The analytics company Newzoo has released a forecast for the global video game market in 2025. Here are the key points:

The SunStrike team shared with App2Top their case study on implementing AI in the game testing pipeline.

A new venture fund focusing on games and media franchises will also be established.

The release of Hollow Knight: Silksong was extremely successful, reports the analytics company Alinea Analytics. According to their estimates, over 5 million people tried the new game across all platforms in the first three days, including those on the Game Pass subscription.

We continue to share the video presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Gaming Industry” conference (GIC), which took place in July. Today’s highlight is the talk by Slava Gris from RedblackSpade, the creator of games such as Reflection of Mine, Catmaze, and Fearmonium. His topic was “AI is changing development. But how is it changing developers?”

This information comes from the GameDiscoverCo service.

Azur Games is entering the game analytics market. The company announced that it is opening access for third-party teams to Azur Games Analytics—its internal platform for evaluating mobile game metrics, as well as working with monetization and creatives.

At the 2025 Roblox Developer Conference, Roblox’s Senior Vice President Nick Tornow shared information about the annual revenue of the most successful developers on the platform. He refrained from naming names but disclosed the average amounts.

The low price of Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused concern among indie developers, SEGA veterans discussed crunch time in the company during the 1990s and 2000s, and the daily active audience for Grow a Garden has reached 60 million people — a brief summary of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Hollow Knight: Silksong can already be considered one of the major game releases of 2025. In today’s piece, we provide a detailed analysis of the game’s launch from various metric perspectives and compare it to other Metroidvanias and titles in different genres.

We continue to share videos of presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Games Industry” Conference (CII), which took place in July. Today’s focus is on a presentation by Daniil Kolesnikov, a business development manager at HeroCraft. He spoke on the topic “Early Access Mistakes Illustrated by HeroCraft Games.”

On August 20, 2025, the Chinese action game Black Myth: Wukong finally arrived on Xbox consoles — exactly one year after its release on PC and PlayStation. Rickard Linder, head of the analytics company Alinea Analytics, mentioned on LinkedIn that the launch went by without much fanfare.

According to Nigel Lowrie, co-founder of Devolver Digital, the upcoming GTA VI might become the first AAAAA game. He shared his vision during a conversation with IGN.

Firaxis Games has lost part of its staff. The layoffs were first reported on social media by the affected developers themselves, and later confirmed by 2K Games—the studio’s parent company.

As Konami announced in an official press release, the game surpassed this milestone on the day of release — August 28, 2025.

On the evening of September 4, 2025, the highly anticipated Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong was released on PC and consoles. The new release from Team Cherry created significant excitement.

In recent years, there’s been a noticeable trend towards cozy games: more and more projects under the “cozy” tag have been released on Steam each year. What exactly is this trend, and is it worth pursuing in game development? We discussed with Alexander Blintsov, Dmitry Muratov, and Kirill Oreshkin.

We continue to share video presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Gaming Industry” (KII) conference, which took place in July. Next up is the presentation by Andrey Belousov, co-founder of the studio Door 407, which developed Diplomacy is Not an Option. He talked about “The Experience of Working with Steam and Other Platforms Over the Last Three Years”.

It is possible that MindsEye might be the first and only third-party game published by IO Interactive. In an interview with IGN, the company’s CEO Hakan Abrak admitted that the future of the IOI Partners label is uncertain.