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Newzoo: Assassin’s Creed Shadows became the second highest-grossing game in March, surpassing Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction

The analytics company Newzoo has named the top-grossing and most popular games on PC and consoles for March 2025.

The founder of the studio that developed Stellar Blade entered the top 50 richest Koreans for the first time

Forbes published an April 2025 update of the richest residents in South Korea. Kim Hyung-tae (Kim Hyung-tae), the founder of Shift Up, known for the hit games Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke, made it to 46th place on the list.

The Unity 6 engine is no longer distributed in China, but there are nuances

In February 2025, Chinese developers began reporting issues accessing Unity 6. It was recently revealed that the company behind the engine had indeed withdrawn it from sale in China.

Media: Korean gaming companies are massively shedding non-core assets

KRAFTON, Nexon, and several other gaming companies from South Korea have undertaken business optimization, reports ChosunBiz. It is suggested that they have decided to focus more directly on games amid challenging market conditions.

A record year and nearly fivefold growth in revenue from new games — PulluP Entertainment report

PulluP Entertainment has also released its annual financial report. The parent company of the publisher Focus Entertainment Publishing disclosed the results for the period from April 2024 to March 2025.

Sales of Dwarf Fortress on Steam have exceeded one million copies

The publisher Kitfox Games has announced that the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress has sold over a million copies. The game reached this milestone approximately two and a half years after its release on the platform: Dwarf Fortress was released in Valve’s store on December 6, 2022.

Revenue increased by 169%, with nearly 600,000 copies of Frostpunk 2 sold — and other highlights from the annual report of 11 bit studios

In 2024, 11 bit studios achieved the highest revenue in its history, according to the latest financial report from the Polish company. The record is largely attributed to Frostpunk 2.

The online launch of RuneScape: Dragonwilds on Steam surpassed 40,000 players

On April 15, Jagex released RuneScape: Dragonwilds on Steam as an early access title. This cooperative survival game is set in the universe of the iconic MMORPG RuneScape. Judging by the initial numbers, the game has had a successful launch.

Study: 19% of young Japanese have spent almost all their money on in-game purchases at least once

The company SMBC Consumer Finance surveyed a thousand Japanese people aged 20-29 about their spending in various areas. It turned out that Japanese youth actively make in-game purchases and sometimes spend much more money than advisable.

Arcade idle games have brought SayGames over $300 million

SayGames has revealed the total revenue from the idle arcade games it has published. The company announced that as of today, such games have collectively generated $300 million.

Devolver Digital Annual Report: Revenues are growing, Cult of the Lamb is still successful, and the number of games in the portfolio has exceeded 130

Indie publisher Devolver Digital summarized the achievements of the past year. The company reported revenue growth, disclosed the earnings of Cult of the Lamb and some other games, and shared its future plans.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has returned to the top 10 of the weekly Steam sales chart

During the week of April 8 to 15, the leaders in the chart of top-grossing products on Steam were once again Counter-Strike 2 and Schedule I. However, almost the entire rest of the top ten experienced changes.

Revenue dropped by 22%, but losses were reduced by more than threefold — key points from tinyBuild’s annual report

TinyBuild reported its financial results for 2024. Below are the key points from the financial report.

The downloads of the Tanks Blitz version for RuStore have surpassed the one million mark

The “Lesta Games” group of companies has shared new achievements of Tanks Blitz. They announced that users have downloaded the game over one million times from RuStore.

Every day, 12 million people play Delta Force

The popularity of Delta Force continues to gain momentum. Team Jade announced that the daily active users (DAU) of the free-to-play shooter now reach 12 million people.

The studio behind the parkour simulator Supermoves shut down following the game’s failure

The Finnish indie studio Makea Games has ceased to exist after three years of operation. It decided to close its doors due to the low popularity of its debut game, Supermoves: World of Parkour.

A free giveaway helped Metro 2033 Redux set a new online record on Steam

On the evening of April 14th, 4A Games studio and publisher Deep Silver launched a free distribution of Metro 2033 Redux on Steam, GOG, and Xbox in honor of the series’ 15th anniversary. As a result, the shooter’s online play reached a new record, at least on Steam.

In the first quarter of 2025, the volume of gaming deals reached $12.1 billion

The consulting company Aream & Co. analyzed the gaming deals market from January to March 2025. In its report, it used data from InvestGame.

China will continue issuing licenses for games from the US, but the tariffs have “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”

It seems that the Chinese authorities do not intend to freeze the issuance of licenses for publishing games from American companies in the country in response to the tariff increase in the US. However, sales of such games in China could still suffer due to a boycott by Chinese citizens offended by the trade war.

Weekend Highlights (April 12-13)

Astrum Entertainment surveyed Russian gamers about their gaming preferences, consoles were not included in the exemption from new tariffs on electronics in the US, two published games by Owlcat Games were added to wishlists more than 100,000 times—here’s a roundup of the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

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