SteamDB published the list of best-selling games for the period from February 11 to February 18.

The Moscow-based company Game Art Pioneers, which is developing the game DISTORTION, announced the departure of its founder, Dmitry Zdesev. He made this decision “due to differences in the vision of the company’s future development.”

The name is Studio 42. It plans to focus on creating casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.

Sources from insider Tom Henderson have discovered the status of the pre-sales for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. According to them, as of today, the number of pre-orders for the game has reached 300,000 copies.

Starbreeze has reported its financial results for 2024. The developers of PAYDAY announced a significant drop in revenue and substantial losses, while their income from publishing games by third-party studios significantly increased.

Chinese gamers have sharply reacted to the upcoming expansion for Hearts of Iron IV titled Graveyard of Empires. They’ve decided to take out their dissatisfaction on Paradox Interactive’s games in Steam, resulting in a flood of negative reviews.

In early February, it became known that Yandex acquired the rights to the trademarks “IgroMir” and Comic Con Russia. Accordingly, App2Top spoke with a representative of the corporation about the reasons for this deal and why they didn’t buy KRI.

Liquid Swords is a Swedish studio founded in 2020 by Avalanche Studios co-founder and Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg. Recently, the studio has begun layoffs.