The Danish studio Playdead is indeed demanding that its co-founder and former CEO Dino Patti pay $72,600 in compensation due to a post on social media. The studio confirmed its claims in a comment to the portal Game Developer.

The new cooperative adventure by Hazelight Studios is selling multiple times faster than the studio’s previous games. Josef Fares’ team announced that they sold one million copies of Split Fiction just two days after the game’s release.

This morning, on March 10th, it became known that the Institute for Internet Development (IID) proposed that BRICS countries collaborate to regulate the gaming industry. Anton Gorelkin, a member of the Russian State Duma and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, commented on this idea in his Telegram channel.

The Polish studio Reality Games announced the successful acquisition of investments. They received $4.7 million, which they plan to use for further development and testing of a mobile location-based game inspired by Monopoly — Monopoly World.

Online observations have noted that Nintendo has recently entered the top 10 Japanese public companies with the largest market capitalization. It holds the tenth position in the CompaniesMarketCap portal ranking with a valuation of 79.1 billion dollars.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) believes that BRICS countries should collectively engage in regulating the gaming industry. This is stated in a recent study by the organization, reviewed by our colleagues at Forbes.

The market for virtual goods in Counter-Strike 2 reached a record $4.3 billion, Playdead’s co-founder threatened another co-founder of the studio with a lawsuit over a LinkedIn image, and the online presence of Split Fiction on Steam exceeded 259,000 people. Here’s a recap of the major events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

The cooperative novelty Split Fiction has attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam. Based on this metric, it has already become the largest release from Hazelight Studios and the second most successful game published by Electronic Arts (EA).

The Canadian law firm Voyer Law has studied over a hundred publishing contracts that indie game developers have signed for consoles and PCs. They shared their insights into what conditions are typically included in such agreements on a specially created website.

A Brazilian court has ordered Apple to allow apps outside the App Store on iOS within the country, mirroring a decision previously implemented in the European Union. The corporation has three months to comply with this mandate.

VK announced that the RuStore app store has reached an important milestone. Since its launch in May 2022, it has been downloaded over 100 million times.

On March 6, 2025, the release of the new cooperative adventure by Hazelight Studios — Split Fiction — took place on PC and consoles. Everything is going great for the game on Steam. It launched with an “overwhelmingly positive” rating, garnering 97% positive reviews.

The UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) reported on the state of the gaming market in the country last year. Here are the key points from the report.

Another group of Russian indie developers has shared their successes. The Yekaterinburg-based teams Chudo-Yudo Games and Targem Games announced that as of today, their action game with RTS and survival elements, Machine Mind, has surpassed 60,000 wishlists on Steam.

The Russian indie team SBSR proudly announced that Steam users are actively adding “Zarya” — a rural driving simulator — to their wishlists. Recently, the game surpassed the milestone of 100,000 wishlists.

The authorities in the province of British Columbia, Canada have decided to increase the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit (IDMTC) for so-called “interactive digital media.” Among those eligible for the benefit are game developers.

On February 27, one of the largest cities in the Balkans hosted a networking event for participants in the gaming industry, WN Connect Belgrade. Here are the highlights.

Ksenia Pirogova, Head of the Learning and Development Department at Nexters, shared a case study on handling training requests within the company in her column for App2Top.

The studio Ballistic Moon, which developed the remake of Until Dawn, is “effectively closed,” according to sources from Insider Gaming. The portal reports that there is almost no staff left in the company.