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Report: Budgets for AAA games in the US and Canada now amount to at least $300 million

Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier shared this information on social media. According to him, these are the figures he has been hearing from American and Canadian developers lately, and in some cases ...
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Unity pricing update explained: concerns about per-install fees, plus required internet connection for Personal plan

Unity has announced an update to its pricing policy, Here is a breakdown of all the changes, including the biggest one — the so-called “Runtime Fee” charged for every install after a game crosses ...
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Report: Playtika wants to sell SuperPlay — the studio turned out to be too successful

The company Playtika is negotiating the sale of the studio behind Disney Solitaire, Dice Dreams, and Domino Dreams, claims Calcalist Tech. The potential buyer is Tencent. According to the publication, ...
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Report: EA owners are in talks to buy Unity for $25 billion

The company Unity is being targeted for acquisition. According to sources from Reuters, a consortium of investors, including the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Silver Lake, has shown ...
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Tencent has invested in the development of the Godot engine

Good news for Godot game developers. W4 Games, a company dedicated to strengthening the ecosystem around the engine, has raised $18 million in investments. This funding was provided by several ...
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Sony Report: PlayStation profits nearly doubled, while sales of Marvel’s Wolverine reached 2.4 million copies

The Sony Corporation reported a successful second quarter of fiscal 2026, which spanned from July 1 to September 30. Its ...
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Microsoft offers “voluntary buyouts” to 60,000 employees, including those in Xbox division

Microsoft announced the launch of the Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) on October 26. As explained by the corporation’s Chief Human ...
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Valve employed only 336 people in 2021, but spent over $444 million on gross salaries

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.
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Valve acknowledges AI clones issue, but has no intend to restrict developers

Valve acknowledges that the rise of generative AI has exacerbated the issue of game cloning on Steam. However, the company ...
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Phantom Blade Zero peaks at over 731k concurrent players at launch, marking15th highest result in Steam history

GAME, showcased one of the biggest launches in Steam history. On October 30, the game reached 731,026 concurrent users (CCU).
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How Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s 1.5 million players compare to launch sales of previous DA games

In an unusual move, Electronic Arts has suddenly disclosed the launch figures for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Let’s put them in context and compare to previous games in the series. Dragon Age: The ...
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Control Resonant helped Remedy triple its quarterly revenue

The third quarter of 2026 was extremely successful for Remedy Entertainment financially. As the company reported in the financial report, this was made possible by the excellent launch of Control ...