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Dismissed leaders of Unknown Worlds have filed a lawsuit against KRAFTON

The situation with the resignation of the creators of Subnautica has escalated into a full-blown scandal. KRAFTON is facing a lawsuit from the fired executives of Unknown Worlds studio.

MY.GAMES and Crazybit will develop games together

MY.GAMES announced a strategic partnership with Crazybit, a recently revived Cypriot studio that developed mobile and browser games in the early 2010s. As part of this collaboration, they have established a joint venture.

The largest deals in the gaming industry in the second quarter of 2025

In a recent investment report, Aream & Co. did not list the biggest gaming deals of the first half of 2025 but did compile a list for April-June 2025.

Gaming companies made deals worth $20.3 billion in six months

Analysts from Aream & Co., based on InvestGame data, prepared a report on the state of the gaming investment market in the first half of 2025. Below are the main conclusions summarized.

The strike by SAG-AFTRA against gaming companies has finally ended

Members of SAG-AFTRA ratified an updated agreement with major game developers, including Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, and Take-Two. It went into effect “immediately.”

The median annual salary at Microsoft is 408 times less than Satya Nadella’s salary

Game File journalist Stephen Totilo examined data on Microsoft employee payouts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. He noted that CEO Satya Nadella earned hundreds of times more than others.

The game director of The Last of Us Online will open his own studio

Vinit Agarwal, the game director of the multiplayer game set in The Last of Us universe, which was canceled at the end of 2023, left Naughty Dog a few months ago. It has now become known that the developer intends to establish his own studio.

Elden Ring Nightreign was the best-selling game in the US in May, and Star Wars: Battlefront II returned to the top 20

After a slight delay, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared data on the state of the American gaming market in May.

Our research July 9

Survey: Where Will Russian-Speaking Game Developers Live in 2025?

App2Top is launching a new survey. We invite you to participate: tell us where you live and work, and what type of events interest you the most?

A studio founded by former employees of Dream Games and Good Job Games raised $7.25 million in investments

Last year, a new studio called Circle Games entered the Turkish mobile market. Recently, it successfully closed a funding round totaling $7.25 million.

Premium Analytics July 9

State of Steam as of the first half of 2025: 9,500 new releases, top tags, chart leaders, and key trends

Everything indicates that 2025 will be another record year for Steam. We decided to summarize the first six months by gathering information about games and the state of the platform as a whole. In today’s article, you’ll find many charts and data on new releases and key trends.

Block Blast — the most downloaded mobile game in the first half of 2025

Additionally, MobileGamer has listed the top mobile games of the semester in terms of downloads.

Pokémon TCG Pocket, Gossip Harbor, and Love and Deepspace ranked in the top 20 highest-grossing mobile games of the first half of 2025

The MobileGamer portal has compiled a list of the 20 mobile games with the highest net IAP revenue for January-June 2025. It used data from the AppMagic service for this analysis.

Sales of Peak reached 4.5 million copies, with Russia being the second largest market

The cooperative climbing simulator, Peak, continues to sell excellently. The milestone of surpassing 4.5 million copies sold was discussed by Aggro Crab—one of the two studios that developed the game—in a conversation with Simon Carless, the founder of GameDiscoverCo.

Ubisoft conducted layoffs at Red Storm Entertainment

Ubisoft faces layoffs once again. This time, Red Storm Entertainment, a studio renowned for creating games in the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series, is affected.

The Alters was purchased 280,000 times

The developers from 11 bit studios announced that the space survival game The Alters, which revolves around the survival of a group of clones of one person, has sold 280,000 copies. The game took just under a month to reach this milestone, as it was released on June 13.

Steam Deck and Peak continue to lead the Steam chart among paid products

The top of the chart for the most profitable products on Steam has changed little compared to the previous week. Counter-Strike 2 once again led the overall ranking, while the portable PC Steam Deck and indie hit Peak topped the paid chart.

More than 850 Neople employees held South Korea’s first-ever game developers’ strike

For the past month and a half, employees of the South Korean studio Neople — the creators of The First Berserker: Khazan — have been actively criticizing their working conditions. Their dissatisfaction has already led to a strike involving hundreds of people.

VG Insights: Russia is the third-largest market by audience size for Mecha BREAK

Russia accounts for 4% of all players of the Chinese mech shooter Mecha BREAK, according to data from the analytics service VG Insights. Although this is a relatively small number, the title is more popular only in two countries: the USA (16%) and China (37%).

Epic Games has dropped its claims against Samsung regarding the problematic installation of apps from the mobile EGS

Last fall, Epic Games accused Samsung of colluding with Google. Allegedly, the smartphone manufacturer made it more difficult to install apps from third-party sources on its devices in order to protect Google Play from competition. Almost a year later, the conflict has been resolved.

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