As of September 30, 2024, 99% of LLC “Lesta,” the Russian legal entity of Lesta Games, is owned by the company’s co-founder, Malik Khatazhaev. For the past two years, this share was owned by the Chinese company Lesta Hong Kong Limited.

It’s been a while since we’ve featured content in the “Profession” section. We’re making up for it. This new article in the series is dedicated to the role of a Monetization Manager (specifically, a senior specialist in this area). Irina Bragina from Glera Games shared insights on the nuances of this specialization.

At the Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, a representative from Game Science Studio revealed the production budget for Black Myth: Wukong. According to him, more than 300 million yuan ($42.4 million) was spent on creating the game.

There are currently no plans to restrict access to the Steam gaming platform in Russia. This information was reported by Roskomnadzor in a statement to TASS.

The CEO of Nexon Games, Park Yong Hyun, in an interview with the 4Gamer portal, mentioned that his team doesn’t heavily rely on market data when it comes to assessing the potential of games.

The witch hunting shooter Witchfire has reached a new milestone. The Astronauts studio proudly announced that the game has garnered over one million wishlists combined on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

On October 8, DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO became available to owners of premium editions. According to the SteamDB service, its peak online players on Steam soon exceeded 91 thousand people.

Cryptic Studios, a subsidiary of the Swedish holding company Embracer Group, plans to lay off more staff. This was reported by Game Developer, citing LinkedIn posts from the studio’s employees.

The indie studio Pounce Light has announced that over half a million people have played the castle-building simulator Tiny Glade. It took the game just over two weeks to reach this milestone, having been released on September 23, 2024.

Author Kelsey Martineau has filed a lawsuit against Bungie, accusing the studio of plagiarism. He claims that the developers borrowed many plot elements from his work for the “Red War” campaign in Destiny 2.

A group of players from the United States has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft. The company is accused of illegally sharing user personal data from the Ubisoft Store and Ubisoft+ subscription with third parties.

An American investment research firm, Hindenburg Research, released an extensive investigation into issues with the gaming platform Roblox. Among other things, it claimed that Roblox’s management regularly inflates user numbers in financial reports by 25-42%.

Last week, the Russian studio Cats Who Play officially reported on their work outcomes to the government, with whose support they developed the real-time strategy game “Frontline.” The creative director, Vitaly Shutov, described this process as hellish in a post on VKontakte.

Three pages from the “Community” section of the Steam platform have appeared in the registry of Roskomnadzor, which compiles websites containing information prohibited for distribution in Russia.

In light of the upcoming release of the MMORPG Gran Saga, we had the chance to speak with the game developer — the South Korean team NPIXEL — about the country’s domestic market and what’s currently happening there.

Roskomnadzor has blocked access to Discord in Russia. In a comment to TASS, the press service of the agency stated that it was blocked due to violations of the country’s legislation.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia sold 17.3 million shares of Nintendo between August 21 and October 1, 2024. Bloomberg reported this information citing the fund’s report to Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

Scopely’s Chief Financial Officer, Tim O’Brien, shared during the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit that his company has ambitious M&A plans for the upcoming year.

The remake of Silent Hill 2 helped increase Bloober Team’s stock value. By midday on October 8, the Polish studio’s shares rose to 25.3 zlotys ($6.45) per unit—this is 12.4% more than on the evening of Friday, October 5.