Ubisoft announced the creation of a subsidiary company to which it plans to transfer some of its major franchises. Tencent has become an investor in the new organization.

Next Friday, April 4th, the spring session of the WN Conference will take place in Berlin, an event for video game developers and publishers. This article covers the program of the upcoming event.

Today, the Xbox brand is no longer associated with a single console, and the company itself is steadily shedding its role as a traditional platform holder. This strategy may be the only winning path for Microsoft Gaming. However, in its pursuit of being present on every existing screen, there is a risk of not establishing itself on any one of them.

Ubisoft announced that the audience for Assassin’s Creed Shadows has surpassed 3 million players. This number was reached within a week of the game’s release: it launched on March 20.

During the presentation at GDC 2025, Valve representatives revealed statistics on games launched in Early Access on Steam. Below are the key figures.

At the GDC 2025 developers’ conference, Valve shared some data about Steam. Specifically, it revealed that in 2024, the Chinese language overtook English as the most popular language on the platform.

Cloud Imperium Games has closed its Los Angeles office. The company announced the closure in a newsletter to users who have donated significant funds for the development of Star Citizen.

On April 16th, as part of the ” Gaming Industry” conference, there will be a presentation and critique of games by independent developers — the Indie Pitch. At this event, young teams will present their games to experts from the Agency of Creative Technologies (ACT) and the Indie GO Fund.

Niantic is also cutting part of its workforce amid restructurings that followed the sale of Pokémon GO and its other games to mobile publisher Scopely.