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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

The game managed to reach this milestone in three days.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

The gaming studio 155.io has signed a content partnership agreement with the iGaming company SOFTSWISS. As part of the deal, its games will become available through the SOFTSWISS Game Aggregator, and platform operators will gain access to the entire 155.io lineup, including Rush Hour, Ducks, and the recently released Snow Run.

He worked at the company for over 20 years.

The California Assembly approved a bill on online game preservation, Mina the Hollower has a budget of $5 million, and Path of Exile 2’s online presence on Steam increased more than 18 times thanks to a major update. Here are the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.