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M&A and Investment


REUTERS: BYTEDANCE TO CLOSE NUVERSE COMPANY THAT PUBLISHED MARVEL SNAP

· an hour ago
The Chinese holding ByteDance will restructure its gaming division. According to
Reuters sources, during it, the company will close its largest gaming "daughter"
of the publisher Nuverse.



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REPORT: BYTEDANCE PLANS TO DITCH MARVEL SNAP PUBLISHER NUVERSE AS PART OF ITS
PLANS TO MOVE AWAY FROM MAINSTREAM GAMING

· 2 hours ago
TikTok maker ByteDance has reportedly decided to restructure its gaming
business. This will likely affect the Chinese tech giant’s main video game arm,
Nuverse.



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THE MAIN THING FOR THE WEEKEND (NOVEMBER 25-26)

· 5 hours ago
Team17 has fallen in price by more than 40% in a day, Red Dead Redemption 2 has
updated the online record on Steam, there are rumors that Minecraft earns more
than $ 100 million a year — we tell you what happened in the gaming industry
over the weekend.



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MEDIEVIL CO-CREATOR SELLS HIS BAFTA AWARD STATUETTE TO "KEEP A ROOF OVER HIS
HEAD"

· 3 days ago
Jason Wilson (aka Jay Gunn) is a developer who was responsible for game design
and many other aspects of the original games of the MediEvil series. The other
day he put up for sale a statuette of the BAFTA Award, which he received in 2000
for his work on MediEvil 2.



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MEDIEVIL CO-CREATOR JASON WILSON SELLING HIS BAFTA AWARD TO KEEP ROOF OVER HIS
HEAD

· 3 days ago
Jason Wilson, co-creator of 1998’s hack and slash game MediEvil, has decided to
sell his Game of the Year BAFTA award. Despite his vast experience, he seems to
be struggling to find a new job in the industry.



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Stores and publishing


DIABLO IV QUADRUPLES ITS LAUNCH NUMBERS ON STEAM BY PEAKING AT OVER 23K
CONCURRENT PLAYERS (WITH NUANCES)

· 3 days ago
Diablo IV has seen a huge surge in player count on Steam this week. Let’s take a
look at how Blizzard’s successful ARPG has been performing on the store since
its October launch and compare it to some other releases.



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Marketing


A POP-UP ADVERTISEMENT WITH ASSASSIN'S CREED MIRAGE APPEARED IN ASSASSIN'S CREED
ODYSSEY. UPDATE: UBISOFT HAS STATED THAT THIS IS A TECHNICAL ERROR

· 3 days ago
Ubisoft started promoting Assassin's Creed Mirage with pop—up ads in another
part of the series - Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The network noticed that banners
now appear during the game with an offer to buy Assassin's Creed Mirage at a
discount in honor of Black Friday.



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UBISOFT MIGHT BE TESTING IN-GAME ADS INTEGRATED INTO ASSASSIN'S CREED GAMEPLAY,
DRAWING CRITICISM FROM PLAYERS

· 3 days ago
Players have found out that Ubisoft has apparently started experimenting with
in-game ads. These pop-up banners appear during gameplay, promoting discounts on
the latest Assassin’s Creed title.



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GDEV REPORT: THERE ARE MORE PAYING USERS, THE HERO WARS: ALLIANCE BOX OFFICE HAS
REACHED $1.2 BILLION

· 3 days ago
GDEV (formerly Nexters) has summed up the financial results of the third quarter
and the first nine months of 2023. We chose the main thing from the report.



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HOW EMBRACER GROUP DECIDES WHICH OF 200+ GAMES IN ITS PIPELINE GET GREEN LIGHT
DURING ITS COST-CUTTING RESTRUCTURING

· 4 days ago
Mass layoffs aside, one of the main elements of Embracer Group’s ongoing
restructuring program is a review of all games in its pipeline. Chief strategy
officer Phil Rogers has detailed the process and the progress the Swedish
holding company has made so far.



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M&A and Investment


THE CREATORS OF THE COFFEE TALK BARISTA SIMULATOR BOUGHT THE INDONESIAN STUDIO
MOJIKEN STUDIO

· 4 days ago
Indie publisher and developer Toge Productions, known primarily for the visual
novel about the barista Coffee Talk, decided to expand. The company announced
that it has joined the Mojiken Studio.



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EA SPORTS FC 24 WAS 2ND HIGHEST-GROSSING GAME IN US AND UK LAST MONTH, RANKING
5TH IN MAU ON CONSOLE

· 4 days ago
EA Sports FC 24 is the first game in the sports series that doesn’t use the FIFA
brand. Here is how its launch numbers compare to the previous title.



