Looking back at 2025, we couldn’t help but examine the state of Steam as a gaming platform. In today’s comprehensive report — records, median revenue of new releases, the most popular tags and engines, as well as chart leaders and other data. All traditionally accompanied by graphs and commentary.

The analytics company Sensor Tower released a comprehensive report detailing the state of the mobile app market in 2025. We have highlighted the key findings related to games.

A year ago, the studio Pocketpair, known for the sensational game Palworld, decided to try its hand in the publishing niche. In an interview with The Game Business portal, the head of Pocketpair Publishing, John Buckley, mentioned that his team approaches game publishing with a significant amount of altruism.

We continue to wrap up 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Yuri Bogdanov, co-founder of TryHard Games studio.

We continue summarizing the achievements of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Sergey Belyaev, co-founder of INFUSION GAMES.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry (and related fields). Up next is an interview with Alexandra Kurdyumova, a senior partner and co-founder of Futura Digital.

The overall audience for the zombie-checkpoint simulator should be even larger: the statistics do not account for the copies distributed through the PC Game Pass subscription.

As of today, it has received 436 statuettes in this category.

The game reached this sales milestone just under three years after its launch: it debuted in early access in March 2023 and was officially released in May 2025.

This was reported on the social network X by the CEO of Larian Studios, Swen Vincke.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Up next is an interview with Sergey Efremov, the Chief Operating Officer of Astrum Entertainment.

The UK National Video Game Council, which includes representatives from various gaming companies, is dissatisfied with the level of government support in the UK. In their opinion, the government pays very little attention to the game development industry.

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with game teams. This time, we spoke with the top managers of the publishing company Zavod Games — CEO Anton Stasenko and Business Development Director Denis Levchik.

We continue summarizing the outcomes of 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Daria Pogrebnyak, Business Development Manager at Mytona.

In three weeks, on February 11-12, a business event for game developers and publishers, WN Abu Dhabi’26, will take place in Abu Dhabi. On the first day of the event, besides other activities, there will be a game showcase and an indie pitch—a presentation with project reviews by experts. Applications are currently being accepted.

This initiative was put forward by the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Davankov, as well as deputies Sardan Avksentyev and Yaroslav Samylin.

Sales on consoles also increased, but the extent of this growth is not disclosed.

We continue to wrap up 2025 with game teams. Next up is an interview with Sergey Konstantinov, CEO of the studio D.Dream games.

The Italian antitrust regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercat (AGCM), has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard. It suspects that the company may have violated consumer protection laws.