Earlier this month, WN Media Group hosted a conference in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. It was attended by representatives of Apple, Google, Ubisoft, Unity, TikTok, Tilting Point, Stillfront Group, Riot Games, Huawei, and other companies.

Electronic Arts has announced a new stage of its business restructuring. It will involve mass layoffs and a reorganization of its gaming portfolio with more focus on its own IPs and live services.

Remedy Entertainment has entered into an agreement with publisher 505 Games to acquire the rights to the Control IP. The Finnish studio will now also have full control of the upcoming sequel and spin-offs.

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) might be another studio to cut jobs this year. The information came from several former employees who said they had recently been laid off.

Epic Games has reportedly become the victim of a cyberattack. As a result, the company’s internal information was stolen by a hacker group under the name Mogilevich.

Balatro is one of the many successful indie games we have already seen this year. The poker deck-building roguelike, made by solo dev LocalThunk, exceeded expectations and became profitable almost immediately after launch.

While Helldivers 2 continues to dominate the Steam charts, several new indie games managed to break into the top 15 last week. Not to mention the impressive jumps in sales of some already successful older titles.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has decided to lay off 900 employees. The move will affect people at various PlayStation studios and divisions.

How can a mobile game remain successful for over a decade? ZiMAD CEO Dmitry Bobrov, who has been running the company for more than 10 years, has tried to answer this question in the 10th episode of Games and Names, an industry podcast launched by AppMagic in partnership with WN Media Group.

Stardew Valley has reached an impressive milestone, surpassing 30 million copies sold globally. Here is how the figure compares to other successful indie games.

Mass layoffs continue to plague the industry. Supermassive Games, developer of games like Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, is the latest studio to announce job cuts.

After more than four years in Early Access, Last Epoch has finally launched globally. It was a huge success, although technical issues slightly clouded the ideal picture.

Larian Studios hasn’t officially announced the sales figures for Baldur’s Gate 3. But thanks to one of the studio’s employees, we now know that the game has already reached way over 10 million players.

Ubisoft has yet to disclose official figures for Skull and Bones, its new pirate action title that suffered from exhausting and troubled development. But a new report sheds light on the game’s not-so-impressive player count.

More than 500k players have already purchased Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. It took the new auto shooter just one week to reach this milestone.

Following the announcement of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, FromSoftware has updated sales figures for the original Elden Ring game. It seems that players continue to actively buy the studio’s action RPG.

Market intelligence firm Newzoo has shared its own data on Palworld, the breakout hit from Japanese indie studio Pocketpair. Here is how the game performed in key markets last month.

Nightingale and Balatro are drastically different games released on the same day: one is a Victorian survival title and the other is a poker roguelike. But they both managed to attract tens of thousands of concurrent players at launch.

Phil Spencer continues to discuss his vision of the Xbox future following the recent business update. This time, the Microsoft Gaming head opened up about the main growth areas, mass layoffs, and finding new customers outside traditional console markets.