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IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS, WARCRAFT RUMBLE EARNED MORE THAN $13 MILLION. SIX
TIMES LESS THAN CLASH ROYALE

· 4 days ago
The Warcraft Rumble mobile action strategy has brought Blizzard Entertainment
$13.7 million in three weeks since its release, according to data from the
AppMagic analytical platform. Although this is a good result for the game in its
segment, it is far from the starting indicators of the hit Clash Royale.



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IN OCTOBER, EA SPORTS FC 24 TOOK THE SECOND PLACE AMONG THE HIGHEST-GROSSING
GAMES IN THE USA AND THE UK

· 4 days ago
On September 29, 2023, Electronic Arts released EA Sports FC 24, the first
football simulator released after the company ended its partnership with FIFA.
Newzoo analysts studied the success of the project in October and compared its
starting indicators with those of FIFA 23.



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Programming


9 STAGES OF GAME PRODUCTION ACCORDING TO TIM CAIN: FROM TEST ROOMS AND
"BEAUTIFUL CORNER" TO BETA AND RELEASE

· 5 days ago
Game production consists of many stages, which may differ depending on the
specific company or team. Here is how the process works according to Tim Cain,
acclaimed developer and one of the creators of Fallout.



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STUDY: 83% OF MOBILE GAMES ARE CLOSED WITHIN THREE YEARS AFTER RELEASE

· 5 days ago
SuperScale has published the report Good Games Don’t Die, which was commissioned
by Atomik Research. As part of the survey, analysts spoke with 504 mobile game
developers from the UK and the USA.



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CHINESE GAMES MARKET REVENUE TO TOP $47 BILLION IN 2023, MARKING RECOVERY FROM
FIRST-EVER DECLINE LAST YEAR

· 5 days ago
Niko Partners has updated its China Games Market 2023 Half-Year report, sharing
new projections for the full year. The country is expected to see a rise in
video game revenue after its first-ever decline in 2022.



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PERELESOQ: TORN AWAY ADVENTURE FAILED, THE STUDIO IS IN LIMBO

· 5 days ago
Torn Away is an adventure game telling about the journey of a ten—year-old girl
from Germany home during World War II. Although the game received 96% positive
reviews on Steam and 85 out of 100 on Metacritic, its launch turned into a
failure.



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STABILITY AI INTRODUCED STABLE VIDEO DIFFUSION, A MODEL FOR GENERATING SHORT
VIDEOS

· 5 days ago
The authors of the Stable Diffusion neural network have announced the release of
Stable Video Diffusion. This is a model that generates videos up to four seconds
long based on an image or text description.


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Stores and publishingLegal


THE COURT REJECTED SONY'S REQUEST TO CANCEL A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR LAWSUIT DUE TO
EXTRA CHARGES IN THE PLAYSTATION STORE

· 5 days ago
Sony failed to annul a class action lawsuit filed by British gamers in August
2022. The UK Competition Court of Appeal ruled that the company must justify its
position at the hearing.


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THE GAMEMAKER ENGINE HAS BECOME FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ON ALL PLATFORMS
EXCEPT CONSOLES

· 5 days ago
The GameMaker team announced that developers who are not going to make money on
their games can now not pay for the engine. The only limitation is that the free
version of GameMaker cannot be used for console projects.


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ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY HITS 435K PLAYERS IN TWO WEEKS, RECORD LAUNCH FOR PUBLISHER
NACON

· 5 days ago
RoboCop: Rogue City has been a massive success for both developer Teyon and
publisher Nacon. Here are the game’s key achievements since launch.



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Engines and toolsProgramming


GAMEMAKER ROLLS OUT ONE-TIME FEE COMMERCIAL LICENSE, WHILE OTHER ENGINES MAKE
"AWKWARD MOVES" WITH THEIR PRICING

· 6 days ago
GameMaker has a special Thanksgiving surprise for its community by announcing
major changes to its pricing model. And the team decided to do the opposite of
what some other engine makers do.



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Stores and publishingIndie


STEAM DECK TOPS STEAM WEEKLY CHARTS, WHILE INDIE HIT LETHAL COMPANY OUTSHINES
PUBG AND BALDUR'S GATE 3

· 6 days ago
Shortly after Valve announced the OLED version of Steam Deck, its handheld PC
has become the top-selling product on the store. Here are all the notable shifts
that have occurred on the charts over the past week.



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ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY WAS PLAYED BY 435 THOUSAND PEOPLE IN TWO WEEKS. THIS IS A
RECORD FOR NACON

· 6 days ago
The company Nacon announced that the release of RoboCop: Rogue City exceeded
expectations and became the largest among the games published by it.


