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.”
News February 16 The main events from the weekend (February 14-15) Saddening news from SEGA, more layoffs in Sweden, and a few figures about the classic Diablo 3.
News February 13 RVI will develop a ten-year plan for the advancement of Russian game development The Video Game Development Industry Organization (VGIO) has announced a new initiative. It aims to develop a document outlining a “comprehensive strategy” to support game development in Russia until 2036.
News February 13 In 2025, Beeline paid game developers 62% more than the previous year In the Beeline mobile app and on the operator’s website, there is a dedicated section for mobile and web games. It is simply titled “Games.” Representatives of the company shared the results of this section for the year 2025 with App2Top.
News February 13 Media: The creators of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang will be sold to a Saudi company for $6-7 billion The deal might be finalized by the end of March, sources from Reuters claim.
News February 13 The demand for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check exceeded the expectations of Devolver Digital The company that published the game announced this in an investor note.
News February 13 Ubisoft Report: Rise in PC Sales and the Success of Assassin’s Creed Ubisoft published a report for the third quarter of its current fiscal year, covering the period from October 1 to December 31, 2025. Here are the highlights from the document.