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Итоги 2025 Today 14:29

“There is a trend towards solopreneurship in conjunction with vibecoding,” says Philip Karmanov from Black Snowflake on the main developments of 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.

News Today 12:19

Over 7 million people have purchased Hollow Knight: Silksong

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

News Today 10:25

Ubisoft acquired the Amazon Games Montreal studio

The terms and conditions of the deal are not disclosed.

News Today 09:01

The sales of the release version of Escape from Tarkov have exceeded one million copies

It’s official now.

Итоги 2025 Yesterday

“Not everyone has enough experience to correctly interpret what AI offers,” said Alexander Ptichkin from PointJS about the main takeaways for 2025.

As is traditional in the lead-up to January, we sum up the outgoing year with representatives from gaming and related companies. Next in line is an interview with Alexander Ptichkin, the creator of the Russian 2D engine PointJS.

Итоги 2025 Yesterday

“Many studios have begun to view adult games as a growth channel,” said Andrey Postnikov from Nutaku on the results of 2025

Continuing with the review of 2025 with gaming (or gaming sector-related) teams and experts. In our fourth annual interview, we spoke with Andrey Postnikov, Senior Business Developer at Nutaku.

News Yesterday

Online Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Steam saw a 231% increase thanks to TGA, a patch, and discounts

The past few days have been notable for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to an increase in online presence via Steam. Although not a record, it reached a significant level.

News Yesterday

VG Insights: In a month, Escape from Tarkov earned nearly $40 million on Steam

Exactly one month ago—on November 15, 2025—Escape from Tarkov had its full release. In light of this event, we decided to turn to VG Insights’ data to examine the extraction shooter’s performance on Steam.

News Yesterday

The international audience for Where Winds Meet surpassed 15 million people in its debut month

Developers from the Chinese studio Everstone Studio announced this achievement on social media.

News Yesterday

Half of the new releases in Steam for 2025 received fewer than 10 reviews — analytics

As the New Year approaches, the service SteamDB shared its observations about Steam. It estimated that in the partial year of 2025, a record number of games were released on the Valve platform — 19,200. However, almost half of them barely piqued anyone’s interest.

News Yesterday

The Main Highlights from the Weekend (December 13-14)

Roskomnadzor announced that it does not plan to block Call of Duty and Wolfenstein in Russia, MindsEye became the worst new release of 2025 according to Metacritic, and a union was formed at id Software—here’s a rundown of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Итоги 2025 December 12

“Now it’s more important for the user to stay, not forget their password, and, preferably, also purchase a subscription,” Dmitry Sigov from Tenjin on the results of 2025

Continuing our review of the year 2025 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. In the third retrospective interview, we spoke with Dmitry Sigov, the Customer Success Manager at Tenjin.

News December 12

In 2025, the total revenue of the gaming markets in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa will reach $89 billion, according to analysts

The analytical company Niko Partners reached this conclusion.

News December 12

After five years, Fortnite has returned to Google Play

The game was absent from the Google app store since August 2020.

News December 12

Coffee Stain Group went public with a valuation of $616 million but quickly depreciated in value

Yesterday, December 11, Coffee Stain Group officially separated from Embracer Group, becoming a public company. Its shares were listed on the Nasdaq First North exchange.

News December 12

The creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spent less than $10 million developing the game

The French studio Sandfall Interactive mentioned this amount in an interview with The New York Times.

News December 12

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was named Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025

She also emerged as the absolute triumph of the ceremony, taking home a total of nine awards—more than any other game this year.

News December 11

Tencent sold the developers of Battalion: Legacy for an undisclosed amount

Now, the studio Bulkhead Interactive is owned by a consortium of three companies: Super Media Group, Everplay Group, and Hiro Capital.

WN Academy December 11

The game about leveling up “rooster” and “panties”: dissecting the ARC Raiders phenomenon with industry experts

On December 10th, the final broadcast of the year for the deconstruction show “What about the Game?” aired on the WN Academy platform. This time, the experts discussed in detail and with quite some emotion the mechanics, design, and other aspects of one of the main hits of the fall — the extraction shooter ARC Raiders.

The revenue of the Dead Island 2 development studio exceeded $21 million over the past year

“There is a trend towards solopreneurship in conjunction with vibecoding,” says Philip Karmanov from Black Snowflake on the main developments of 2025

Over 7 million people have purchased Hollow Knight: Silksong

Ubisoft acquired the Amazon Games Montreal studio

The sales of the release version of Escape from Tarkov have exceeded one million copies

“Not everyone has enough experience to correctly interpret what AI offers,” said Alexander Ptichkin from PointJS about the main takeaways for 2025.

“Many studios have begun to view adult games as a growth channel,” said Andrey Postnikov from Nutaku on the results of 2025

Online Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Steam saw a 231% increase thanks to TGA, a patch, and discounts

VG Insights: In a month, Escape from Tarkov earned nearly $40 million on Steam

The international audience for Where Winds Meet surpassed 15 million people in its debut month

Half of the new releases in Steam for 2025 received fewer than 10 reviews — analytics

The Main Highlights from the Weekend (December 13-14)

“Now it’s more important for the user to stay, not forget their password, and, preferably, also purchase a subscription,” Dmitry Sigov from Tenjin on the results of 2025

In 2025, the total revenue of the gaming markets in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa will reach $89 billion, according to analysts

After five years, Fortnite has returned to Google Play

Coffee Stain Group went public with a valuation of $616 million but quickly depreciated in value

The creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 spent less than $10 million developing the game

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was named Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025

Tencent sold the developers of Battalion: Legacy for an undisclosed amount

The game about leveling up “rooster” and “panties”: dissecting the ARC Raiders phenomenon with industry experts