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News December 11, 2024

Analyst: Delta Force’s audience in China has exceeded 40 million players

Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad reported that the Chinese “beta” of Delta Force was played by over 40 million people. In China, it launched on PC earlier than in the rest of the world—on September 26, 2024.

Итоги 2024 December 11, 2024

“Kian Khozauri from ByteBrew on the results of 2024: ‘We made it into the top ten most popular SDKs'”

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Next in line is an interview with Kian Hozouri, the COO and co-founder of the analytics service ByteBrew.

News December 11, 2024

Media: Kadokawa employees want Sony to buy the company and fire the president

Last month, it became known that Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, a Japanese media conglomerate whose subsidiary includes FromSoftware. Bunshun reported that Kadokawa employees are hopeful for a successful deal outcome.

News December 11, 2024

The studio of the former president of Rockstar North has acquired the creators of a card game set in the Warhammer universe

Build A Rocket Boy announced the acquisition of a new studio. The acquisition involves PlayFusion, the team behind the card games Lightseekers and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions.

News December 11, 2024

The creators of Genshin Impact won a lawsuit for $1.05 million against cheat developers

The Chinese company miHoYo won a lawsuit in Canada against the developers of cheat software Akebi GC, Acrepi, and Genshin XYZ. These programs allowed players to bypass rules in Genshin Impact.

Итоги 2024 December 11, 2024

“The free prologue of KIBORG was played by more than 100,000 people,” says Dmitry Kachkov from Sobaka Studio about the results of 2024

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams in the gaming industry (or closely related to it). Up next is an interview with the director of Sobaka Studio, Dmitry Kachkov.

News December 11, 2024

The medieval combat simulator Half Sword has garnered 600,000 wishlists on Steam

Publisher Game Seer shared the successes of Half Sword with GameDiscoverCo. This is the debut project from the similarly named studio, Half Sword Games.

News December 11, 2024

Nintendo has fully absorbed the studio behind Xenoblade Chronicles

Nintendo has acquired 100% of the shares of the Japanese studio Monolith Soft, known for the Xenoblade Chronicles series. This information appeared on the Monolith Soft website, as noted by Automaton Media.

News December 11, 2024

Over the 11 months of 2024, Chinese developers spent more than 60 million rubles on promoting apps in RuStore

Developers from China are investing significant funds in advertising their games and applications on the Russian marketplace RuStore. According to VK’s estimates, from January to November 2024, they spent over 60 million rubles promoting through the “VK Advertising” platform.

News December 11, 2024

People Can Fly is conducting layoffs and freezing the development of Project Victoria due to a change in strategy

The Polish company People Can Fly has decided to focus more on developing games in partnership with other companies. These include Project Gemini, which is being developed in collaboration with Square Enix, and Project Maverick, with support from Microsoft.

Итоги 2024 December 10, 2024

“Increased production by 4-5 times compared to last year,” Vera Velichko from OWL Studio on the results of 2024

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Next up is an interview with Vera Velichko, the CEO of the outsourcing company OWL studio.

News December 10, 2024

Connections and Palworld — the most searched games on Google in 2024

The Google team has compiled a list of the most popular search queries of the outgoing year. In the “Games” category, the leader was Connections—a word puzzle from The New York Times, where you need to group words by meaning.

News December 10, 2024

Microsoft, EA, and Take-Two ranked among the most efficiently managed public companies in the US in 2024

The Drucker Institute has published its annual ranking of public companies in the United States with the most effective management. Among them is a number of companies related to gaming.

Итоги 2024 December 10, 2024

“We need to deliver a product that surpasses the current usual level for players to have a chance at getting a reaction from the audience and the Steam algorithms,” said Anton Mikhailov from Tortuga Team on the results of 2024

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with gaming (or game-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Anton Mikhaylov, the creative director of the indie studio Tortuga Team.

News December 10, 2024

The Japanese studio Enish will lay off some employees on New Year’s Eve

Enish is a Japanese mobile studio known for games like De:Lithe Last Memories and 進撃の巨人 Brave Order. The company decided to give its employees an unpleasant New Year’s gift by cutting part of its workforce.

News December 10, 2024

Dauntless’s rating on Steam has dropped to 14%. Players are dissatisfied with the new owner of the project — the blockchain platform Forte

Dauntless reached its release on Steam five years after the original launch. Users greeted it, to put it mildly, coldly. Currently, Dauntless has an “overwhelmingly negative” rating on Steam with only 14% positive reviews.

News December 10, 2024

Path of Exile 2 — leader of the weekly Steam sales chart

The latest achievement from Grinding Gear Games is another milestone. Path of Exile 2 topped the list of the best-selling products on Steam for the week ending December 10th.

News December 10, 2024

“Funko called my mom”: The creator of itch.io talked about the temporary site block due to a fake Funko Fusion game page

The owner of itch.io, Leaf Corcoran, provided a detailed comment regarding yesterday’s website outages.

News December 10, 2024

In four years, Rush Royale earned $370 million

Recently, Rush Royale celebrated its fourth anniversary: the game’s global release took place on December 8, 2020. In honor of the anniversary, MY.GAMES updated the project’s performance metrics.

News December 10, 2024

In Palworld, they have changed the summoning mechanics for creatures, which had been criticized by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company

One of the latest patches for Palworld removed the ability to summon captured creatures by throwing special spheres onto the field. Developers have not commented on the change, but it’s speculated online that it was made due to a legal dispute with the Pokémon franchise owners.