At least when it comes to creating mobile and browser games.

The Chinese giant Tencent had long been valued higher on the stock exchange than any other company from the Middle Kingdom. However, the dynamics have changed.

The mobile action RPG about battles with monsters, mo.co, is a game with a challenging history. It was released in March 2025 and has already undergone a major relaunch. Now it faces another round of radical changes, prompted by Supercell’s unmet expectations.

The remake of the original “Gothic” has been a box office success for the studio Alkimia Interactive and the publisher THQ Nordic. As reported in a recent financial report by their parent company Embracer Group, the game is approaching break-even and is expected to become profitable soon.

Swedish holding company Embracer Group published its report for the past quarter — the first in its current fiscal year. According to the document, the company is doing quite well.

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has reported the results for April-June 2026. It announced that within three months, the iGaming segment in the country generated 39.9 billion Philippine pesos ($675 million), accounting for 45.2% of the entire market’s revenue.

The result was achieved in two weeks: the game was released on July 30, 2026.

CD PROJEKT RED has once again conducted layoffs within the team working on Project Sirius — a multiplayer game set in The Witcher universe. A total of 18 people have left the project.

Economic strategy games are not the most popular genre for discussion. However, from a perspective of future potential, the niche is almost a blue ocean—with a low number of releases and high median earnings. This is the focus of our report today.

From August 5 to 9, an action RPG with “rogue-lite” elements, Moonlighter, was available for free on Steam. As announced by Digital Sun studio, a considerable number of gamers took advantage of this offer.

Immersive simulators are not the most mainstream category of games, so their developers should not aim for the AAA niche. This is the opinion of game designer Randy Smith, who in the past contributed to various parts of the Thief series.

The mobile operator T2 reported this in its latest study.

The Swedish publisher and mobile game developer G5 Entertainment released its financial report for the second quarter of 2026. It was not a very positive period for the company, marked by a decline in revenue and mass layoffs. However, there were also some positive aspects.

Sales of the cooperative hit about disguise and hiding using paints, Meccha Chameleon, continue to gain momentum.

The Georgian iGaming studio, Aviator Studio, and the French betting operator, Betclic, are now partners. As part of the agreement, Betclic’s users have gained access to Aviator—a crash game about airplanes.

In February 2025, the Dutch consumer rights organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument filed a class action lawsuit against Sony’s gaming division. A year and a half later, the authors of Stop Killing Games — an initiative for the preservation of games — agreed to join the case.

This conclusion was reached by Alinea Analytics.

The studio behind Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the horror anthology The Dark Pictures announced upcoming layoffs. In total, Supermassive Games plans to cut up to 75 employees.

If this continues, the year 2026 will set a negative record for the number of bankruptcies.