In 2019, Germany launched a support program for gaming companies, initially in a pilot phase. Since then, it has become officially established in the country, with developers and publishers receiving millions of euros in subsidies from the authorities.

In Vietnam, as in China, there is a limit on the amount of time minors can spend on video games. Now, they are looking to make it even stricter.

On July 15, the Armenia-based Space Raccoon Game Studio and publisher Spaghetti Cat released a lumberjack simulator with the straightforward title A Game About Chopping Trees. Recently, this new release reached its first major sales milestone.

The Parliament of Bangladesh has approved a new law concerning gambling, including online gambling. It has introduced a series of severe penalties in the country.

The “net” income from the game is lower, but not by much.

The publisher of Squirrel With A Gun and Maximum Football has laid off all its US employees, Rockstar Games co-founder commented on Sony’s decision to abandon physical discs, and Dinoblade sales exceeded 36,000 copies in one day—here are the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Sony’s upcoming move away from discs has become one of the most talked-about events in the industry in recent months. We decided to take a look at the situation from a market data perspective to find out how the share of digital sales has changed among major publishers and what the current state of gaming retail is.

The company KRAFTON announced a new deal. It has invested in Neon—a platform focused on infrastructure for direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales in mobile games.

At the beginning of autumn, one of the largest cities in Cyprus will host a new session of the conference for developers and publishers organized by WN Media Group. Among its guests are expected representatives from Loot, Xsolla, Avow, OHM, ByteDance, GEM Capital, and many other companies.

It took exactly one year for the Chinese souls-like game Wuchang: Fallen Feathers to reach this milestone: its release took place on July 24, 2025, on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.

Gaming companies from China engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at an impressive pace during the first six months of 2026. This conclusion was reached by Youxi Tuoluo, which analyzed activity in the local market.

The corporation was accused of failing to comply with the Digital Market Act.

The largest pension funds in Australia are actively investing in gambling, according to a study by SustainoMetric. Analysts noted that 20 funds hold gambling stocks worth at least 14.8 billion Australian dollars, or 10.33 billion U.S. dollars.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot does not see a disaster in Sony’s decision to stop producing discs for new PlayStation games after 2028. He stated this during a conference call with investors and analysts.

In Ubisoft’s latest financial report, the company also shared new sales data for the remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. They announced that within 14 days from its release, the game sold 3.5 million copies.

The financial reporting period has arrived, and Ubisoft was quick to announce its results for April-June 2026. This marked the first quarter of the current fiscal year for the company, and it didn’t go very smoothly.

New material in the “Investor/Publisher Wanted” section. Today, we’re highlighting a collectible card game from Belarusian developers. It’s called “The Load of the Lord.”

On June 22, 2026, the stock price of the Chinese giant Tencent fell by 7.1%, as noted by Bloomberg. The last time it decreased by a larger percentage in a single day was nearly a year and a half ago, in April 2025.

It seems that yet another game studio has closed its doors. This time, the Spanish Vermila Studios has gone “under the knife”.