News February 20 Scopely announced the acquisition of the Turkish studio Loom Games, valuing its business at one billion dollars Saudi Arabia’s Savvy Games Group is expanding. While some companies continue to offload assets, the creators of Monopoly Go! are making substantial investments.
News February 19 Sony is closing Bluepoint Games. The creators of the Demon’s Souls remake will find themselves out of work As reported by Bloomberg, Sony Group Corporation has decided to shut down its division that previously focused on creating remakes and remasters of iconic PlayStation titles.
News February 19 “Bright, cheerful friend-slopes are a big niche,” says Kirill Oreshkin on what is popular on Steam Amid the rapid growth of wishlists for Totally Secure Airport, the project’s publisher shared their vision of current trends.
News February 19 “Let’s normalize game release delays,” suggested the creator of DayZ Dean Hall, the creator of the iconic DayZ and currently working on the survival game Icarus, stated during a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session that players have the power to change the attitude toward game delays.
News February 19 Valve won a case against a patent troll, requiring him to personally pay $152,000 A lengthy legal battle recently concluded between Valve and serial patent troll Leigh Rothschild. It’s a classic case of “greed doesn’t pay.”
News February 19 The maintainers of Godot were overwhelmed with spam code change proposals generated by neural networks Open-source Godot developers are exhausted and demoralized by numerous low-quality pull requests. Non-functional requests, generated by various LLMs, are being submitted for review more and more frequently.
News February 19 Producer Beholder is creating an extraction game about the battles of Star Wrath starfighters — a new game within the walls of Gaijin Entertainment and Targem Games A new project with “Russian roots,” a massive online space-themed game featuring PvP and PvE battles, has been announced.
News February 19 Belka reported on the success of its new game — Brilliant Sort: Diamond Puzzle In recent years, the studio with Belarusian roots, Belka Games, has been actively experimenting, trying to adapt hyper-casual mechanics for IAP monetization.
News February 19 The author of the hidden object series about cats, Devcats, has become an indie publisher The Brazilian studio Devcats, known for the Full of Cats franchise, has launched a publishing division. It will assist small teams in bringing cat-themed projects to the market.
News February 18 It’s now official: 79 employees who worked at 1C Game Studios on “War of the Worlds: Siberia” have moved to the newly formed studio MGLA Information has been confirmed regarding significant changes affecting Albert Zhiltsov’s plot-based project about a Martian invasion of Tsarist Russia.
News February 18 In the first week, sales of Mewgenics exceeded one million copies This is currently the most successful release of 2026. Even the developers themselves did not anticipate such results.
News February 18 Media: Tencent was the main investor in Highguard at the early stages This information is reported by sources from Game File. However, the size of the investment is not specified.
News February 17 Mewgenics debuted at number one on the weekly Steam chart for paid games We provide insights on changes in the top 100 best-selling products on Steam for the period from February 10 to February 17.
News February 17 Since December, AppLovin’s shares have nearly halved, despite record profits Investors are concerned about the growing competition in the advertising sector.
News February 17 NetEase continues to “offload” its Western assets. The Anchor Point studio has become independent The Chinese giant is steadily scaling back its investments after several years of active expansion into the West.
News February 17 Unity AI will enable developers to create “fully-fledged casual games” based on prompts, according to the company CEO Unity has identified content creation using AI as one of the key areas of its development strategy for 2026.
News February 17 The creator of Buckshot Roulette has become a “platinum” sponsor of the Godot engine — for 36,000 euros per year Estonian indie developer Mike Klubnika now generously supports the project that helped him create his hits.
News February 17 Hasbro has implemented layoffs at Atomic Arcade studio, but the G.I. Joe game is still in development Several developers have reported layoffs at one of the internal studios of Wizards of the Coast.
News February 16 Sergey Orlovsky announced the release of Silent Storm’s source code as open source Modders have gained full “under the hood” access to the early 2000s legend.
News February 16 Media: “Plus Studio,” the production center of Yandex, will act as a co-investor in “War of the Worlds: Siberia” As reported by the publication “Kommersant,” instead of “Lesta,” the third-person action game team led by Albert Zhiltcov will now be overseen by the Russian IT giant “Yandex.”