Four years ago, the Russian gaming industry hit turbulent times. Established connections and processes were disrupted. Translation issues arose, and many teams, including large and successful ones, relocated. The game development sector seemed isolated. As a result, a part of the community formed the opinion that the industry needed rebuilding from scratch. New gaming organizations like RVI and APRIORI were involved in this reconstruction. We spoke with them about how they perceive the current state…

The turn has come for Tencent in finalizing financial results. As reported by the Chinese giant in its first-quarter 2026 report, its gaming division is consistently performing well.

We continue to publish videos of presentations from the “Gaming Industry” conference, which took place on April 22 in Minsk. Today, we are posting the presentation “Mobile Games by License of a Popular Brand. How Does It Work? From Idea to Top Rankings in App Stores.” The presentation was delivered by Alexey Kozyakov, who is responsible for the “Three Cats” brand at “STS Media.”

Sony’s gaming division regularly invests in projects from third-party developers, claims Christian Svensson, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Sony Interactive Entertainment.

At the beginning of summer, the doors will open on the banks of the Bosphorus for WN Istanbul’26. This will be a jubilee — the tenth Istanbul event for game developers and publishers organized by WN Media Group.

The Japanese company Capcom released its report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026. In the document, it boasted new records.

The company Super Group, which owns the brands Betway and Spin, has reported its first-quarter results for 2026. In the report, it announced the largest quarterly revenue in its history — $612 million compared to $517 million the previous year.

Simon Zhu is a former President of Global Investments and Partnerships at NetEase. In an interview with Bloomberg, he revealed that at the end of 2025, he founded a holding company called GreaterThan Group, which plans to actively invest money in gaming studios.

Konami reported that the game reached this milestone on April 24, 2026.

The analytics company Sensor Tower has unexpectedly acquired another competing gaming analytics service. AppMagic has now become part of its offerings.

We are starting to publish daily videos of the reports from the “Game Industry” conference, which took place at the end of April in Minsk. The series is opened by the report “Funding a Game with Just One Trailer: All the Secrets to Getting Wishlist Sign-ups with Video,” presented by Dmitry Kungurov, co-founder of Multifora Digital and Ruler Productions.

We are starting to publish videos of the talks from the “Game Industry” conference, which took place at the end of April in Minsk, on a daily basis. The series opens with the presentation “Recoup a Game with a Single Trailer: All the Secrets to Gaining Wishlists with Videos,” delivered by Dmitry Kungurov, co-founder of Multifora Digital and Ruler Productions.

The funds will be used to develop a new game—”more large-scale and ambitious.”

The South Korean company Pearl Abyss has reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2026. It announced that its main source of revenue this time was Crimson Desert, even though the game was released at the very end of the period: its launch occurred on March 19, while the quarter ended on March 31.

In our new YouTube segment, together with programmer Alena Ponomarenko, we discussed how to choose the right engine, and at the same time, we talked about the pros and cons of the main solutions on the market.

Apple has updated the rules for app placement in the Brazilian App Store for services that include betting. Now, developers must obtain a license for conducting betting activities from Brazil’s regulator.

Clay John, a board member of the Godot Foundation, shared intriguing statistics about the engine in the Godot blog. Among other things, he calculated how many games created with Godot have been released on Steam in recent years.

Nacon has put the studio behind Edge of Memories up for sale, a veteran from Epic Games is set on creating a “European alternative” to Unreal Engine, and the publisher of MOUSE: P.I. For Hire has recouped its investment on the game — here’s a rundown of the major events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Forklift Interactive managed to achieve these results in three years: the publisher launched in 2023.