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How to Create a Game without It Being Painfully Difficult — Lecture by Bibamus — KII Minsk 2026

We continue to publish reports from the “Gaming Industry” conference, which took place this spring in Minsk. Today, we have a report from the indie studio Bibamus. It was presented by Andrey Popovich, the game designer of the studio.

Panamanian authorities have tightened gambling regulations

In Panama, Law No. 527 has been enacted, introducing a new regulatory system for gambling and expanding the powers of the Gambling Control Board.

Pioner’s developers are being demanded to be declared bankrupt

GFA Games is facing new issues.

The studio behind PUBG has been hit by a wave of layoffs

The gaming industry is experiencing ongoing mass layoffs. This time, they’ve reached PlayerUnknown Productions, the studio opened five years ago by Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG.

All Will Fall has already recouped its development and marketing costs

Exactly two months ago, on April 3, 2026, publisher tinyBuild and studio All Parts Connected released All Will Fall—a city-building simulator set in the middle of the ocean. As it turned out, the game has already recouped all its costs in this time.

How to Increase Revenue by 50% Using the “Expedition” Mechanic — Lecture by Fernflower — KII Minsk 2026

We continue to publish reports from the “Gaming Industry” conference, which took place this spring in Minsk. Today, we have a report from Fernflower. It was presented by Vitaly Moroz, the founder of the studio and one of the authors of Family Island.

Premium Industry June 3

The triumph of well-known IPs and the success of indie games: The highest-grossing releases of May on PC and consoles in numbers and charts

May 2026 will be remembered as a month of successful titles from major franchises and licenses. Among them were several box office hits. More about the sales, revenue, and other metrics of the main releases of the past month in our traditional section.

Conferences June 3

The WN Growth Summit took place in Limassol. Here are the highlights

Last week on May 28, one of Cyprus’s largest cities hosted the WN Growth Summit Limassol’26. It focused on the growth challenges of the gaming business. Below are the key outcomes of the event.

Avanti Studios raised $5.8 million

Avanti Studios, a developer specializing in multiplayer online casinos with live dealers, has closed its seed funding round. The company secured nearly $6 million in this round.

The founder of Zynga advised developers to set aside their egos and not be afraid to copy others’ ideas

Borrowing ideas from other games is a sensitive topic in game development. However, Zynga founder Mark Pincus sees nothing wrong with proper copying.

Sales of Mina the Hollower have exceeded 300,000 copies

The game managed to reach this milestone in three days.

In 2025, the revenue of mobile game developers and publishers from Europe exceeded 7.5 billion euros, according to a study

The consulting company Nordicity, commissioned by King — the creators of the hit puzzle game Candy Crush — conducted a study. It examined the situation in the European mobile gaming industry as of the end of 2025. We’ve gathered the key figures from the report.

Vertical videos and friends — at Polden Publishing, they listed the main sources of wishlists for indie games on Steam

Kirill Oreshkin, head of Polden Publishing, analyzed the sources from which indie games on Steam receive wishlists. He shared his observations on LinkedIn.

Sony’s game sales had been declining for four consecutive years, but Ghost of Yōtei turned everything around

Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File noted the sales data for games from Sony’s first-party studios as mentioned in the company’s financial reports. As it turns out, the situation is not very positive.

The European Commission estimated the revenue from the online gambling tax at 13.3 billion euros over seven years

The potential tax on online gambling could generate over 13 billion euros for the European Union budget in its initial years, according to preliminary estimates by the European Commission.

What’s wrong with mobile games?

We continue our weekly series of YouTube interviews. This time, we talked and philosophized a bit about the state of the mobile market with producer Anastasia Kolchina, who previously worked at CM Mobile, Sperasoft, and Pixonic.

In the United Kingdom, children may be banned from communicating with strangers in Roblox, Minecraft, and other online games

The UK authorities continue their efforts to protect children from online harm. They are currently considering implementing a ban on the use of social networks for those under 16 and do not rule out extending the restriction to chats in online games.

Gabe Newell on the accusations of Steam’s monopoly: “Customers have enormous choice where they purchase their products”

In 2023, Valve’s head Gabe Newell provided testimony in a legal case against Wolfire Games, which accused the company of monopolizing the PC store market. A transcript of his speech was recently obtained by Bloomberg.

Atari just got bigger: it has acquired the creators of Crossy Road

Atari continues its spree of M&A deals. This time, it announced the acquisition of the studio Hipster Whale.

Founder of Dumbbell Games: “Friend Slop is One of the Worst Things to Happen to Steam”

In the past couple of years, there’s been a noticeable trend on Steam towards what is called “friendslop”—visually unremarkable cooperative games for friends. While some developers are following this trend, Tolga Coşkun, the founder of the Turkish indie studio Dumbbell Games, considers the popularity of such titles a serious problem.

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