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.

Epic Games summarized 2024 for Fortnite. Among other things, it revealed that users who created their games within the battle royale received a total of $352 million in payouts from the company over the year.

Electronic Arts (EA) has lowered its forecast for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 (October-December 2024) and for the entire year. The reason was the lackluster performance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA SPORTS FC 25.

Black Myth: Wukong became one of the phenomena of 2024: just three days after its release, its sales reached 10 million copies, and within a month, they surpassed 20 million copies. The excitement surrounding it spurred investors to pay attention to other developers from China, claims gaming consultant and journalist Daniel Camilo.

The analytical company Sensor Tower has published a report on the state of the mobile app market in 2024. Below is a brief overview of the gaming segment.

Royal Match is one of the highest-grossing mobile puzzle games in the world. The analytics service AppMagic has calculated that since its release in February 2021, gamers have spent a total of $5 billion on it.

The Canadian studio Reflector Entertainment has admitted that the adventure action game Unknown 9: Awakening was a failure. The company has decided to cancel the next game in this universe and reduce its staff.

Owlcat Games has announced that sales of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader have surpassed the one-million mark. It took the game just over a year to reach this milestone; it was released on December 7, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.