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Stores and publishingIndieFinance and sales


INDIE HORROR LETHAL COMPANY BEAT BALDUR'S GATE 3 IN WEEKLY SALES ON STEAM

· 6 days ago
The cooperative horror Lethal Company, created by a lone developer Zeekerss, has
become a hit on Steam. It took the third place in the chart of the
highest-grossing premium products on the site for the last week.


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FORTNITE REVENUE MAY EXCEED $20 BILLION

· 6 days ago
This amount is indicated in the profile of former Fortnite creative director
Donald Mustard on the website of AGBO — the production company of directors
Anthony and Joe Russo (Anthony, Joe Russo). Mastart left Epic Games in September
2023 and is now listed as an AGBO partner.


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FORTNITE GENERATED OVER $20 BILLION IN LIFETIME REVENUE, ACCORDING TO ITS
CO-CREATOR DONALD MUSTARD

· 6 days ago
Even after the start of its troubles with mobile app stores and legal battles
with Apple and Google, Fortnite remains one of the highest-grossing games
globally. Here is how much money Epic Games’ biggest hit has generated to date.



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Legal


EPIC GAMES WAS READY TO SUE SONY IN CASE OF REFUSAL TO SUPPORT CROSSPLAY IN
FORTNITE

· 6 days ago
This was told by the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, during a hearing in the
case of Epic Games and Google due to the removal of Fortnite from Google Play.


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WHO IS THE MANAGER — A CONVERSATION WITH EVGENY SUDAK

· 6 days ago
Is there a difference between a manager and a manager, which people should not
be appointed to the position of manager, what is the difference between Western
managers and Russian—speaking ones - on these and other topics, the editors of
App2Top talked with Evgeny Sudak, author of the course "Ethical Management".



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THE SIMULATOR OF LIFE IN THE WORLD WITH GHOSTS SPIRITTEA EARNED $ 1 MILLION IN A
WEEK

· 6 days ago
The release of Spirittea has become one of the largest in the history of indie
publishing house No More Robots. According to the head of the company Mike Rose,
the game paid off on the very first day, and its profit for the debut week was
three times higher than the development costs.


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Engines and toolsProgramming


HALO ENGINE "STILL HAD 1992'S MARATHON CODE IN IT": DEVS DISCUSS MESSY CODEBASE
OF AAA GAMES

· 7 days ago
No game engine is perfect. And sometimes developers may have a hard time working
with specific frameworks due to a large amount of legacy code or lack of good
documentation.



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M&A and InvestmentFinance and sales


TALOS PRINCIPLE 2 HITS 100K COPIES SOLD, REACHES HIGHEST CCU OF ANY GAME
PUBLISHED BY DEVOLVER IN 2023

· 7 days ago
The Talos Principle 2, the long-awaited sequel to Croteam’s acclaimed
first-person puzzle game, has reached its first sales milestone just over two
weeks after launch.



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FINNISH STUDIO PAPUKAYA IS PREPARING TO CLOSE

· 7 days ago
It became known about the dissolution of the Papukaya mobile game development
studio. It was opened in 2020 by Supercell, Rovio and Seriously Digital veterans
who decided to make games for people "who don't consider themselves gamers."


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M&A and InvestmentVR and AR


DEVELOPERS OF GHOSTBUSTERS VR AND PHANTOM: COVERT OPS BOUGHT FOR $110 MILLION

· 7 days ago
nDreams, a British developer and publisher of VR games, has joined Aonic, a
gaming conglomerate that owns stakes in OtherSide Entertainment, BKOM Studios
and Milky Tea.


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ROBLOX HITS $7 BILLION IN PLAYER SPENDING ON MOBILE, WITH DOWNLOADS APPROACHING
1 BILLION

· 7 days ago
The mobile version of Roblox remains one of the highest-grossing apps globally.
Here are the key metrics for the game platform, including downloads and the top
countries by revenue.



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ASCENDANT STUDIOS: THE FAILURE OF IMMORTALS OF AVEUM WAS INFLUENCED BY THE
ABUNDANCE OF HIGH-PROFILE RELEASES IN 2023

· 7 days ago
The magical shooter Immortals of Aveum became a commercial failure for Ascendant
Studios: because of it, the studio had to cut 45% of the staff. In an interview
with Windows Central, Ascendant Studios CEO Bret Robbins attributed the poor
sales of the game to the poorly chosen time for release.


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COOKING SIMULATOR FAILED IN CHINA

· 7 days ago
On July 25, 2023, the Polish Big Cheese Studio released Cooking Simulator in
China. The game did not interest Chinese gamers. In a report for investors, the
studio said that by November 13, it had managed to sell only 35 copies of the
game in the country and earn $349 on them.


