News March 22 TikTok owner ByteDance buys Mobile Legends creators at $4 billion valuation ByteDance is now expanding its game development division. The Chinese tech giant has just acquired mobile studio Moonton, developers of popular MOBA Mobile Legends, for an undisclosed sum.
News March 22 Playrix acquires Ukrainian studio Boolat Games for undisclosed sum Mobile developer and publisher Playrix has just bought a new studio. Boolat Games joined the company to work on the announced F2P title.
News March 22 Cyberpunk 2077 digital sales drop to 1% of its launch figures, according to analytics Digital sales of Cyberpunk 2077 have significantly decreased since its record-breaking performance at launch. According to analytics’ latest projections, CD Projekt could sell “as few as 500,000” digital copies in the quarter ending March 31.
News March 19 Square Enix reveals Project Athia official name, casts ‘Charlie’s Angels’ reboot star Project Athia is now officially named Forspoken. Square Enix has shared new details about the upcoming project and showed its gameplay footage.
News March 19 Quantic Dream to publish “ambitious new title” from third-party dev Quantic Dream announced they are teaming with Paris-based developer Parallel Studio to work on an “ambitious new title” featuring “narrative, atmospheric, and poetic cinematography”.
News March 19 Australia rejects Disco Elysium: The Final Cut classification due to offending ‘standards of morality’ The extended edition of Disco Elysium is set to come out this month. However, the Australian government rejected the game’s classification because it depicts crime, violence, and different forms of addiction.
Marketing March 19 Chris Zukowski rolls out free class How To Make A Steam Page Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowsk has launched a free class How To Make A Steam Page.
Marketing March 19 Among Us community director Victoria Tran on importance of failures: “Success is built on trash” Victoria Tran, community director at InnerSloth, thinks that the best lessons come from failure. Here’s how she explains the importance of mistakes and what companies and employees can learn from them.
News March 18 Embracer Group to raise almost $900 million and spend them on buying even more studios Swedish holding Embracer Group is ready to buy more studios. Almost $900 million the company is about to raise will definitely help in reaching this goal.
News March 18 Game developers discuss how pandemic and remote work affected their efficiency Journalist Jason Schreier asked game developers to share their experience of how remote work has affected them since the beginning of the pandemic. While some people noticed that they become more efficient, the others opened up about being less productive.