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The Epic Games Store now boasts over 295 million users on PC.  In the company’s annual Year in Review blog post for 2024 , the Fortnite giant reported that this was an increase of 25 million accounts year-on-year. Overall, Epic boasts 898 million cross-platform accounts, an increase of 94 million year-on-year.  PC players spent $1.09 billion on the Epic Games Store, a 15 per cent increa…

Japanese games firm Koei Tecmo has appointed Hisashi Koinuma as its new chief executive officer.  He will be taking this position effective April 1st, 2025. Previously he was chief operating officer, as well as president and general manager of its entertainment division.  The company is also splitting the company in two; Koei Tecmo Games and Koei Tecmo Corproate Finance.  “Our grou…

  French publishing giant Ubisoft has reported a 47.5 per cent decline in its revenue for the three months ending December.    In its financials for Q3 , the company brought in €318.1 million ($344.2 million), almost half the €606.4 million ($637 million) that it managed the previous year. Net bookings, meanwhile, more than halved – dropping by 51.8 per cent –…

Sweden’s Thunderful Gothenberg has rebranded as Stormteller Games.  GamesBeat reports that this shift in name represents a new chapter in the developer’s lifecycle. The first title to come out under the Stormteller branding is Lost in Random: The Eternal Die.   “One thing we’ve done that has been quite great over the past year – and it’s basically taken a year to get t…

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Industry veteran Dino Patti has bought back Jumpship from Thunderful.  GI.biz reports that the Playdead alum plans to reboot the studio and take it in “a new direction”. Patti co-founded Jumpship in 2017 with Chris Olsen before releasing its debut title Somerville in 2022.  That same year, the studio was acquired by European games firm Thunderful. Patti has also acquired shares in Viewf…

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Microsoft has appointed Kayleen Walters as the head of its Mojang studios.  Variety reports that she will be taking on this responsibility on top of her current position as VP and head of franchise development for the Big M’s games business, though Federico San Martin will be handling franchise development management.  Walters joined Microsoft as partner and head of franchise developmen…

Developer Crytek is cutting roughly 15 per cent of its staff.  In a post on Twitter , the company blamed these layoffs on “the complex, unfavourable market dynamics”. Cuts have been made to both its development and shared services divisions. Around 60 workers are impacted by the news.  “This has not been an easy decision to make, as we deeply appreciate the hard work of our talented tea…

John Riccitiello ( pictured ) was apparently the “worst CEO” in the games industry.  That’s according to former Activision Blizzard chief exec, Bobby Kotick – himself a controversial business figure for the market – who said on the Grit show that he would have paid to make sure that his rival kept the top job at EA. Kotick appeared on the show with former EA chief creative office…

Engine giant Unity has reportedly set about making another wave of layoffs.  80 Level reports that the company’s CEO, Matthew Bromberg, sent out an email to staff yesterday announcing that there was going to be job cuts. At the moment, it’s unclear how many staff are going to be impacted by this decision, but from a subsequent post from 80 Level , it’s clear that the CTO, Engine Product and…

Action RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 was the highest grossing game on Steam last week.  The title launched on February 4th and rose up one place to No.1 week-on-week after pre-orders clocked in at second place. Counter-Strike 2 has to settle for second place this week, while Civilization 7 debuted at No.3 following its February 10th launch.  Pre-orders for Monster Hunter Wilds were the…

Games platform Roblox is being investigated by the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  That’s according to Bloomberg , made this discovery after filing a Freedom of Information request into the company. The SEC hasn’t said that the investigation is into in particular as doing sound would harm “the ongoing enforcement proceeding”. “We have confirmed with Division of Enfo…

Swedish firm Paradox Interactive has inked a deal to buy Bulgarian studio Haemimont Games.  No figure has been put on the deal, but is divided into upfront cash and performance-based incentives.  Paradox says this acquisition is part of its strategy of expanding its footprint in the management genre. For the time being, Haemimont is going to retain its current leadership and will contin…

2K Games has reportedly let the president of studio 31st Union, Michael Condrey, go.  That’s according to Kotaku , which reports that the development vet had been let go on February 3rd due to a lack of player interest in its upcoming online multiplayer title, Project Ethos. There’s no word as to what is going to happen to the game, but 2K has said that it is “very committed” to both the tit…