Recall, the “Video Game Factory” is an accelerator that launched in the summer of 2024 with the support of the Agency of Creative Industries (ACI). It assists budding developers with game creation and pitching to publishers and investors.

We’ve prepared a detailed list of games from Russian or formerly Russian teams whose projects have made noteworthy box office returns on Steam this year. The list turned out to be substantial. As a bonus, we also included a list of those in pursuit.

The company “M.Video” has also summarized the results of the outgoing year 2025. It listed the console games whose physical editions brought in the most money from sales in its stores from January to December.

In September, the Ministry of Finance of Mexico proposed introducing an 8% tax on games containing “violent” content. Three months later, this idea was abandoned.

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation’s Commission on Volunteering and Youth Policy surveyed Russians on the topic of video games. It shared preliminary results of the study during a discussion held on December 25.

Compared to last year, there was an over 30% growth in monetary terms, and a 50% increase in units sold.

Developers from Spike Chunsoft announced that this achievement took just over 15 years: the first installment of the series, entitled Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, was released in November 2010.

In South Korea, the so-called loot box law has been in effect for over a year. It mandates developers to disclose the odds of obtaining valuable in-game items from loot boxes. Recently, a group of Korean parliamentarians has drafted a proposal to toughen the penalties for violating this law.

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with teams within or linked to the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Daniil Vostorgov, Product Owner at AppMetrica.

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with the CEO of the studio “Siberia Nova“, Sergey Russkikh.

While the West is celebrating Christmas, we continue to publish the 2025 year-end results with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Egor Tomsky, the head of the studio WATT.

The game reached this milestone a week after its announcement.

It will start appearing not only at the top of the search results page but also at the bottom.

Dissatisfaction with Square Enix’s work does not prevent the 3D Investment Partners fund from continuing to purchase shares of the Japanese company. Recently, they increased their stake from 14.36% to 16.48%.

Analyzing the situation in the domestic digital PC distribution market: the main players, their approaches to monetization and user engagement, as well as the challenges they face in competing with the global platform monopoly.

The majority of the amount was generated by the company over the past three months.

Now it ranks at 610th place on the list of the most anticipated games on the platform.

MTS arrived at this conclusion after analyzing the gaming payments of users on the “MTS Payment” service.

The gaming industry is seeing an increasing number of unions. Now, the Canadian studio Ubisoft Halifax has announced the formation of a labor union.