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.

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Pyotr Tolstoy, announced that today, January 21, the first meeting of the Duma’s working group on video games took place.

Marketers Andrey Odintsov and Petr Tsap conducted a study of pricing strategies on Steam. They identified success criteria for different price categories on the platform and shared the recommended investment size for each.

Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the Origin launcher will soon be discontinued. It will be shut down on April 17.

The Russian authorities continue to work on a legislative bill aimed at regulating the video game market in the country. According to TASS, a special inter-factional working group has been formed in the State Duma to refine the bill.

For the week from January 14 to January 21, the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam was dominated by multiplayer games. The first place went to PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS — the battle royale from KRAFTON pushed the previous five-week leader, Counter-Strike 2, to the second position.

On the morning of January 21, the collectible card game Marvel Snap resumed operations in the USA after a two-day outage that occurred amid a temporary TikTok ban in the country. During this period, its developers missed out on substantial revenue.