Circana analyst Mat Piscatella continues to share data on the U.S. gaming market. He published detailed statistics for May, which include information on revenue and top blockbusters.

A group of 48 Chinese developers has expressed dissatisfaction with the commission in the App Store. They submitted a complaint against Apple to the State Administration for Market Regulation in China.

In recent years, gamers have increasingly purchased games in digital form, leading to a decline in physical edition sales. However, there was recently a slight rise in the popularity of discs and cartridges in the U.S.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney gave a comprehensive interview to PC Gamer. During the conversation, he shared his opinion on Steam’s requirement to label games created using artificial intelligence.

Games from Russian and generally Russian-speaking teams rarely make it to consoles. We discussed why this is the case with Fair Games, Sobaka Studio, Odd Meter, DANGEN Entertainment, and many others.

The Czech studio Bohemia Interactive has unexpectedly decided to open the source code of one of its games. It uploaded the source code of the military simulator Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, now known as Arma: Cold War Assault, on GitHub.

The Japanese developer lemorion_1224, the creator of the “friendslop” hit Meccha Chameleon, quickly shared fresh sales information about their game.

The game managed to reach a new milestone 16 months after its release: it launched in February 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.

Recently, Reuters sources reported that the gambling holding Entain is considering selling its business in Central and Eastern Europe. A few days later, the company itself confirmed this information.

Not only at Bungie was there an announcement of layoffs yesterday, June 26. A similar statement was also made by the VR studio Combat Waffle Studios.

Additionally, some members of the Marathon team and Sony employees who assisted Bungie were also affected by the layoffs.

Last week, WN Istanbul’26 took place in Istanbul — the tenth anniversary Turkish event for game developers and publishers organized by WN Media Group. Here’s what happened at the event.

The Japanese government has long considered it extremely important to promote the country’s culture abroad. To achieve this, officials are focusing on the local content industry, which includes video games, anime, music, and much more.

It took a month for the life simulator to surpass the million mark: the release of Paralives took place on May 25, 2026.

Analysts from Atomik Research examined the situation in the web gaming market. They conducted a survey for the gaming platform Poki, involving over 400 developers and 2,000 web gamers from the US and the UK.

A new entry in the “Investor/Publisher Wanted” section. This time, we’re spotlighting the game Atlas of Eternity. This is the second project from Vengeance Games. It’s a space-based 4X strategy game.

The Brazilian publisher and developer Afil Games made this statement.

Recently, media outlets reported that in July, Microsoft’s gaming division plans to conduct mass layoffs. In anticipation of this, several former XBOX employees told the portal Game Developer that there is a significant likelihood that top managers will use the layoffs for “revenge” against workers.

It has become known about the opening of another gaming fund. It was created by the investment company Denmu.