The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to investigate the activities of AppLovin, Bloomberg sources report. It is claimed that the regulator took notice of the company after short sellers accused it of fraud.

The founder of The Outsiders, David Goldfarb, announced that the studio will soon cease to exist. It has fallen victim to the restructuring of its parent company, Funcom.

Recently, the analytical company Niko Partners published a report on the Southeast Asian gaming market*. We have highlighted the main findings.

Dmitry Filatov, head of the Narwhal game accelerator, analyzed all video game crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. He shared his observations on the Telegram channel DogDog.

Recently, Japanese House of Representatives member Satoshi Asano claimed that Nintendo is trying to persuade the country’s authorities to introduce restrictions related to the use of generative artificial intelligence. According to the company itself, this is untrue.

A critical vulnerability was found in the Unity engine, Bloomberg learned that Microsoft lost over 300 million dollars due to adding Call of Duty to Game Pass, and CloverPit sales exceeded 500,000 copies. Here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

Adjust recently released a report on the state of the mobile app market in Turkey for the first half of 2025. We’ve selected the main findings related to gaming.

At the beginning of the month, we traditionally share data on the most successful releases from the past 30 days. Today’s article includes a wealth of numbers and charts related to revenue, sales, and other metrics of September’s new releases, featuring titles from major studios, indie hits, and Japanese RPGs.

Dan Forden, who managed the sound for all the main games in the Mortal Kombat series, is no longer working at NetherRealm Studios. He announced his departure on social media.

Capcom continues to report high audience interest in the next part of Resident Evil. The company announced that Resident Evil Requiem has been added to the wishlist by 2 million people—this number accounts for wishlists on both PC and consoles.

It took Megabonk two weeks to hit the million mark.

Employees of the British branch of ZA/UM have formed a union called the ZA/UM Workers’ Alliance. This is the first officially recognized such union in a game studio in the country.

Corporate training is a powerful tool for employee development. Its effectiveness largely depends on proper organization. Alawar shared with App2Top their experience in organizing a time management training session. They discussed the challenges they faced, how they addressed them, and highlighted the risks that should be considered in such training sessions.

Starbreeze announced the cancellation of Project Baxter, a cooperative game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The company decided to write off the development costs and lay off some developers.

American gamer Ruben Valenzuela has filed a lawsuit against King and its parent company Activision Blizzard. The reason is the All Stars tournament for Candy Crush Saga — the developers allegedly create the impression among participants that their chances of winning are higher than they actually are.

Although Dune: Awakening achieved the best launch sales in Funcom’s history, it did not save its developers from layoffs. The studio announced a restructuring.

11 bit studios is one of Poland’s most renowned companies, known for producing hits like Frostpunk and publishing indie titles from third-party developers. Today, the studio finds itself at a crossroads, facing a series of financial challenges. How it arrived at this point is the focus of today’s article.

Ubisoft has officially launched Vantage Studios, its subsidiary created in collaboration with Tencent.

The game’s creators, two Italian developers from the Panik Arcade studio, announced this on its Steam page.