Strikerz is a studio with Belarusian roots, currently based in Cyprus. Anonymous sources have informed App2Top that it has faced mass layoffs due to challenges with the soccer simulator UFL.

In May, unknown individuals published the source code for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty online, more than 20 years after the game’s release. Now, the company Konami wants to find the perpetrators and hold them accountable.

Traditionally, following the Steam demo festival, we prepare a detailed report on the outcomes of the main projects and overall trends. We will also share less obvious conclusions, as well as discuss anomalous cases and unsuccessful boosts.

Nexon has decided to support independent developers from South Korea. To achieve this, they took an unusual step: they partnered with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the country and launched a multi-million dollar fund.

Recently, developers have been complaining that the game review process for publication on “Yandex Games” has been taking longer than usual. As the platform’s team explained, it’s all due to the sharp increase in the number of applications.

The French studio Douze Dixièmes has possibly ceased to exist. It operated for nine years.

Bloober Team announced that the revenue from sales of the action-horror game Cronos: The New Dawn has exceeded its production costs. It took the game nine months to reach its break-even point, with its release on September 5, 2025.

Estonia’s plan to attract foreign operators in the online gambling sector by reducing the tax rate has not yet yielded the expected results. At the end of last year, the rate was decreased from 6% to 4%, but this has attracted little interest.

The Italian studio 34BigThings bought itself out from the Embracer Group holding. All 100% of its shares were purchased by the team’s co-founder, Valerio Di Donato.

Steam users have shown great interest in the new installment of the legendary strategy franchise Stronghold. They added Stronghold 4 to their wishlists a quarter of a million times within just two weeks of the game’s announcement.

The French STJV union announced a nationwide strike in protest against extensive layoffs that have been occurring regularly in the local game development sector. The strike is scheduled for this week, on June 25.

Currently, CD PROJEKT RED refers to the game development division rather than the entire group of companies.

Rush Royale continues to uphold its status as one of the most successful games in the MY.GAMES portfolio.

Last week, Epic Games released an updated version of the Unreal Engine, numbered 5.8, which did not go unnoticed by Microsoft. In response, the corporation launched a special set of GDK plugins intended to simplify the development of games for the Xbox ecosystem on PC.

The announcement was made by tinyBuild’s CEO Alex Nichiporchik on the social network X.

As a result, the game climbed to the 90th spot in the list of the most anticipated projects on Steam.

The Chinese giant Tencent is preparing to divest some of its gaming assets in Japan, reports Bloomberg, citing sources.

The Portuguese gaming market regulator (SRIJ) reported on the first three months of 2026. It announced that the total gross gaming revenue of the iGaming market in the country amounted to €323.7 million for the quarter, which is a 13.7% increase compared to the previous year.

As reported by Kotaku, Electronic Arts (EA) has experienced another wave of layoffs. This affected some of the company’s employees in India and the USA.