Electronic Arts announced a significant restructuring of its gaming divisions. One of its main consequences will be the closure of BioWare, the studio renowned for the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. The company also decided to abandon the development of a new Mass Effect.

Like many mature markets, Finland is experiencing a transitional period. On one hand, the industry is still quite polarized. On the other, it has become noticeably more diverse over the past few years. However, it’s far from certain that the creators of notable indie hits in recent years will be able to build sustainable businesses.

The Polish studio One More Level, known for the Ghostrunner series, announced the profitability of its new action game, Valor Mortis. According to preliminary data, in the first week of sales, the game earned enough to cover the expenses outlined in the publishing agreement.

Mobile game developers have encountered increased review times for applications in the App Store. Previously, Apple typically approved new projects and updates within 24-48 hours, but now the process sometimes stretches to several weeks. This information comes from Mobilegamer.biz, citing representatives from small and medium-sized game studios.

The French studio DON’T NOD, known for Life is Strange and Vampyr, is striving to avoid bankruptcy. The company announced that on October 19, a Paris court approved its petition to initiate a judicial protection process (sauvegarde), which will temporarily freeze payments on old debts and provide time to seek funding.

The founder of Liquid Swords, Christofer Sundberg, confirmed the closure of the studio that released the action game Samson. Despite the company’s bankruptcy, he intends to remain in the gaming industry and is already considering forming a new team.

The indie game market can feature extremely unfavorable publishing agreements for developers. Co-founder of Innersloth (Among Us) and head of the Outersloth fund, Forest Willard, discussed this issue.

The studio Look North World, headed by Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian, has released its first game for Roblox in early access. This game is a free-to-play extraction shooter called Drifters. Prior to this, the company specialized in developing games for Fortnite.

On October 27, ” Road of Life ” will be released on Steam—a free game about a driver of a GAZ AA truck on the ice road of blockaded Leningrad. Sergey Gimelreich, the head of the ISKRA studio, shared with App2Top how the team gained support from the Internet Development Institute (IRI), balanced the budget, and turned the game concept from “driving on smooth ice.”

We continue our weekly series of YouTube interviews. The guest of the new episode is Dmitry Beley, co-founder of the gaming studio Solarsuit Games.

The European rating organization PEGI has begun revising the age ratings of previously released digital games that contain loot boxes and other mechanics involving the purchase of random items. Now, such projects will receive a PEGI 16 rating, even if they were previously marked PEGI 3, PEGI 7, or PEGI 12.

From November 2022 to October 2026, salaries in the gaming industry have decreased on average by 13%. This conclusion was reached by Amir Satvat, a partner at the venture fund 1Up Ventures.

Steam users are displeased with the large number of games featuring AI content at the October Steam Next Fest. Some have called on Valve to add a filter to the platform that would allow these projects to be hidden from recommendations.

Supercell has completed the full acquisition of the Finnish company Metacore, gaining 100% of the developer behind Merge Mansion. The parties officially announced the closure of the deal on October 19.

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.

TinyBuild’s achievements were boasted about on the social network X by the company’s CEO, Alex Nichiporchik.

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.

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.

Recently, investors have been generously investing in Turkish mobile studios.