Marc Whitten is leaving Unity

He leaves after over three years at the engine giant

• Job News
• engine

NetEase walks back Marvel Rivals influencer contract

Agreement stopped creators from criticising the game

• influencers
• $$$
• marvel rivals

CHARTS: Hades 2 debuts in second place on Steam

The roguelike has launched to critical acclaim

• Steam
• data
• steam charts
• steam top ten
• hades 2

EA is looking to introduce in-game ads

The company already has teams working on this

• advertising
• in-game advertising

Square Enix "aggressively" pursuing multiplatform strategy

The company reckons that PC is a growth market

• Business
• strategy
• multiplatform

Report: Steam banned in Vietnam

Users in the country unable to access the platform via its app or browser

• Steam
• regulation
• vietnam

CI Games cuts around 30 staff in "final" round of layoffs

Hexworks unaffected by these redundancies

• layoffs

Lightforge cuts "majority" of staff, pauses work on debut project

"While today is a sad day for Lightforge, I'm very proud of the work we've done and the team we've built over the past four years"

• Investment
• development
• layoffs

Unity revenue dips 8% as losses grow

Company says that net loss growth was related to its restructuring program

• Financials
• engine

Nekki partners with Story Kitchen for the feature film adaptation of SPINE

• sponsored
• Nekki
• Cascadeur
• SPINE

Tekore Studio emerge from the shadows to win the Very Big Indie Pitch with their game KORE

Winners breakdown

• big indie pitch
• indies
• Very Big Indie Pitch
• Dubai

CHARTS: Manor Lords debuts at No.2 on Steam

The game has shifted over one million copies to date

• Steam
• data
• steam charts
• steam top ten
• manor lords

Fallout show hits 65m viewers

60 per cent of the show's audience was from outside the US

• data
• fallout
• tv show

Tencent now owns 15% of Remedy

The firm first snapped up 3.8 per cent of the control maker in 2021

• Investment
• shareholders
• stake

Manor Lords sold 1m copies on first day on sale

According to publisher Hooded Horse

• data
• sales data
• manor lords