The year 2025 proved to be rich in quality games from teams with Russian roots. More than seven projects were released, each earning over a million dollars on Steam. According to our forecasts, 2026 will be even richer in releases. We have compiled a list of games developed in Russian that have already garnered over 200,000 wishlists.

Playtika announced a major wave of layoffs.

Allegedly, Embracer Group was behind the lawsuit against the deal, which in November 2022 was filed by the Swedish pension fund AP7.

Meta Corporation* will undergo a significant restructuring within its Reality Labs division, which deals with the metaverse and virtual reality technologies. Among those affected will be gaming teams.

In the new year, we continue to sum up the results of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is a column by Pavel Raikkonen, the CEO and founder of WN Media Group, reflecting on the outcomes.

Let’s continue wrapping up the year 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Igor Ilyukhin, the Chief Operating Officer of Far Far Games.

Layoffs will occur at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm studios.

They requested to be reinstated at work during the legal proceedings.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Next up is an interview with Robert Bagratuni, head of Mundfish.

The announcement of the continuation of the visual novel “Everlasting Summer” sparked a storm of debates: gamers suspected that developers used neural networks at least in the creation of promotional materials. Here’s what happened.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with game development teams. Next in line is an interview with Pyotr Kostenko, co-founder and programmer at Divovision Games.

The game achieved such results in just two and a half months: the release of ARC Raiders occurred on October 30, 2025.

Currently, Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is one of Devolver Digital’s most popular games on Steam.

We continue summarizing the results of 2025 with teams involved in gaming or the gaming industry. This time, we spoke with Maxim Babichev, the CBDO of the company PlayDeck.

Tom Francis is the founder and head of the British studio Suspicious Developments, which created the games Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. In his blog, he gave some basic advice to indie teams.

We continue to summarize the outcomes of 2025 with gaming (or related to the gaming industry) teams. Up next is an interview with Andrey Tyagunov, co-founder of NavyField Mobile.

Recently, the analytical service Steam250 published a list of 250 games that were best received by Steam users in 2025. They assigned each game a score based on the number of reviews and approval rating.

We continue to review the results of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Danila Kamenev, Head of Publishing at Indie GO Fund.

The year 2026 has already marked a new online record for Steam. According to the SteamDB service, on the evening of January 11, there were 42,042,778 people on the platform simultaneously.