The gaming analytics market continues to undergo consolidation. Sensor Tower has announced the acquisition of the platform Video Game Insights (VG Insights).

Layoffs continue among the developers of Payday. It has been reported that Starbreeze has finally decided to eliminate its French division.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. Up next, we have a piece on IamGraf, a rogue-like strategy game about managing a county.

Indie studio Pocketpair shared how the global success of Palworld unfolded at the GDC 2025 developer conference.

The Discord team has announced the release of the Discord Social SDK. With this tool, developers can integrate some chat service features directly into games.

The Polish studio The Farm 51 has announced layoffs. It decided to reduce its staff following the weak debut of the action RPG Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone.

On February 26, the Swedish indie studio semiwork released its new cooperative horror game, R.E.P.O, in early access on Steam. According to analytical service data, it has become a major hit.

Samsung has decided to reduce the commission in its Galaxy Store mobile app store. It announced that starting May 15, 2025, the commission rate for apps, games, and in-app purchases will be 20% instead of the current 30%.

The former head of Activision Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Kotaku and Gizmodo, Steam’s peak online users have exceeded 41 million, and People Can Fly will no longer publish VR games. Here’s a roundup of the key events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Fntastic has a knack for generating scandalous occurrences, and this situation is no exception.

Sources from Bloomberg have shared fresh details about the future of Ubisoft. According to their information, the French publisher wants to establish a new company and transfer part of its key franchises to it, including Assassin’s Creed.

Annie and Jeff Strain, founders of Prytania Media, are suing NetEase. They claim that the actions of the Chinese company led first to the closure of their subsidiary studios and then to the shutdown of Prytania Media itself.

Nikolay Dybowski no longer works at Ice-Pick Lodge. The studio announced his resignation on social media.

It’s been a while since we’ve had content in our “Profession” section. Let’s fix that. The new article focuses on the aspects of working as a business development manager, also known as a bizdev. Victoria Belyaeva, Head of PR and Partnerships at AppMagic, shares what such a specialist does in her column for App2Top.

Back in 2008, Ubisoft opened a studio in Singapore and has since repeatedly received subsidies from the country’s authorities. In early March, Singaporean Member of Parliament Gerald Giam raised the issue of the sustainability of such prolonged government support for the company.

Valve has published Steam’s statistics for 2024. We’ve selected a few figures.

Hazelight Studios, founded by Josef Fares, announced on their Bluesky social media account that the cooperative adventure game Split Fiction has sold two million copies.

The Netflix catalog contains around a hundred games. As of today, the total number of downloads is 295 million, reports the MobileGamer portal, citing data from the analytics service AppMagic.

The American company Pragma has announced receiving strategic investments. It has been allocated $12.75 million to develop its namesake BaaS (backend-as-a-service) platform, used in operating live service games.