The bus repair simulator by Cyprus-based Polden Publishing managed to recoup its development costs within the first two days of sales.

Here’s a brief overview of the main topics over the weekend: the THQ Nordic presentation, the million sales of A Game About Digging A Hole, and the price increase of old Switch models in the US.

A dedicated landing page has been launched on the WN Hub platform for Russia’s first business publication about the video game industry — the “Gaming Industry” Almanac. The inaugural issue was prepared with the participation of the BlackHub Games team.

At the end of July, Sony filed a lawsuit against Tencent, accusing the Chinese company of copyright infringement. We have reconstructed the timeline of events and thoroughly examined the essence of the claims. To navigate the legal intricacies, we were assisted by specialists from Denuo and REVERA.

The game’s achievement was announced by Atlus on social media.

The Turkish mobile publisher and developer Good Job Games has received investments for the second time in six months. The company has now announced that it has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round.

The first half of 2025 was the most profitable period for cooperative mode games on Steam, according to analysts from Alinea Analytics. These projects earned a total of $4.1 billion during this time—an 11% increase compared to the previous year.

Malik Khatazhaev, who until recently owned the “Lesta Games” group of companies, has received a new lawsuit from the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office. The complaint was filed on July 28 in the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow.

The location and time for the new meetup under the “Game Industry” brand have been announced. It will take place in the Russian capital in just two weeks.

Nintendo reported results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended for them on June 30, 2025. The Japanese company boasted that the Nintendo Switch 2 significantly boosted their revenues.

Google Corporation failed to overturn a court decision in its dispute with Epic Games. Its appeal in the case regarding its monopoly on the Android app market was rejected once again.

The gaming group “Lesta Games” is interested in the adventure action game “War of the Worlds: Siberia,” according to sources from the newspaper “Kommersant.” They report that the company is preparing to contact 1C Games Studios in the near future with an offer to purchase the game.

The circulation of the turn-based RPG Sea of Stars has significantly exceeded the most optimistic forecasts of the developers from Sabotage Studio. The game director, Thierry Boulanger, in a conversation with Game Informer, stated that their goal was surpassed by approximately seven times.

The second quarter of 2025, spanning from April 1 to June 31, was extremely successful for Roblox. The platform reported that its metrics improved due to the “emergence of several viral projects.”

The column on orchestrating a synchronized ad campaign on YouTube and Twitch was shared with App2Top by Ekaterina Chemerovskaya, team lead of the Famesters agency.

At the beginning of the month, the retail network M.Video-Eldorado reported on console sales in Russia for January-March 2025. A few weeks later, it summed up the results for the entire first half of the year.

Rumors have been confirmed that Boris Dobrodeev will take over management of the Lesta Games group of companies. The former head of VK announced his leadership status in a comment to the RBC newspaper.

The Steam team continues to update its digital store. This time, they announced a major overhaul of the trailer player on game pages, enhancing its reliability and redesigning its interface.

This was reported by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the presentation of the annual financial report.