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.

It’s official now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.