The company Headup Games has changed ownership once again. It has now come under the wing of Reforged Studios.

The gaming division of Sony has decreased by one more studio. According to Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, the corporation has parted ways with Dark Outlaw Games, which had not managed to release any games.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced a large-scale round of layoffs.

The amount of the deal is not disclosed.

The period from May 2024 to September 2025 became the worst for the UK’s gaming industry in terms of employment. This is stated in a study by the British developers’ association TIGA.

Pearl Abyss continues to report on the success of its new game. The company boasted that it took less than a week to reach the milestone of 3 million copies sold for Crimson Desert.

The French publisher Nacon continues to face difficulties.

If it is indeed closed, about 50 people will lose their jobs.

The company has reduced the production plan for the Nintendo Switch 2 from 6 million to 4 million devices for the January-March 2026 quarter, reports Bloomberg.

The Russian mobile app store is doing well, according to VK’s financial report for last year.

It is reported that within two weeks of its release, Slay the Spire 2 has grossed over $92 million.

tinyBuild shared its financial report for the past year. In it, the company reported a significant increase in revenue.

Xbox has seen the departure of two more top managers, sales of Crimson Desert have exceeded 2 million copies, and in February, game market revenue in the United States amounted to $4.5 billion. Here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

Last week, the European rating agency PEGI announced plans to make changes to its game rating system — specifically, it will begin assigning higher ratings to titles with loot boxes. However, their American counterparts at the ESRB are not planning to do the same.

The rumors have been confirmed. ByteDance has indeed agreed to sell the Chinese gaming studio Moonton to Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group.

On the night of March 20, Crimson Desert was released—a hack-and-slash adventure game from the creators of Black Desert at the South Korean company Pearl Abyss. On Steam, the game received a mixed start.

The year 2025 turned out to be one of the best for CD PROJEKT financially. In a recent report, the company revealed that it achieved the second-largest net profit in its history — surpassed only by 2020.

The studio Trioskaz and the publisher Critical Reflex shared new achievements of the project.

The founder of WN Media Group and gaming industry veteran, Pavel Ryakhkonen, has announced work on launching an investment syndicate called GameXCap, which is focused on funding promising gaming projects.