ERA, the UK’s digital entertainment and retail association, has published a report on the state of the domestic market for the first six months of 2024. The data shows a significant decline in video game sales.

It’s time for a weekly review of the highest-grossing games on Steam. Last week, four of the top 5 products on the platform were free-to-play titles.

Tencent continues to dominate the mobile games market thanks to its portfolio of multi-billion dollar hits. Here are the top-grossing publishers on iOS and Android for the first half of 2024.

Communicating with an investor is challenging and might be confusing for game developers who have never attempted to secure funding before. This brief guide from Narwhal Accelerator can help teams prepare for an important meeting.

Valve is still a private company, so most information about its operations and finances remains undisclosed. But thanks to new court documents, we can now get a glimpse of some of the internal data.

GameMaker is one of the most accessible game engines. And the team has found that more and more young users are trying out the engine thanks to its free license tier.

Shift Up has finally gone public. The Stellar Blade developer’s IPO was the largest in South Korea for a game company in almost three years.

Once Human is a new free-to-play multiplayer shooter with survival elements from NetEase’s subsidiary Starry Studio. The game has shown impressive numbers at launch, but player reception has been mixed so far.

Loop Hero has already hit 1 million downloads on iOS and Android. French publisher Playdigious, which released the mobile version, said the game performed above expectations.

Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski has found out that many developers try to launch their games during the gap between Steam’s major events. So is this really a good release window or is it better to pay closer attention to other things?

Microsoft has announced another price increase for its Game Pass subscription service. The company will introduce a new tier without day-one game releases.

Steam’s seasonal sales are definitely one of the best events to boost interest in older hit games. And Frost punk developer 11 bit studios has some nice stats to prove it.

Dataspelsbranschen, Sweden’s video game trade association, has published a list of domestic titles important for the country’s cultural heritage.

Almost half of the top 10 highest-grossing games on Steam over the past seven days were free-to-play. Let’s take a closer look at last week’s biggest winners.

Although Circana is a little late with its US games market breakdown for May 2024, it is still full of valuable insights (including some surprising data).

South Korean laws require game companies to disclose loot box probabilities. And a local governmental organization has now found that hundreds of titles are violating the rules.

The journey of Piranha Bytes seems to have come to an end after reportedly failing to secure funding to continue its operations. Meanwhile, the studio’s former creative lead has already founded a new independent studio.

Dungeon & Fighter Mobile remains the chart-topping game in China. The latest analyst estimates reveal another major milestone for Tencent’s new hit.

Epic Games’ digital crusade against Apple continues. The Fortnite maker now claims that it is still facing resistance to launching its mobile app store in the EU.