This year, the editorial team at App2Top.ru is hosting its own gaming awards. It’s called the App2Top Awards and it recognizes the achievements of gaming teams from the CIS. The editorial team invites its readers to select the nominees.

Horror games represent a market with steady demand, a relatively low entry barrier for developers, and established rules. In our new report, we aim to examine how attractive this niche remains from a commercial perspective. As always, we include plenty of tables, data, and interesting observations.

The German studio Fishlabs announced on LinkedIn that it has been forced to part ways with some of its employees.

Starting January 2027, the so-called “IT Patent Law” will come into effect in Russia, which will expand the possibilities for software patent protection. According to the head of Rospatent, Yuri Zubov, the innovations will also apply to game developers—for instance, they will have the opportunity to patent skins.

American Congressman Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce the Power to the Players Act bill. Its goal is to protect gamers’ rights and prevent situations where publishers revoke access to purchased games.

The developers from Wych Elm shared this information on social media.

Valve decided to introduce another round of changes to its digital store’s functionality. This time, it focused on upgrading its game achievements system, currently available only in the beta version of the Steam client.

European gambling regulators, together with Google, are working on creating a list of legal operators from the iGaming sector. This was reported by Michel Groothuizen, head of the Dutch supervisory authority (KSA).

The creator of DayZ, Dean Hall, published a lengthy post on Reddit where he criticized the current state of the gaming industry. In his opinion, one of the main problems of modern game development is the greed of large tech companies and the dependence of developers on third-party tools.

The gaming company “Lesta Games” is no longer owned by Rosimushchestvo. It announced its transition into the hands of a consortium of private investors from JSC “Industrial Structures”.

The action RPG reached this milestone three weeks after its release.

The virtual reality market is still in its developmental stage due to the inconvenient form factor of VR headsets, according to Owlchemy Labs CEO Andrew Eiche. He made this statement in an interview with Game Developer.

In the professional game development community, there’s a theory suggesting that Steam wishlists have lost their former value. Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski explored this notion and shared his findings in the How To Market A Game blog.

In April 2018, MY.GAMES released the mech shooter War Robots on Steam. Over the years, the game has performed quite well.

The exact amount is not disclosed.

The veteran of Japanese game development and creator of the Zero Escape series, Kotaro Uchikoshi, has officially announced a studio called CRASH KEYS.

The Chinese giant Tencent made another investment, reports PocketGamer citing its sources. This time, the company supported Flow Games—a Turkish mobile game development studio.

The Argentine Revenue and Customs Control Agency (ARCA) calculated the amount of indirect taxes from authorized online betting and gambling platforms in the country for the period from January to September 2026. It amounted to 123.85 billion Argentine pesos ($81 million).

The company Funcom has announced another restructuring. The reason is their desire to focus on supporting and developing only two games — Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles.