At the close of spring, the fourth session of the business conference “Gaming Industry” will open its doors. This time, it will be held in one of the largest cities in the Russian Far East, expecting around 300 participants. Here are the initial details.

The leading bestseller game in the U.S. last month was Assassin’s Creed Shadows, reports Circana analyst Mat Piscatella in a recent report. Monster Hunter Wilds, which topped the chart in February, fell to the third position.

The European Commission has indeed recognized Apple as a violator of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and has fined the corporation. Rumors about the agency’s plans to do this emerged as early as last summer.

Valve is preparing to add an optional section to game pages on Steam that will inform users about the availability of accessibility support in projects. For instance, whether there are features for adjusting text size or a voice assistant for the game menu.

The CEO of the Polish company CI Games, Marek Tymiński, is pleased with the results of a major update for Lords of the Fallen, which added seamless co-op support and a number of other improvements to the game. He mentioned that patch 2.0 significantly boosted the soulslike’s audience.

There is a cliché that “there’s something in this game for everyone.” Blue Prince, on the contrary, is not a game for everyone. In every sense, it’s an auteur piece that managed to break into the mainstream. We’ll explain how this game is structured, what its creator is famous for, and analyze its commercial performance and other metrics.

On the evening of April 22, Bethesda Game Studios and Virtuos released an updated version of the iconic The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This caused a huge stir: the Steam version of the remaster alone attracted 182,298 concurrent players at its peak.

Schedule I lost its leadership in the sales chart among paid games. During the week of April 15 to April 22, it was surpassed by Jagex’s new release—a cooperative survival game, RuneScape: Dragonwilds.

IT companies with roots in Belarus continue to downsize their staff in Lithuanian offices, including game developers. This is reported by dev.by.

Five months ago, on November 21, 2024, the Turkish studio Dream Games released the mobile puzzle game Royal Kingdom. Using data from the AppMagic service, we examined the results the game has achieved during this period.

The Chinese regulator has issued a new batch of licenses for game publishing in the Middle Kingdom. This time, the list of approved projects includes nine games from foreign developers.

A new deal in the Russian gaming market has come to light. The Moscow-based studio “Vintorog” has secured $250,000 in investments, which will be allocated to the development of an unannounced game.

On April 16, a conference for developers, publishers, and marketers of video games called “Gaming Industry” took place in Minsk. Here’s a quick recap of how it went, who attended, and, of course, we’ll share some final numbers and participant feedback.

The Internet Development Institute (IDI) has announced a new initiative. They launched a competition specifically for indie developers to submit the best ideas for game prototypes.

In late March, the British indie studio Digital Cybercherries unveiled the PlayStation version of the shooter featuring toy soldiers, Hypercharge: Unboxed. The developers boasted that the announcement generated significant interest from the audience.

Last Friday, April 18, marked one month since the release of Supercell’s new game, mo.co. We analyzed data from analytics service AppMagic to examine the title’s performance.

The founder of Turbine Games Consulting, Matthew Emery, decided to examine which platform was easier to succeed on last year—PC or mobile. To do this, he compared the revenue of approximately 8,000 new releases in 2024.

The creators of Palworld consider the patents, which Nintendo and The Pokémon Company accused them of violating, to be invalid; the beta test of Rematch by the developers of Sifu attracted 133,000 concurrent players on Steam; and sales of Ale & Tale Tavern exceeded 600,000 copies—here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

Last week, the studio Perelesoq published a study suggesting that Steam wishlists are becoming outdated, and strategies focused on collecting them are ineffective. Some members of the community criticized this work. Alexander Barabanov, lead designer at Sad Cat Studios, explained to the editors why one should approach Perelesoq’s conclusions with caution.