In the first half of 2025, Wargaming’s division in Lithuania paid 5.8 million euros in taxes to the country’s treasury, reports dev.by, citing data from the State Tax Inspectorate under the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance. This is slightly less than the previous year — approximately 160,000 euros less.

The update that added a desert biome and a major discount have significantly boosted sales of the co-op climbing hit Peak, report analysts from Alinea Analytics.

Valve has made changes to the rating system on Steam. Now, along with a unified rating based on all written reviews, separate ratings are also generated for different languages in the store.

In mid-October, the next business conference “Game Industry” will open its doors in the capital of Russia. We are sharing the first details.

The analytical company The Harris Poll reached this conclusion after conducting a study commissioned by Google. A total of 615 developers from the USA, South Korea, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, primarily working in large studios, participated in the survey.

On June 12, the studio Flazm and publisher Polden Publishing released the railway economic puzzle game Train Valley Origins on Steam. According to Polden Publishing co-founder Kirill Oreshkin, “the game didn’t succeed at all.”

This was announced by Marvelous in an official press release.

An analyst has stated that the main competitor to GTA VI will be GTA V, animal rights activists have urged Nintendo to remove the nose ring from the Cow in Mario Kart World, and the creators of Sword of the Sea have admitted that their collaboration with Sony saved their studio. Here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

We spoke with Vitaly about how medicine, billiards, and filming a music show led him into game development. A gigantic personal interview.

The studio Blackbird Interactive has announced that the rights to the spaceship dismantling simulator Hardspace: Shipbreaker now fully belong to them. Previously, they shared these rights with the publisher Focus Entertainment.

Gamers have been anticipating the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong since 2019, and if nothing changes, it will happen by the end of this year. According to estimates by analysts from Alinea Analytics, over the long wait, more than 4.8 million Steam users have added Team Cherry’s game to their wishlists — more than any other upcoming release of 2025.

The management of AppsFlyer is planning to sell the marketing company, according to Calcalist, citing sources. The portal reports that managers are already in talks with a private investment firm, whose name has not been disclosed.

The news that the new installment of Mafia sold this number of copies was shared by VG Insights in a LinkedIn post.

For the past 20 years, AAA game prices have stayed roughly at the same level, despite a significant increase in development costs, stated former PlayStation Studios head Shawn Layden in an interview with GamesIndustry. He believes that this has been a mistake for the gaming industry.

The first half of 2025 was a good period for NetEase’s gaming division. The company reported an increase in its revenue.

A Chinese lawyer, Sun Qianhe (孙千和), believes that the player selection system in Honor of Kings operates unfairly: in his opinion, it intentionally adds weaker teammates to teams periodically to lower the win rate. He is attempting to defend his position in court against Tencent.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group, which will soon be rebranded as Fellowship Entertainment, has published its report for April-June 2025. Some key metrics came in lower than last year.

We analyzed data from over 60 public gaming companies to examine how their standings have changed since the beginning of 2025. In this special feature, we include graphs, tables, as well as numerous interesting insights and information about specific publishers and general trends across various markets.

Aaron Greenberg, the Vice President of Marketing at Xbox, shared this achievement of Grounded 2 on social media.