Sales of the cooperative hit about disguise and hiding using paints, Meccha Chameleon, continue to gain momentum.

The Georgian iGaming studio, Aviator Studio, and the French betting operator, Betclic, are now partners. As part of the agreement, Betclic’s users have gained access to Aviator—a crash game about airplanes.

In February 2025, the Dutch consumer rights organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument filed a class action lawsuit against Sony’s gaming division. A year and a half later, the authors of Stop Killing Games — an initiative for the preservation of games — agreed to join the case.

This conclusion was reached by Alinea Analytics.

The studio behind Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the horror anthology The Dark Pictures announced upcoming layoffs. In total, Supermassive Games plans to cut up to 75 employees.

If this continues, the year 2026 will set a negative record for the number of bankruptcies.

A new major deal has emerged in the gaming market. The web comics platform Webtoon has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in the South Korean holding company RI Games.

The frequency of this occurrence was not disclosed.

A month and a half ago, the Polish company group CD PROJEKT announced plans to slightly adjust its name. Now, the formalities are settled, and it has transformed into CD PROJEKT RED.

The Remedy Entertainment report for the first half of 2026 has arrived. In the document, the Finnish company not only disclosed its financial results but also shared the achievements of individual games.

The illegal segment of the American online gambling market is rapidly growing, according to a study by Gaming Compliance International. Analysts estimate that last year, its revenue reached $97.4 billion.

On August 4, 2026, the studio House House and publisher Panic released Big Walk—a cooperative adventure where players explore an open world and solve puzzles. As the creators reported, the new release was purchased over a million times worldwide in just the first six days.

In mid-summer, Ubisoft conducted mass layoffs in its Barcelona division. Now it has come to light that its former employees did not remain idle and have launched their own independent studio.

Epic Games has unexpectedly divested two assets: the artist platform ArtStation and the 3D model publishing platform Sketchfab. They have been acquired by the company KitBash.

We continue our series of YouTube interviews. The guests of the new episode are Platon Fomichev and Rostislav Mikheev from the outsourcing studio Elverils. We had an in-depth discussion with them about the challenges of creating remasters.

The announcement about reaching the milestone was made in his Telegram channel by Kirill Oreshkin, the CEO of Polden Publishing.

Paradox Interactive announced the launch of a share buyback program. This program will continue until May 2027.

The first half of 2026 turned out to be quite favorable for Paradox Interactive. In its financial report, the Swedish company reported a growth in its revenue.

Another mobile game developer has attracted investments. Now, it has been reported by FunVenture — a Polish team specializing in pixel projects.