The Godot team continues to modernize the engine. Recently, they released version 4.5.

In an interview with App2Top, the top executives of the media franchise — Roman Goroshkin, Alexander Minkin, and Yaropolk Rash — discussed in detail the upcoming MMORPG “Sineus“, their immediate plans for its development, and the unique aspects of working at Sineus Publishing, a publishing and label company aspiring to achieve the gaming equivalent of Blumhouse Productions.

The dev.by portal asked employees at the Minsk office of “Lesta Games” how their work has been affected by the events in Russia concerning the company. According to the responses, no major changes have occurred.

On September 11-12, the WN Conference Cyprus’25 for game developers and publishers took place in Limassol. Here’s a brief overview of the event.

Nekki has received support from Epic Games. The company announced that it received $50,000 as part of the Epic MegaGrant program.

MY.GAMES celebrates the first anniversary of Fable Town. To mark the occasion, the company shared a new set of data about the game.

On how to avoid chaos when planning new features — especially for App2Top, Natalia Popova, the manager of Overmobile’s game team and the host of the course “Game Project Management” at WN Academy, shared her insights.

Hollow Knight: Silksong was unable to hold the top spot in Steam’s best-selling games chart for long. As of the week ending September 9-16, it fell to fourth place, yielding its lead to another new release — Borderlands 4.

On September 16, during trading, the value of tinyBuild shares reached 11 pence ($0.15) per unit, which is 13% higher than the previous day and overall the best result for the company since the end of 2023. This was how its investors reacted to the financial report for the first half of 2025.

The game’s author, Oleg Kazakov, mentioned this figure during an interview with IXBT Games at the “CONF 2025” festival.

The analytical platform AppMetrica shared data with App2Top regarding the popularity of various monetization models for mobile games in Russia during the first half of 2025.

On the evening of September 15, 2025, the Russian indie studio Trioskaz, alongside publisher Critical Reflex, released No, I’m not a Human—a horror game about creatures that mimic human appearance and attempt to infiltrate real people’s homes. The Steam audience received the project very positively.

The law firm Semenov&Pevzner has prepared a comprehensive report on legal conflicts in the gaming industry for the first half of this year.

We continue to share video recordings from the St. Petersburg session of the “Game Industry” conference, which took place in July. Today, we feature a presentation by Marina Lopatina, the Business Development Director of the recruitment agency WN Talents. She spoke on the topic “The Russian and International Job Markets: Similarities, Differences, Prospects.”

On Thursday, a conference dedicated to web game development will be held in the capital of Russia. It’s called GP Conf 2025.

The Ministry of Finance of Mexico has proposed introducing a special 8% tax on games with “violent” content in the country. The idea is outlined in Mexico’s 2026 budget program.

The team behind the Russian engine, Nau Engine, has decided to close its legal entity, as indicated by data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL). The newspaper “Kommersant” took notice of this development.

We spoke with Yaroslav Kravtsov, who has been developing games on Roblox for over five years, about the features of the platform.

Roskomnadzor has added itch.io to the list of sites blocked in Russia, the creative director of Hell is Us called the surprise release of Hollow Knight: Silksong “a somewhat heartless decision,” and the peak concurrent users for Borderlands 4 on Steam exceeded 304,000 people. Here’s a rundown of the key events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.