MY.GAMES announced significant management changes.

The LEGO Digital Play company has expanded. It announced the acquisition of ForthStar, a British mobile studio founded three years ago by the Playdemic founders, Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby.

On December 10, Tbilisi will host the WN C-Level Summit, which will bring together owners, founders, and top executives of gaming companies. The summit’s agenda includes reviews of the mobile and PC markets, discussions on strategies for the coming year, and a debate on cloning games using artificial intelligence.

How can you translate a functioning game from Flash to HTML5 without rewriting the client from scratch and without disrupting the players’ familiar experience? In a column for App2Top, SuperCity development director Kirill Ivanov discusses the gradual modernization of the project, the reasons for retaining old tools, and process automation that helped reduce certain tasks from several days to a few hours.

The European Commission is developing new restrictions for video games, reports PocketGamer. According to their sources, these new rules are part of the upcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA).

The Canadian studio Reflector Entertainment will soon cease to exist. Its owner, Bandai Namco, has decided to dissolve the team following an assessment of its business prospects.

Tripwire Interactive, known for Killing Floor and Maneater, announced the layoff of 36 employees. They shared this news on social media.

At the end of September, the authorities in Brazil temporarily banned online betting in the country — both in sports betting and online casinos. After the introduction of the ban, operators attempted to obtain a court order to resume operations, but unsuccessfully.

Take-Two Interactive doesn’t engage in mergers and acquisitions very frequently, yet they are open to deals. This was shared by their CEO, Strauss Zelnick, in an interview with GamesIndustry.

Only a few days remain until the release of GTA VI. In anticipation, Take-Two Interactive released its report for July-September 2026. This was the second quarter of the fiscal year 2027 for the company.

Co-founders of the gaming accelerator Narwhal, Dmitry Filatov and Grigory Bortnik, attempted to determine how effectively artificial intelligence assists in game development. To do this, they conducted an experiment—initially having AI independently develop a web game about an indie studio producer The Last Game Producer, and then having AI play it.

The updated version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is selling very well in the UK, claims journalist Christopher Dring from The Game Business. According to his data, the game has shown the second-best launch in the franchise in terms of the number of physical copies sold in the country.

Polden Publishing celebrated its second anniversary, as the company was launched in November 2024. In honor of this significant event, CEO Kirill Oreshkin shared the publisher’s metrics on LinkedIn.

In August 2026, the company GDEV announced the sale of the mobile farming simulator Island Hoppers. The announcement did not disclose the buyer’s name, but it has now been revealed that it was one of the subsidiary teams of the Swedish holding Embracer Group.

The authorities in Haiti have established a special organization to regulate gambling — the Autorité Nationale des Jeux de Hasard et d’Argent (ANJHA). It will oversee both land-based gambling and iGaming operations.

Valve is spending substantial amounts on VAT in Kazakhstan.

Developers at Star Wars Zero Company faced layoffs, the audience of the Death Stranding franchise reached 28 million people, and sales of Probably Stolen surpassed one million copies — we cover the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The analytical company Newzoo, in collaboration with the G2A platform, studied gamers’ purchasing habits. It turns out that many players are not in a hurry to buy new releases and increasingly prefer to wait for sales.

In 2026, within the niche of cleaning games, a distinct category of projects focusing on mass sorting emerged. Today, we will explore how this new wave differs from traditional cleaning and renovation simulators, with numerous tables, data, and observations regarding the changes in offerings amidst rising interest.