Brawl Stars became the fourth Supercell title in which players spent more than $2 billion. This is reported by the analytical company data.ai .

In the miHoYo manual permutations. One of the founders of the company and its largest shareholder Cai Haoyu has left the post of chairman.

Re-Logic studio, which developed the game Terraria, supported the creators of the open engines Godot and FNA. She announced that she had donated $100,000 to each team.

On September 19, the full release of Mortal Kombat 1 took place: before that, the game was available only to those who bought the premium edition. Her peak online on Steam immediately reached 38,129 people.

On September 18, a lot of confidential Microsoft documents appeared on the web, published as evidence in court with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, a significant part of them is already outdated.

Bethesda has shared the latest data on Starfield. The company announced that the audience of the space RPG exceeded 10 million people. The figure takes into account Game Pass subscribers.

You will have to fork out a lot for the expansion of the Game Pass library. Microsoft management came to such conclusions, according to a leaked internal correspondence that appeared on the website of the District Court of Northern California.

The anime gacha shooter Goddess of Victory: Nikke has overcome a major milestone. According to Sensor Tower, since its release in November 2022, the game has raised half a billion dollars on mobile devices.

The total revenue of Honkai: Star Rail has exceeded $ 1 billion since the release of the game in April 2023, the analytical company Naavik estimates. We are talking about revenue from all platforms: both from PC and mobile devices.

The new Unity collection is called Runtime Fee. It got its name in honor of the Unity Runtime library set. The company believes that since libraries are installed on users’ devices along with the game, the developer must pay for it. We talked about Unity Runtime with Kirill Shabordin, the founder of Yerevan Cowboys Games, and Alexey Pechenin, the founder of Infinite Art Solutions.

At the end of June, French President Emmanuel Macron blamed video games for the riots that were taking place in the country at that time. Almost three months later, he said that he did not condemn the video games themselves, but the violence that reigned on the streets of France.

In 2020, Microsoft’s gaming division was considering buying Nintendo. This was stated by the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) in a letter to top managers of the corporation, disclosed as part of the court on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

The new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III may not be able to buy from the largest Russian retailers. The companies admitted that they would not sell the game because of scenes of violence against Russians.

On September 18, Unity shares fell 7.92% to $33.45 apiece. For the company, this is the biggest* daily drop in September.

After Unity introduced a new pricing policy, Massive Monster studio announced plans to remove the Cult of the Lamb game from stores on January 1, 2024. Now she explained that she was just joking.

At the Unity Software general meeting, which took place on Monday, it was announced to employees that the company would abandon the main provisions of the new monetization policy, which was announced last Wednesday.

On September 12-13, a conference for game developers and publishers WN Conference was held in Limassol. Its guests were representatives of companies such as Google, Apple, Larian Studios, Ubisoft, Saber Interactive, Playrix, Owlcat Games and Sensor Tower.

GSD analysts estimated that Starfield was inferior in terms of initial sales in the European market to only four games released in 2023.

Layoffs in gaming companies continue. This time it became known about the cuts in the Beamdog studio, which released reissues of classic RPGs like Planescape: Torment and two parts of Baldur’s Gate.