Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Hekate's Ad Infinitum led this year's German Computer Game Awards with three honors. The survival horror title took home the awards for Newcomer Award – Best Debut, Best Audio Design, and Best Story. Read more ..read more

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox According to a new report from Game Developer Collective, 70% of game developers are concerned about the present business model of live-service games. As reported by Game Developer, the Omdia survey categorizes live service titles as online games with constant updates and in-app purchases. Read more ..read more

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CI Games has generated over $60 million in consolidated net revenue for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The figure represents a 400% year-over-year growth, the highest in the company's history. Read more ..read more

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Back in January, UK-based recruiter One Player Mission (known for decades as OPM) closed its doors after 26 years. While this may seem to be one of many closures the industry has suffered in the past year, OPM's service as a jobs agency gave it different insight into the downsizing currently ongoing in the video games business, with founder Kim Parker-Adcock observing that recruitment can be a good indicator as to what will happen to the wider industry. Read more ..read more

As you may know, the network this site belongs to is for sale. To help us with our impending separation from the ReedPop business we are detaching some systems and services from the ReedPop brand. One of those systems is our reader accounts system which powers profiles, comments, subscriptions, and newsletters on this very website. Read more ..read more

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Xalavier Nelson Jr., CEO of Strange Scaffold, is working through what sustainability means in the games industry during a time of economic uncertainty. "I don't think sustainability is a utopian idea," he tells GamesIndustry.biz in a discussion at the DICE Summit. "It's just a necessity. Everything you do cannot guarantee survival, but you should at least create the conditions for it to occur. Read more ..read more

Playdate maker Panic has revealed that over 150,000 games have been sold since the launch of its storefront, Catalog, in March 2023. That represented $544,290 in revenue for the developers, after taxes, processing fees, and Panic's 25% revenue share, the company said. Panic previously announced it had shipped 70,000 units; of these, 38,000 users have made a purchase on the storefront, while the other 32,000 have focused on the 24 titles included in the handheld's Season One. Read more ..read more

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Sales of Fallout games have shot up across Europe, with Fallout 4 reclaiming the No.1 spot. The 2015 game’s sales rose over 7,500% week-on-week across Europe. This is GSD data that tracks digital game sales across all European markets, and physical sales across all major European countries (including UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). This is due to some heavy discounting on games in the Fallout franchise across all platforms. It’s all designed to tie-in with the Fallout TV show, which has proven to be a smash hit on Amazon Prime. Read more ..read more

Last week, Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 won five BAFTAs, including Best Game and Player's Choice. That's on top of GOTY accolades at the Golden Joystick Awards, The Game Awards, the DICE Awards, and the Game Developers Choice Awards. As GamesRadar+ pointed out, that makes it the first game to accomplish this grand slam since The Game Awards' inception in 2014. That's not even taking into account other wins like at the New York Game Awards, the Steam Awards, and of course being among GamesIndustry.biz's very own Games of the Year 2023 (and many other publications'). By now, there isn't a lot about ..read more