The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński.

Together with top managers and experts from the gaming industry, as well as related fields, we continue to summarize the results of 2025. Up next is a conversation with Natalie Yurkova, Managing Partner at i-Legal, Maria Ordovskaya-Tanaevskaya, CEO, and the lawyer Alina Tankova.

There’s just a little time left until the New Year, but that doesn’t stop us from continuing to summarize the year with gaming industry experts. This time, we have Alexander Kirov, the Director of Development at “Pikabu,” in the spotlight.

We continue to review the outcomes of 2025 with experts from the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Kirill and Roman Gurskiy, managing directors of the gaming division of the investment group GEM Capital.

On November 26, the full release of the MMORPG Reign of Guilds by the St. Petersburg team Atlant Games took place. The App2Top team spoke with the developers about the journey to release and the intricacies of creating old-school online projects.

The mobile tank shooter reached this milestone in just over three years: Lesta Games launched it in Russia and Belarus in October 2022.

Continuing to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming (or related to the gaming industry) teams. Up next is an interview with Vasily Ovchinnikov, the head of the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI).

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.