The leader in the Steam top-grossing games chart for the week of September 2 to September 9 was unquestionably Hollow Knight: Silksong. It secured the number one spot both in the top for paid games only and in the overall ranking.

PixelAnt Games, which participated in the development of Mortal Kombat 1, Still Wakes The Deep, and numerous other games, has become an independent studio. It had been part of the British holding company Sumo Group since the summer of 2021.

The analytics company Newzoo has released a forecast for the global video game market in 2025. Here are the key points:

A new venture fund focusing on games and media franchises will also be established.

The release of Hollow Knight: Silksong was extremely successful, reports the analytics company Alinea Analytics. According to their estimates, over 5 million people tried the new game across all platforms in the first three days, including those on the Game Pass subscription.

This information comes from the GameDiscoverCo service.

Azur Games is entering the game analytics market. The company announced that it is opening access for third-party teams to Azur Games Analytics—its internal platform for evaluating mobile game metrics, as well as working with monetization and creatives.

At the 2025 Roblox Developer Conference, Roblox’s Senior Vice President Nick Tornow shared information about the annual revenue of the most successful developers on the platform. He refrained from naming names but disclosed the average amounts.

The low price of Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused concern among indie developers, SEGA veterans discussed crunch time in the company during the 1990s and 2000s, and the daily active audience for Grow a Garden has reached 60 million people — a brief summary of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

On August 20, 2025, the Chinese action game Black Myth: Wukong finally arrived on Xbox consoles — exactly one year after its release on PC and PlayStation. Rickard Linder, head of the analytics company Alinea Analytics, mentioned on LinkedIn that the launch went by without much fanfare.

According to Nigel Lowrie, co-founder of Devolver Digital, the upcoming GTA VI might become the first AAAAA game. He shared his vision during a conversation with IGN.

Firaxis Games has lost part of its staff. The layoffs were first reported on social media by the affected developers themselves, and later confirmed by 2K Games—the studio’s parent company.

As Konami announced in an official press release, the game surpassed this milestone on the day of release — August 28, 2025.

On the evening of September 4, 2025, the highly anticipated Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong was released on PC and consoles. The new release from Team Cherry created significant excitement.

It is possible that MindsEye might be the first and only third-party game published by IO Interactive. In an interview with IGN, the company’s CEO Hakan Abrak admitted that the future of the IOI Partners label is uncertain.

It took the game a month and a half to reach this milestone: it was released on July 21, 2025.

At the end of August, it became known that Dreamhaven, a company co-founded by Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime, is moving into a cost-saving mode. As it turns out, one of the consequences of this decision was mass layoffs.

Peter Babieno, President of Bloober Team, mentioned in an interview with PAP Biznes that the production budget for Cronos: The New Dawn was not as large as some analysts assumed.

Unfrozen Studio announced this achievement on social media.