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Results for 2025 January 13

“The market for interaction with publishers and investors has changed,” Igor Ilyukhin from Far Far Games on the results of 2025

Let’s continue wrapping up the year 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Igor Ilyukhin, the Chief Operating Officer of Far Far Games.

News January 13

Ubisoft is set to lay off another 55 employees

Layoffs will occur at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm studios.

News January 13

The court refused to reinstate the former Rockstar Games employees who were dismissed

They requested to be reinstated at work during the legal proceedings.

Results for 2025 January 13

“The goal of our growth was to stop being perceived as a one-project studio,” said Robert Bagratuni from Mundfish on the results of 2025

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Next up is an interview with Robert Bagratuni, head of Mundfish.

News January 13

Six-Fingered Heroines and AI: A Brief Look into the Controversy Surrounding the Announcement of “Endless Summer 2”

The announcement of the continuation of the visual novel “Everlasting Summer” sparked a storm of debates: gamers suspected that developers used neural networks at least in the creation of promotional materials. Here’s what happened.

Results for 2025 January 13

“We decided to tackle game development on nightmare difficulty,” said Peter Kostenko from Divovision Games about the results of 2025 year

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with game development teams. Next in line is an interview with Pyotr Kostenko, co-founder and programmer at Divovision Games.

News January 13

ARC Raiders sold 12.4 million copies

The game achieved such results in just two and a half months: the release of ARC Raiders occurred on October 30, 2025.

News January 13

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been released on Steam with “very positive” reviews and an online player count exceeding 23,000 people

Currently, Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is one of Devolver Digital’s most popular games on Steam.

Results for 2025 January 12

“We see a growing interest from major studios that either want to join Telegram on their own or are looking for partners,” said Maksim Babichev from PlayDeck about the results of 2025

We continue summarizing the results of 2025 with teams involved in gaming or the gaming industry. This time, we spoke with Maxim Babichev, the CBDO of the company PlayDeck.

News January 12

The head of Suspicious Developments advised indie studios not to rush their growth and not to spend too much time on prototypes

Tom Francis is the founder and head of the British studio Suspicious Developments, which created the games Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. In his blog, he gave some basic advice to indie teams.

Results for 2025 January 12

“We managed to overcome the downward trend in sales and increase the average transaction,” said Andrey Tyagunov from NavyField Mobile about the results of 2025

We continue to summarize the outcomes of 2025 with gaming (or related to the gaming industry) teams. Up next is an interview with Andrey Tyagunov, co-founder of NavyField Mobile.

News January 12

Schedule I and R.E.P.O were rated as the highest-rated new releases of 2025 on Steam according to Steam250

Recently, the analytical service Steam250 published a list of 250 games that were best received by Steam users in 2025. They assigned each game a score based on the number of reviews and approval rating.

Results for 2025 January 12

“We are witnessing a vibrant revival of the indie gaming industry on PC,” said Danil Kamenev from Indie GO Fund about the results of 2025.

We continue to review the results of 2025 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Danila Kamenev, Head of Publishing at Indie GO Fund.

News January 12

The peak online user count on Steam has surpassed 42 million.

The year 2026 has already marked a new online record for Steam. According to the SteamDB service, on the evening of January 11, there were 42,042,778 people on the platform simultaneously.

News January 12

Pathologic 3 was released on Steam with 79% positive reviews

On January 9, one of the early notable releases of 2026, Pathologic 3, was launched. Within just a few debut days, the Steam version of the game garnered a “mostly positive” rating.

Results for 2025 January 9

“The total number of Minetap installations has surpassed the 5 million mark,” Vyacheslav Utochkin from Geeky House on the results of 2025

We’re continuing to review the achievements of 2025 with gaming teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Vyacheslav Utochkin, co-founder and general producer of the studio Geeky House.

Results for 2025 January 9

“Archmagic Survivors Magic TD surpassed the one million dollar revenue mark even before its global launch,” said Ivan Fedyanin from Playducky on the results of 2025

Together with top managers and experts from the gaming industry, we continue to sum up the results of the year 2025. Up next is an interview with Ivan Fedyanin, co-founder of Playducky.

Results for 2025 January 9

“We have confirmed that co-op games are a strong genre: we should make as many attempts as possible in this area,” said Kirill Oreshkin from Polden Publishing about the results of 2025 year

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Next up is an interview with Kirill Oreshkin, co-founder of Polden Publishing.

Results for 2025 January 8

“Released KIBORG independently, satisfied with the results. The future belongs to self-publishing,” Dmitry Kachkov from Sobaka Studio on the outcomes of 2025

We continue to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with the director of Sobaka Studio, Dmitry Kachkov.

Results for 2025 January 8

“We’ve surpassed the milestone of 50 released titles,” Anton Vinogradov from Samustai on the results of 2025

We continue to review the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Anton Vinogradov, co-founder of the game porting and publishing studio Samustai.