Some players have recently started criticizing dialogue animations in Starfield, comparing them to the way character interactions are staged in Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt RED designer Patrick Mills has tried to explain the difference in design approach between the two games and why such criticism is generally ignorant.

Recently launched Counter-Strike 2 became the highest-grossing game on Steam last week, replacing its predecessor CS:GO. However, Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansion, Phantom Liberty, remained the top-selling premium title.

WN Media Group has announced a new WN Connect that will take palce in Poznań, Poland on October 6. The list of companies to attend the event includes The Farm 51, Owlcat Games, Ravenage, Anshar Studios, Ice Code Games, My.Games Venture Capital, and more.

Everspace 2 has reached a new milestone, with its total audience across all platforms exceeding 1.5 million players. Here are the latest data about the game and how it compares to the previous title from Rockfish Games.

EA Sports FC 24 is Electronic Arts’ first football sim released after the company ended its long-term partnership with FIFA. Here is how the game performed at launch.

Team17 is now going through another wave of layoffs, the second this year. The Worms maker has initiated a restructuring process that will result in dozens of people losing their jobs.

Sergiy Galyonkin, an industry veteran and creator of analytics tool Steam Spy, appears to have left Epic Games. For the past several years, he has served as the company’s director of publishing strategy.

Zakazane is a new studio founded in 2022 by games industry veterans aiming to make what they define as “triple i” games. They previously worked on titles like The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Frostpunk.

There is a new deal on the mobile services market landscape. Marketing growth platform Appodeal has announced a partnership with velocity capital firm Pollen VC.

Epic Games is another game company conducting layoffs this year. The Fortnite and Unreal maker has explained the reasons for cutting around 16% of its employees.

League of Legends: Wild Rift, the mobile version of Riot Games’ hit MOBA title, has reached an important milestone. The game has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime player spending.

Sega Sammy announced a restructuring at its gaming divisions in Europe, which is expected to result in losses for the Japanese company. As part of the process, some games currently in development will be canceled.

Jim Ryan, who has been running Sony’s gaming business since 2019, has announced his retirement from the Japanese company. Let’s take a look back at his career journey and key achievements.

The latest WN CEO Summit took place in Istanbul, Turkey on September 20. 100 executives and top managers of game companies from 16 countries came together to discuss industry-related topics.

Blizzard has laid off some staff from the Hearthstone team, describing the process as organizational changes. But let’s also look at the game’s performance in the mobile market this year and see how the company’s exit from China has affected its revenues.

Candy Crush Saga remains at the top of the mobile charts even more than a decade after its launch. King has now revealed that the game has reached a new milestone.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a massive success for Larian Studios, and the latest report from Newzoo serves as further proof of that. Here is some data about the game and its performance.

The hype around patch 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty expansion has boosted the sales of Cyberpunk 2077. This has helped the game top the top-selling charts on Steam, with its concurrent player count also skyrocketting.

Do big companies struggle with making new hits and why can having successful games in their portfolio affect creativity? These are the main topics of the new episode of Games and Names, a games industry podcast launched by AppMagic in partnership with WN Media Group.