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APPMAGIC: IN THE MOBILE VERSION OF ROBLOX, USERS SPENT MORE THAN $7 BILLION

· 7 days ago
The Roblox platform has reached a new milestone. According to the estimates of
the analytical service AppMagic, in November, total user spending in the mobile
version of Roblox exceeded $ 7 billion. Important: this is the amount before the
company pays the fees and taxes.


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THE MAIN THING FOR THE WEEKEND (NOVEMBER 18-19)

· 7 days ago
Online Half-Life on Steam has grown 50 times, Germany has allocated €100 million
for subsidies to German game developers, more than 100 thousand people have
played in The Talos Principle 2 — we tell you what happened in the gaming
industry over the weekend.


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ARK: SURVIVAL ASCENDED TOPS 600K COPIES SOLD ON STEAM, AS PUBLISHER REMAINS
CONFIDENT IN ITS FURTHER SUCCESS

· 10 days ago
Ark: Survival Ascended, a remaster of Ark: Survival Evolved, has reached a new
milestone shortly after its Early Access launch on Steam. The developers are now
working on console versions of the game



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Marketing


A RECORDING OF PERFORMANCES WITH MAMA GEORGIA HAS BEEN PUBLISHED — TRENDS AND
CASES ON MOBILE MARKETING

· 10 days ago
On October 17, the AppsFlyer MAMA Georgia conference dedicated to mobile
analytics and marketing was held in Tbilisi. The other day, the organizers of
the event posted recordings of all reports in open access.



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Stores and publishingFinance and sales


ARK: SURVIVAL ASCENDED SALES ON STEAM EXCEEDED 600 THOUSAND COPIES

· 10 days ago
Snail, the publisher of ARK: Survival Ascended, announced that the game has
passed the milestone of 600 thousand copies sold two weeks after its release in
early access.


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UNITY 6 TO FEATURE AI GAME DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, END-TO-END MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT,
AND MORE

· 10 days ago
Unity has announced the new major version of its engine that will feature
various improvements such as performance optimization and accelerated
multiplayer game creation. However, the biggest highlight is the new AI tools
for developers.



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IN RUSSIA, BOOKMAKERS MAY BE REQUIRED TO PAY DEDUCTIONS FROM BETS IN FAVOR OF
GAME DEVELOPERS

· 10 days ago
This proposal was announced at a meeting of the working group "Development of
high-tech sports in the Russian Federation" under the Committee on Physical
Culture and Sports of the State Duma, Vedomosti reports.


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INVESTGAME: THE NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS IN THE VIDEO GAME MARKET HAS FALLEN TO A
MINIMUM SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC

· 10 days ago
The analytical company InvestGame presented a report on the situation on the
gaming investment market for the first three quarters of 2023. Both in terms of
the volume of transactions and their number, it turned out to be one of the most
unsuccessful in the last four years.



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M&A and Investment


ANNAPURNA INTERACTIVE HAS ACQUIRED SOUTH AFRICAN 24 BIT GAMES — THIS IS ITS
FIRST PURCHASE

· 10 days ago
The indie publisher Annapurna Interactive has a subsidiary studio. She became 24
Bit Games from South Africa, which helps companies with the development and
porting of games.


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RVI COMMENTED ON THE COMPLAINT TO THE IC AND THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE ON
THE MAP WITH THE MOSCOW METRO IN COUNTER-STRIKE 2

· 10 days ago
The other day, the "Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry"
(RVI) asked law enforcement officers to check the card in Counter-Strike 2,
developed for the "Big Esports League" tournament on Counter-Strike 2. It
depicts a fictional metro station in Moscow, which can be blown up by
terrorists. Now the organization has come forward with an explanation of its
position.


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Finance and sales


MONOPOLY GO! BECOMES FASTEST CASUAL GAME TO CROSS $1 BILLION IN REVENUE ON
MOBILE

· 10 days ago
Monopoly GO! has achieved an impressive milestone just seven months after its
global launch. This is a big success for Scopely and its new owner, Saudi
Arabia’s Savvy Games Group.



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IN THE NEW VERSION OF THE UNITY ENGINE, AI TOOLS FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT WILL
APPEAR

· 10 days ago
During the Unite 2023 conference, Unity announced Unity 6, the next version of
its engine. With it, developers, among other things, will get early access to
tools based on Unity Muse and Unity Sentis artificial intelligence.


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WN CONFERENCE COMING TO BELGRADE ON DECEMBER 7-8

WN Media Group has shared the first details about WN Belgrade’23, the upcoming
conference for games industry professionals. The event is expected to bring
together more than 400 companies and  feature talks from renowned devs like
Raphaël Colantonio.

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