continues to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming sector-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Marina Lopatkina, the Business Development Director at the recruitment agency WN Talents.

Epic Games has expanded the catalog of the mobile version of the Epic Games Store (EGS). Now, in addition to its own games, the store also features games from third-party companies.

App2Top continues to summarize the outcomes of 2024 with gaming (or game industry-related) teams and experts. This time, the editorial team spoke with Nikita Bokarev, the Head of Business Development at “Yandex Games“.

Love and Deepspace is a mobile romantic gacha game in which the main character destroys alien monsters and goes on dates. The game has achieved a major milestone. The creators of Love and Deepspace announced that it has been launched by 50 million people worldwide within a year of its release.

Gamelight is a mobile UA platform for game developers and publishers. We spoke with its founder, Günay Azer, about the startup’s approach to data handling, its proprietary AI algorithm, rewarding ads, and much more.

The co-chairman of the supervisory board and co-founder of CD PROJEKT, Marcin Iwiński, recently sold 223,520 shares of the Polish company. This is stated in CD PROJEKT’s report.

The publisher Knights Peak Interactive has shared updated sales figures for Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It announced that the RPG from Owlcat Games has been purchased more than 2 million times worldwide.

The analytics company Circana has published data on the US gaming market for 2024. Here are the key takeaways.

Dungeon & Fighter Mobile was released in China in May 2024 and became a huge success for Tencent and Nexon. According to analysts from Niko Partners, by the end of last year, the mobile game earned nearly $2.5 billion in China.

The studio Pocketpair has announced the creation of Pocketpair Publishing, a publishing division that will collaborate with indie developers.

The British company group Team17 has decided to rebrand. It announced that starting February, it will operate under the name Everyplay Group.

In recent days, Russian media have begun circulating reports that the Russian studio AIHASTO, which developed the highly popular anime horror MiSide, allegedly receives a minuscule share of the revenue despite significant sales.

On the evening of January 22, Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the new Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC are selling below expectations, forcing the company to revise its financial forecast. It was revealed that on the eve of the announcement, its CEO Andrew Wilson disposed of a significant amount of his shares in the company.

In less than a month, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host a conference for game developers and publishers organized by WN Media Group. Speakers from Ubisoft, Google, MY.GAMES, Sandsoft Games, Razer, Holodeck Ventures, and many other companies have confirmed their participation.