We continue summarizing the year 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. In the fourth year-end interview, we spoke with Andrey Postnikov, Senior Business Developer at Nutaku.

The past few days have been notable for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to an increase in online presence via Steam. Although not a record, it reached a significant level.

Exactly one month ago—on November 15, 2025—Escape from Tarkov had its full release. In light of this event, we decided to turn to VG Insights’ data to examine the extraction shooter’s performance on Steam.

Developers from the Chinese studio Everstone Studio announced this achievement on social media.

As the New Year approaches, the service SteamDB shared its observations about Steam. It estimated that in the partial year of 2025, a record number of games were released on the Valve platform — 19,200. However, almost half of them barely piqued anyone’s interest.

Roskomnadzor announced that it does not plan to block Call of Duty and Wolfenstein in Russia, MindsEye became the worst new release of 2025 according to Metacritic, and a union was formed at id Software—here’s a rundown of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Continuing our review of the year 2025 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. In the third retrospective interview, we spoke with Dmitry Sigov, the Customer Success Manager at Tenjin.

The analytical company Niko Partners reached this conclusion.

The game was absent from the Google app store since August 2020.

Yesterday, December 11, Coffee Stain Group officially separated from Embracer Group, becoming a public company. Its shares were listed on the Nasdaq First North exchange.

The French studio Sandfall Interactive mentioned this amount in an interview with The New York Times.

She also emerged as the absolute triumph of the ceremony, taking home a total of nine awards—more than any other game this year.

Now, the studio Bulkhead Interactive is owned by a consortium of three companies: Super Media Group, Everplay Group, and Hiro Capital.

On December 10th, the final broadcast of the year for the deconstruction show “What about the Game?” aired on the WN Academy platform. This time, the experts discussed in detail and with quite some emotion the mechanics, design, and other aspects of one of the main hits of the fall — the extraction shooter ARC Raiders.

Don’t Scream Together is a cooperative version of the horror game Don’t Scream, where players must navigate a dark forest while maintaining their composure. If one player screams, the game restarts for everyone.

Continuing our review of the year 2025 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. In our second year-end interview, we spoke with the creative director of the studio perelesoq, Artem Koblova.

The issue of the dismissal of several dozen employees from Rockstar Games was raised at the latest session of the British Parliament.

As Bloomberg noted, the stock price of the Japanese company has been almost continuously declining since the beginning of December.

A corporate battle has erupted over the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. At stake are the futures of numerous IPs, including video games. Today we will explore the financial details of the offers from Netflix and Paramount, and also address the potential fate of WB Games.