WN Media Group has announced the upcoming WN C-Level Summit — a special event where owners, founders, and CEOs of gaming companies will gather. It will take place on December 11 in the largest city of the UAE.

Vizor Games has laid off some employees at its Minsk office. In a conversation with the portal dev.by, the dismissed specialists mentioned that more than two dozen people lost their jobs, primarily artists.

Tom Stone, the former Managing Director of TT Games, led the company for nearly 18 years. He recently officially launched a new studio called Second Star Games.

The decision by Electronic Arts (EA) to sell to a group of investors has concerned BioWare employees, writes the portal Insider Gaming. According to their report, the studio is anticipating massive layoffs.

SteamDB published a list of the top-grossing games on Steam for the period of September 23-30. Here are the key takeaways.

About the key features of Telegram as a gaming platform and how to build marketing within it, Evgenia Shpeit, marketing lead at PlayDeck, and Oksana Vasilyeva, project manager at StepMania, shared their insights in an article for App2Top.

This is the result of less than a year of the company’s existence: Polden Publishing officially opened in November 2024.

On September 22, Idle Pixel Fantasy was released on Steam—a small free-to-play clicker game developed solo in a month and a half by German developer Max Ritters. According to the developer, the game turned out to be far more successful than he had anticipated.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), a sovereign wealth fund from the UAE, is preparing to finalize a major video game deal, according to sources from Insider Gaming. They claim that the fund has decided to invest approximately $100 million in the development of a third-person action game set in the “Lord of the Rings” universe.

It has been confirmed that Electronic Arts (EA) will be leaving the stock market. The company will soon return to being private. App2Top discussed why EA might have made this decision with market experts Dmitri Burkovsky, Roman Safiulin, and Nikolai Shubin.

On October 16, at the Moscow conference “Game Industry”, a large-scale game exhibition will take place, alongside a presentation with project reviews — the indie pitch. Organizers are currently accepting applications from developers.

Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed rumors about the decision to go private. The company has indeed reached an agreement with a group of investors for its buyout — under the terms of the deal, the company’s valuation will be 55 billion dollars.

Konami announced that sales of Silent Hill f surpassed one million copies. The game reached this milestone on September 26th — the day after its release.

Frederik Schreiber, CEO of Slipgate Ironworks and lead developer of Tempest Rising, participated in The Hot Seat podcast. During the conversation, he touched on the topic of releasing games in early access.

Media outlets have reported on EA’s plans to become a private company again, Brazil decided to ban the sale of loot boxes in games to minors, and Hades II’s peak online players on Steam exceeded 112,000 people—here’s a recap of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Recently, the second part of the iconic WWII RTS “Blitzkrieg 2” turned 20 years old, having been released on September 23, 2005. On this occasion, the founder of Nival, Sergey Orlovsky, announced that the game’s source code is now available on GitHub.

On September 25, the full release of Hades II took place. We analyzed the game’s launch in detail from the perspectives of revenue, online performance, and other metrics, comparing them with the first installment and titles in similar genres.

Complaints have appeared on the itch.io forum, Reddit, and social media. Additionally, some developers reported payout issues in a discussion with the Rascal portal.

The studio Splash Damage is no longer owned by the Chinese giant Tencent. It has been bought out by private investors.