James Ohlen, head and one of the founders of Archetype Entertainment, a studio working on the science fiction action RPG Exodus, has decided to resign six years after launching the team.

The dispute over the plagiarism of the Horizon game series has been resolved.

The game surpassed this milestone in just under three years: it was released on February 10, 2023.

New material in the “Looking for Investor/Publisher” section. Today, we are talking about the project “Backgammon 5XL PLUS.” The project has already been launched on RuStore. The team needs funds to build a legal infrastructure and for promotion.

The company Unity has once again decided to make changes to its pricing policy, according to sources at MobileGamer. The new measure affects teams using the Enterprise license — a plan for developers with an annual revenue exceeding $25 million.

Continuing our summary of the year 2025 with teams and experts from the gaming sector (or related to it). In this edition of our year-end interview, we spoke with Alexander Shevelev, CEO of Maningame and one of the creators of the analytics service SpyMagic.

Steam has introduced a special page with personal year-end summaries for 2025. In addition to individual stats, it also displays certain general figures about the platform. For instance, you can see how users’ total gameplay time on Steam was distributed among projects from different years.

Following a good tradition, as January approaches, we summarize the past year together with representatives of gaming and related companies. Next up is a conversation with Roman Lukyanov, managing partner of the law firm Semenov&Pevzner.

On December 11, The Game Awards took place. It’s the perfect time to wrap up and look at the games that benefited the most from the show. In today’s article, you’ll find a wealth of data and charts on the sales of the winners, wishlists of announced titles, and the growth of metrics for older releases in light of new sequel trailers.

On the evening of December 16th, GFA Games released the multiplayer shooter PIONER in early access: in the “Rostelecom” store for residents of Russia and Belarus, and on Steam for residents of other countries. The game’s debut was not the best.

Brian Fleming has decided to leave Sucker Punch Productions after 28 years of service. He will pass on the role of studio head to two successors.

According to GamesIndustry, the Chinese giant has acquired a minority stake in Drama Studios. Neither the exact size of the stake nor the amount of the transaction has been publicly disclosed.

It took Baldur’s Gate 3 five years to reach this milestone: it debuted in early access in October 2020 and was officially released in August 2023.

Zoe Studios is a mobile game development studio founded last year by former members of Playtika. Recently, it secured support from eight private investors.

Traditionally, as January approaches, we sum up the results of the outgoing year together with representatives of gaming and related companies. Up next is an interview with Sergey Zanin, co-founder and CEO of Alawar.

This figure is mentioned in the report from Dambuster Studios to the British regulator. The document covers the period from April 2024 to March 2025.

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with gaming (or gaming sector-related) teams and experts. In the sixth conclusive interview, we talked with the founder and CEO of Black Snowflake, Filipp Karmanov.

A few “million more” played through the Game Pass subscription, Team Cherry announced on their blog.

The terms and conditions of the deal are not disclosed.