Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 23 April 2025.
General4 stories
Business5 stories
Devolver Digital reveals which IPs and platform have made the most money as it shares its future strategy
- Third-party release Cult of the Lamb is the publisher’s most successful IP, with total lifetime revenue of more than $90 million.
- This is followed by numerous first-party IP, including Astroneer ($80 million), Stronghold ($50 million across 9 games) and Serious Sam ($45 million across 11 games).
- According to the slides, “gamers are spending more time on known IPs as opposed to new IPs”, and Devolver plans to respond to this by “leaning further into our own popular IPs in a variety of ways”.
Square Enix, Capcom, Taito, and Sega commit to "archiving past development materials"
AppLovin cuts another 97 jobs, including CEO of subsidiary studio Machine Zone
- It has filed seven WARN filings since June 2022; 120 jobs were impacted in November and 126 in October