Today, Ubisoft, once the largest gaming company in Europe by market capitalization, finds itself at a crossroads. To better understand the causes of the crisis, we provide a detailed chronology of events from recent years. In short, a single deal with Tencent is unlikely to resolve the accumulated issues.

The company Movie Games, which published the drug dealer simulator dilogy Drug Dealer Simulator, suspects the creators of the indie hit Schedule I of infringing on its copyrights. The company has decided to investigate the game for plagiarism.

Ubisoft shares have declined again. On the afternoon of April 4, their value dropped to 8.86 euros per share, marking the worst result in nearly 12 years.

By the end of March 2025, the meme slasher-action game “Rusy vs Lizards” was purchased over 725,000 times. This number was shared by the developers from the Bratans studio in an interview with streamer WELOVEGAMES.

Recently, media outlets reported that AppLovin is considering purchasing TikTok’s assets in the United States. The company has now officially confirmed this.

The South Korean company KRAFTON announced that sales of the life simulation game inZOI have surpassed the million mark. It took just a week to reach this milestone; the game was released in early access on Steam on March 28.

Next Thursday, on April 10th, an event dedicated to video game operations will be held in the capital of Serbia. In this article, we will briefly cover the talks that will be presented at the WN LiveOps Summit.

The analytics company Newzoo examined the release metrics for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. They collected data on the game’s revenue and audience for its debut month (February 2025). Below are some figures from the report.

One of the contenders for purchasing TikTok’s American business is AppLovin, according to sources from The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. According to their information, AppLovin recently entered into talks regarding the deal.

April 3 began with a drop in Nintendo’s stock value. As noted by Bloomberg, their stock price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by 5.9% in the morning.

The founder of the analytics service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, shared which games released last month earned the most on Steam.

Nintendo held a Nintendo Direct presentation dedicated to its next console. Below are the key details.

A new company has emerged in the gaming market. A group of industry veterans has announced the launch of the publishing house The CoLab.

A significant portion of the daily active user base (DAU) on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox is concentrated around a relatively small number of games. Analyst Simon Carless examined how users are distributed.

Analyst Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo calculated how many games released in 2024 managed to sell over 100,000 copies across various platforms by March 2025. He also determined how many of these games were new IPs.

Which games released in the first three months of 2025 have turned out to be the most successful? We have prepared a comprehensive report, relying on sales charts from different countries and platforms, analytics companies like Newzoo, as well as official data from developers and publishers.

The ZeniMax testers’ union might initiate a strike against Microsoft. The group held a vote on this matter, and 94% of the members of ZeniMax Workers United approved the proposal to organize a protest.

As a result of the week from March 25 to April 1, 2025, the top of the Steam best-selling products chart underwent significant changes. Notably, an indie game called Schedule I climbed to the number one spot, becoming a hit.

In 2023, Unity found itself at the center of a monetization scandal involving its engine: it introduced a Runtime Fee for game installations, which developers strongly disliked. In an interview with The Verge, the company’s CEO, Matthew Bromberg, stated that Unity’s actions at the time triggered a genuine war between the company and its clients.