Paradox Interactive has released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026, which spanned from July 1 to September 30. The company is performing well.

We continue our weekly series of YouTube interviews. The guest of the new episode is Alexander Vashchenko, the founder and CEO of the game studio Game Gears.

Developers have started releasing games much more frequently on the digital store itch.io. Over the past two months, the average daily number of game pages created on the platform has effectively doubled.

An anonymous gamer published an open letter urging Ubisoft to resume the development of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. He stated that he would provide the company with generous funding if they agree to “resurrect” the project.

The American prediction platform Kalshi has raised $1 billion in an investment round. Its market value is now estimated at $40 billion, which is an 82% increase compared to May 2026 during the previous round.

The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has discovered that users of illegal gambling platforms often continue to play on licensed sites as well. In other words, illegal gambling more frequently supplements legal gambling rather than replacing it.

The developer of “World of Tanks” and “World of Warships” should consider going public, according to Indie GO Fund’s managing partner, Vladimir Varenik. He expressed this opinion in an interview with RBC newspaper.

Studio S-GAME announced this achievement on social media.

Anthropic confirmed a ban in Claude on copying other people’s games, Jason Schreier found out why EA shut down BioWare, and the creators of Lords of the Fallen II took out a loan to complete the game — here’s a rundown of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The release of Phantom Blade Zero provides an opportunity not only to examine the impressive metrics of the new Chinese blockbuster but also to discuss the two decades leading up to this project. From RPG Maker, mobile platforms, investments from Tencent, financial discipline, and creative compromises.

WN Media Group announced the next WN C-Level Summit — an event for owners, founders, and top managers of gaming companies. This year, the summit will take place on December 10 in the capital of Georgia.

Indie studios should finance game development gradually, increasing expenditure as demand is confirmed. This is the opinion of Nicholas Lovell, the Product and Strategy Director at Britain’s Spilt Milk Studios, known for Trash Goblin.

The Chinese action RPG, Phantom Blade Zero, developed by the studio S-GAME, showcased one of the largest launches in Steam history. On its release day, October 29, the game reached a peak online count of 723,876 players. This achievement placed the game at 15th in the platform’s historical rankings.

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has released a study on illegal gambling in the country, questioning the notion that the use of unlicensed operators directly displaces activity from licensed companies.

Playgama has introduced the AI Game Index—a service that compares AI models and game development tools based on actual player behavior. Unlike traditional AI benchmarks that assess specific task performance, this index considers user engagement in published projects.

The shooter Gears of War: E-Day, released by Microsoft on October 6, sold over 400,000 copies on PC and Xbox. This was reported by The Verge journalist Tom Warren, citing his own source.

Xsolla announced the acquisition of the Italian platform GamePix, which specializes in the publishing and distribution of browser games.

Google has manually restricted the rankings in search results for several publications associated with Clickout Media.

The developers of the action-platformer Heart Abyss revealed that the publisher decided to keep an AI-generated image on the main page of the game in Steam, even though the team had an alternative drawn by an artist. The decision was due to advertising results: the AI art proved to be more clickable.