Simon Carless of GameDiscoverCo shared data on the audience size of some hit games on Steam. His statistics include both paid and free-to-play projects.

The founder of GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, decided to explore which games are popular among Steam Deck owners. He approached the task from an unconventional angle.

Starting September 26, the public phase of the reality competition by Xsolla and App2Top commences.

State Duma Deputy Yana Lantratova has proposed introducing an excise tax in Russia on games developed by foreign developers. She wants to set its rate at 10%, reports TASS.

Sales of No, I’m not a Human have exceeded 100,000 copies, the development of Ghost of Yōtei cost about the same as the development of Ghost of Tsushima, and Microsoft has decided to raise console prices in the US—here’s a recap of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The British holding company TruFin released its financial report for the first six months of 2025. Among other things, it discussed the results of its subsidiary, PlayStack, best known for publishing the card hit Balatro.

You voted — we delivered. Introducing a comprehensive report on the state of the European gaming market, complete with numerous graphs and data both for the region as a whole and for individual countries. We conducted an in-depth study of consumer spending along with other statistical metrics such as the number of gamers, developers, and gaming companies.

In studios developing AAA-level games, the popularity of proprietary engines has grown. This conclusion was reached by researchers from Perforce and JetBrains, who surveyed 521 developers from 49 countries.

Within a week of its release, Borderlands 4 has generated over $150 million across all platforms, claims Alinea Analytics. According to analysts, this allowed the game to recoup 60-65% of its estimated production budget.

On the evening of September 18, the release of the zombie-action game Dying Light: The Beast took place. According to data from the SteamDB service, the peak online count for the Steam version of the game at launch reached 89,927 people.

A week ago, the young Korean studio Lizard Smoothie, together with publisher Neowiz, released their debut game on Steam — a mix of MOBA and roguelike called Shape of Dreams. Seven days were enough for the title to sell 300,000 copies.

Swedish holding company Embracer Group is preparing to launch a share buyback program. The company plans to allocate no more than 500 million Swedish kronor ($53.7 million) for this initiative.

The Chinese giant Tencent has approached the court with a request to dismiss the lawsuit from Sony, which was filed due to the similarities between the game Light of Motiram and the Horizon series projects. According to Tencent, there is actually no plagiarism involved — Light of Motiram merely incorporates established gaming ideas and concepts.

Half of the applications currently available on RuStore were developed by foreign developers, claims Dmitry Pankrushev, the head of the store. He disclosed this information in a conversation with TASS at the Kazan Digital Week 2025 forum.

Electronic Arts and the Full Circle studio announced this on social media. According to them, the free-to-play skateboarding simulator attracted such an audience within just 24 hours.

This conclusion was reached by the consulting company MTM, which surveyed 1,500 console and PC gamers in the US and UK.

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.