The South Korean company KRAFTON is an active investor. Its CEO, Changhan Kim, shared in an interview with Bloomberg that over the past two years, the owner of PUBG has allocated approximately $680 million for the purchase and investment in gaming studios.

Recently in China, Where Winds Meet—a role-playing game from Everstone Studio and NetEase—was released for PC and smartphones. The game’s setting takes place during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. At least on mobile devices, the new release has shown excellent initial results.

Continuing to sum up the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Andrey Voronkov, Deputy Director of the Internet Development Institute (IDI).

The start of the first season led to a record number of online players for Marvel Rivals on Steam. Jason Schreier believes that game budgets are growing largely due to inefficient management. The Russian Duma chairperson stated that Russia does not plan to completely ban video games. We report on the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Will McCahill, Business Development Director at the American studio World’s Edge, analyzed the positivity level of user reviews on Steam from 2014 to 2024. According to his observations, reviews have become more negative over time, and this trend is visible in all languages.

Let’s continue reviewing the outcomes of 2024 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and its related fields). Next up is an interview with Dmitry Bobrov, the CEO of ZiMAD.

The remaster of the zombie action game Lollipop Chainsaw is selling well. Developers from Dragami Games announced that within four months, the game had sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.

Swedish holding company Enad Global 7 (EG7) continues to downsize its teams. The latest cuts will affect two of its subsidiary studios: Toadman Interactive and Piranha Games.

The Portuguese gambling regulator (SRIJ) shared the latest data on the legal online gambling market in the third quarter of 2024. We have highlighted the key points from the report.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with game-related teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Nikita Matsokin, Executive Director at MGVC.

On the evening of January 9, Ubisoft informed investors that it had taken “decisive steps” to reorganize its business. The company appointed consultants to help the French company increase its profits and enhance the value of its assets and franchises.

The British publisher Slitherine and the Russian studio Steel Balalaika have announced that the real-time strategy Broken Arrow has been added to the wishlist by over 800,000 Steam users.

On December 17, 2024, Netflix released Squid Game: Unleashed, a mobile multiplayer game set in the universe of the “Squid Game” series, on its streaming service. This release came ahead of the second season premiere of the show. According to data from the analytics platform AppMagic, the new game had a successful launch.

Since the release of NetEase’s free-to-play superhero action game Marvel Rivals, a little over a month has passed: the game debuted on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox on December 6, 2024. The Chinese portal GameLook, based on their data, attempted to calculate the game’s initial revenue.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Arturo Beresnev, CEO of the Alternative Stores Publishing division at Mamboo.

Scopely is one of the most successful publishers and developers of mobile games. In their official blog, the company revealed several milestones it reached by the end of the last year.

The Guillemot family, who founded Ubisoft, and the Chinese giant Tencent have postponed discussions about acquiring the company, according to insider Tom Henderson. His sources suggest that both parties decided to wait for the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows in February 2025.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with gaming (or game industry-related) teams and experts. Next, we have an interview with Vladimir Markov, CEO of Top App Games.

The Russian authorities intend to protect the country’s residents from “destructive content” in video games. This was announced by the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, on his Telegram channel.