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News Today 14:43

Almost half of surveyed Steam users play video games exclusively on PC — study

Analysts from the GameDiscoverCo service continue to survey Steam users. This time they decided to find out on which devices gamers usually play — not just titles from their Steam library, but video games in general.
News Today 12:51

Over the past three months, tinyBuild games have garnered over 4 million wishlists on Steam

TinyBuild’s achievements were boasted about on the social network X by the company’s CEO, Alex Nichiporchik.
News Today 12:00

Russians have encountered fraud in online games much less frequently

The Department for Combating Illicit Use of Information and Communication Technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported this on its Telegram channel.
iGaming Today 11:25

The iGaming market in France reached 1.45 billion euros by the end of the first half of 2026

In France, the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of licensed operators in the online gambling sector reached nearly one and a half billion euros in the first half of 2026. It grew by 11% compared to the previous year, reported the local regulator ANJ.
News Today 10:34

Mobile game developers from Turkey raised nearly $400 million over 22 months—more than teams from any other countries

Recently, investors have been generously investing in Turkish mobile studios.
News Today 09:31

The main events over the weekend (October 17-18)

The developer studio Samson may have gone bankrupt, a BioWare veteran stated that CD PROJEKT RED’s ambitions could lead it into big trouble, and Ratatan sales have been revealed — we recap the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.
App2Top Awards 2026 October 16

Nominate candidates for the App2Top Awards 2026 gaming award

This year, the editorial team at App2Top.ru is hosting its own gaming awards. It’s called the App2Top Awards and it recognizes the achievements of gaming teams from the CIS. The editorial team invites its readers to select the nominees.
Premium Industry October 16

What Horror Games Indie Developers Should Create: A Visual Benchmark of the Niche in Numbers and Charts

Horror games represent a market with steady demand, a relatively low entry barrier for developers, and established rules. In our new report, we aim to examine how attractive this niche remains from a commercial perspective. As always, we include plenty of tables, data, and interesting observations.
News October 16

The Fishlabs studio has been hit by a wave of layoffs

The German studio Fishlabs announced on LinkedIn that it has been forced to part ways with some of its employees.
News October 16

In Russia, skins in games will be allowed to be patented

Starting January 2027, the so-called “IT Patent Law” will come into effect in Russia, which will expand the possibilities for software patent protection. According to the head of Rospatent, Yuri Zubov, the innovations will also apply to game developers—for instance, they will have the opportunity to patent skins.
News October 16

In the United States, a proposal has been made to legally grant gamers ownership rights to digital versions of games

American Congressman Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce the Power to the Players Act bill. Its goal is to protect gamers’ rights and prevent situations where publishers revoke access to purchased games.
News October 16

The horror metroidvania Silver Pines was purchased over 100,000 times at launch

The developers from Wych Elm shared this information on social media.
News October 16

Steam is testing a new achievement system

Valve decided to introduce another round of changes to its digital store’s functionality. This time, it focused on upgrading its game achievements system, currently available only in the beta version of the Steam client.
iGaming October 16

EU authorities and Google are preparing a “white list” of iGaming operators

European gambling regulators, together with Google, are working on creating a list of legal operators from the iGaming sector. This was reported by Michel Groothuizen, head of the Dutch supervisory authority (KSA).
News October 16

“The industry is rotting from the inside”: the creator of DayZ spoke out against large corporations and released the source code of the BRUTAL framework

The creator of DayZ, Dean Hall, published a lengthy post on Reddit where he criticized the current state of the gaming industry. In his opinion, one of the main problems of modern game development is the greed of large tech companies and the dependence of developers on third-party tools.
News October 16

“Lesta Games” has been sold; its new owner is JSC “Industrial Structures”

The gaming company “Lesta Games” is no longer owned by Rosimushchestvo. It announced its transition into the hands of a consortium of private investors from JSC “Industrial Structures”.
News October 16

Sales of Control Resonant surpassed one million copies

The action RPG reached this milestone three weeks after its release.
News October 15

The head of Owlchemy Labs identified the bulkiness of devices as the main barrier for the VR market

The virtual reality market is still in its developmental stage due to the inconvenient form factor of VR headsets, according to Owlchemy Labs CEO Andrew Eiche. He made this statement in an interview with Game Developer.
News October 15

Steam is experiencing “wishlist inflation,” but they are still important — analysis

In the professional game development community, there’s a theory suggesting that Steam wishlists have lost their former value. Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski explored this notion and shared his findings in the How To Market A Game blog.
News October 15

The Steam version of War Robots generated $50 million over eight and a half years

In April 2018, MY.GAMES released the mech shooter War Robots on Steam. Over the years, the game has performed quite well.
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