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Industry News March 22, 2024

Tencent to focus more on in-house titles, deprioritizing third-party IPs in wake of gaming revenue slowdown

Tencent recently released its FY23 financial report, posting weaker-than-expected revenue growth. What’s really important is the Chinese tech giant’s reported plans to make fewer games based on licensed franchises in favor of in-house production.
Industry News March 22, 2024

Dragon’s Dogma 2 peaks at 184k CCU on Steam, but outrageous microtransactions lead to mostly negative reviews

Dragon’s Dogma 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, has just launched on Steam. However, its impressive player numbers are marred by performance issues and Capcom’s decision to add a bunch of greedy in-app purchases.
Industry News March 22, 2024

Horizon Forbidden West becomes Sony’s 7th biggest launch on Steam, peaking at just 25k concurrent players

Horizon Forbidden West has just been released on Steam. So it is time to take a closer look at the launch numbers for another PlayStation game port for PC.
Industry News March 21, 2024

Swen Vincke on layoffs and publishers who only care about quarterly profits: “Respect the people making the games”

Swen Vincke has criticized executives who lay off devs and act from a position of greed, caring only about their revenues and profits. Speaking at the Game Developers Choice Awards, the Larian Studios head noted that this vicious cycle needs to be broken.
Industry News March 21, 2024

Capcom becomes Metacritic’s top publisher of 2023, while previous winner Sony drops out of top 10

Metacrtic has released its 14th annual game publisher rankings, listing the best and worst of them based on their 2023 releases. This year’s edition is full of interesting shifts, with many indie publishers climbing up and last year’s winner Sony dropping out of the top 10.
Market Analysis March 21, 2024

Circana: Helldivers 2 debuts as best-selling premium game of 2024 in US, with 60% of sales coming from PC

Circana has released its monthly report on the best-selling video games, hardware, and accessories in the US. Helldivers 2 had a robust launch, placing it above all other premium titles released in 2024 so far.
Marketing March 21, 2024

UK accused EA, Miniclip, and Jagex of running misleading ads and failing to discloe information about loot boxes

The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld three complaints for three gaming ads that violated the country’s advertising rules. The regulator ruled that Electronic Arts, Miniclip, and Jagex misled users by failing to disclose information about loot boxes in their products.
Game Development March 21, 2024

Nekki updates its 3D animation tool Cascadeur with unbaking and physics improvements, revamps its pricing model

Nekki has launched the new version of its animation tool Cascadeur, introducing major updates and improvements. In addition, the company revamped the software’s pricing policy.
Game Development March 20, 2024

Key details about Unreal Engine 5.4, plus ‘Epic’ plans for UEFN and user-generated content in Fortnite

Epic Games just held its annual State of Unreal keynote, showcasing the future of Unreal Enigne and sharing other news related to Fortnite and its business in general. Here are all the major updates announced at the event.
Industry News March 20, 2024

Remedy reports 22% revenue drop in 2023, says budget of Max Payne 1&2 Remake on par with Alan Wake 2

Remedy Entertainment has released its report for the full 2023. The company recorded significant declines in both revenue and profitability, but remains confident in its future games currently in development.
Game Development March 20, 2024

Ubisoft unveils NEO NPC, GenAI project allowing players to have “authentic” conversations with in-game characters

Ubisoft has unveiled its new GenAI project called NEO NPC at GDC 2024. It is designed to allow players to have real-time conversations with in-game characters with no pre-written lines.
Industry News March 20, 2024

Stardew Valley peaks at nearly 150k concurrent players, becoming most played farming sim on Steam

Within just hours after the release of (massive) patch 1.6, Stardew Valley has set a new record for peak concurrent players on Steam. The game is doing better than ever, even eight years after its launch.
Industry News March 19, 2024

Tarn Adams lashes out at “greedy” execs behind mass layoffs: “There is this stench of rot at the top of things”

Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams has commented on mass layoffs that are plaguing the games industry. And it is obvious that he can’t sympathize with the executives responsible for these decisions.
Industry News March 19, 2024

Helldivers 2 loses its status as highest-grossing game on Steam charts for first time in six weeks

The ongoing Spring Sale has helped many older games return to the top positions on the Steam charts. Here are the best-selling titles on the platform by gross revenue over the past seven days.
Industry News March 19, 2024

Valve rolls out new Steam Families feature, requiring all members to be in same region

Valve has updated its game sharing features by launching Steam Families. It will replace the Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View tools, introducing major improvements along with several limitations.
Industry News March 18, 2024

Owlcat founder breaks down RPG budgets and Larian’s impact on genre: “We can’t invest $200 million to make BG3”

RPGs have always been one of the most difficult and risky genres in terms of production. Here is what Owlcat Games founder and CEO Oleg Shpilchevskiy has to say about the challenges posed by rising costs, as well as the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and its impact on the industry.
Industry News March 18, 2024

Balatro sells over 1 million copies: “Even in uncertain times, innovative games can thrive”

Balatro has cemented its status as the fastest-selling game in the history of publisher PlayStack. The hit deck-building roguelike has now surpassed 1 million copies sold globally.
Industry News March 18, 2024

LinkedIn expanding into gaming, with plans to add simple puzzle titles to its platform

LinkedIn might be another social media platform to expand into gaming. The Microsoft-owned professional network plans to introduce playable apps to increase user engagement.
Industry News March 18, 2024

Steam breaks its CCU record for 6th time this month, peaking at over 36.3 million concurrent users

2024 is expected to be another strong year for Steam. Valve’s game platform has been breaking records for the number of concurrent players almost on a daily basis this month.
Featured March 15, 2024

Supercell’s five-year streak of no new games continues with shutdown of Clash Mini and its merger with Clash Royale

Supercell is constantly working on new games, but most of them get killed at various stages of development. Clash Mini has now joined the unfortunate list after more than two years of soft launch.
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