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News November 13, 2025

Valorant Mobile and Dying Light: The Beast helped Tencent increase its quarterly gaming revenue

The parade of financial reports continues. Next in line is the Tencent report for the third quarter of 2025, ending on September 30.
News November 13, 2025

The Cocos engine was purchased for $72 million

Now it belongs to the Chinese company SUD, which is developing a cloud platform for app gamification.
News November 13, 2025

Weak sales of new releases and an overall decline in revenue are the main highlights from Embracer Group’s report

Embracer Group reported for June-September 2025. This is likely the last or one of the last financial reports before the final division of the holding into three public companies.
News November 13, 2025

The authors of Dispatch aim to achieve a three-year sales plan within three months

The interactive animated series Dispatch from Telltale veterans is selling much faster than its creators anticipated. Co-founders of AdHoc Studio, Nick Herman and Michael Choung, discussed this in an interview with the portal GamesIndustry.
News November 13, 2025

Rockstar Games is being sued over dismissals

The British union, Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), has filed a lawsuit against Rockstar Games. The reason for this is the dismissal of several dozen developers in early November—believing that the studio acted unlawfully.
News November 12, 2025

Some developers of the extraction shooter Exoborne will be laid off

The Sharkmob studio is preparing to conduct layoffs at its division in Malmö. It announced this in a statement to the GamesIndustry portal.
Premium Industry November 12, 2025

Why is NetEase massively divesting from Western assets and what does it mean in the context of the Chinese market

Just in the past few weeks, NetEase has cut funding for three Western studios. We explore what compels the company to reconsider its investments, what ties the affected teams together, and how applicable this trend is to other Chinese publishers.
News November 12, 2025

The restaurant earned half a million dollars in less than a week

The game has already recouped its development costs.
News November 12, 2025

In Russia, they ultimately won’t implement a GOST standard for video games

Rosstandart has denied the claims about plans to develop a national standard with criteria for video game classification. Such reports emerged in mid-October.
News November 12, 2025

Andrew Wilson will receive over $100 million following the sale of EA. UPDATE: that’s not exactly the case

The report by Electronic Arts (EA) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shed light on the payouts due to its executives as a result of the upcoming sale of the company. For instance, it was revealed that CEO Andrew Wilson will receive a rather substantial sum.
News November 12, 2025

Deconstruction of Fun: a total of around $150 million was spent on Squad Busters. And this amount was not recouped by Supercell

On October 30, Supercell announced the closure of the project Squad Busters after two years of operation. This is the first title the company decided to “kill” after a global release. Mobile industry veteran Michail Katkoff, in his blog Deconstruction of Fun, estimated how much the Finnish hit factory’s recent failure might have cost.
Investor/publisher wanted November 12, 2025

A team of enthusiasts is looking for 3D specialists and an investor to implement a project inspired by “At the Mountains of Madness” by H.P. Lovecraft

New post in the “Looking for Investor/Publisher” section. This time it’s dedicated to a horror game in the spirit of Amnesia, crafted by a team of enthusiasts. It’s called Aeon of Madness.
News November 12, 2025

The creators of Stellar Blade more than doubled their quarterly profit

The South Korean studio Shift Up has published its financial report for the third quarter of 2025, which spanned from July to September. Compared to 2024, all its key metrics have increased.
News November 11, 2025

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II returned to Steam’s top 10 chart thanks to a free weekend

Let’s talk about the situation in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam for the week from November 4 to November 11.
Industry November 11, 2025

Brand Collaborations: Why Businesses are Massively Venturing into Game Development

Kirill Mukhanov, co-founder of the gaming studio BlackHub Games, in a recent interview with RBC, highlighted the key reasons for the growing interest of brands in gaming collaborations and shared a successful case study. In an article for App2Top based on the interview, he elaborated in detail on what drives this trend and how to maximize its benefits.
News November 11, 2025

The US court is currently not satisfied with the settlement agreement between Google and Epic Games

Last week, Google and Epic Games submitted their proposed settlement to the California court. However, they were unable to secure a swift approval of the deal, as the presiding judge, James Donato, expressed doubts about its merits.
News November 11, 2025

ARC Raiders demonstrated the best release sales in Nexon’s history

Since its release on October 30, the shooter has sold 4 million copies, according to Nexon’s financial report for the third quarter of 2025.
News November 11, 2025

Sales of Ghost of Yōtei reached 3.3 million copies

This was reported by Sony as part of their latest financial report.
News November 11, 2025

Sony wrote off $204 million due to the impairment of Bungie’s assets and other details from the company’s quarterly report

On September 30, Sony concluded the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, releasing a report of the results. Below are the main indicators from the company’s gaming division, which suggest that Bungie is facing some difficulties.
News November 10, 2025

The budget for 80% of games released on Steam since 2022 does not exceed one million dollars — analytics

Developers rarely publicly disclose the budget for their games. The lack of official data prompted the analytical portal HushCrasher to try to estimate the cost of creating games distributed on Steam.
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