In recent years, there’s been a noticeable trend towards cozy games: more and more projects under the “cozy” tag have been released on Steam each year. What exactly is this trend, and is it worth pursuing in game development? We discussed with Alexander Blintsov, Dmitry Muratov, and Kirill Oreshkin.

We continue to share video presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Gaming Industry” (KII) conference, which took place in July. Next up is the presentation by Andrey Belousov, co-founder of the studio Door 407, which developed Diplomacy is Not an Option. He talked about “The Experience of Working with Steam and Other Platforms Over the Last Three Years”.

It is possible that MindsEye might be the first and only third-party game published by IO Interactive. In an interview with IGN, the company’s CEO Hakan Abrak admitted that the future of the IOI Partners label is uncertain.

It took the game a month and a half to reach this milestone: it was released on July 21, 2025.

At the end of August, it became known that Dreamhaven, a company co-founded by Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime, is moving into a cost-saving mode. As it turns out, one of the consequences of this decision was mass layoffs.

Peter Babieno, President of Bloober Team, mentioned in an interview with PAP Biznes that the production budget for Cronos: The New Dawn was not as large as some analysts assumed.

Unfrozen Studio announced this achievement on social media.

We continue to share videos of presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Game Industry” conference (KII) held in July. Up next is the talk by Rostislav Fedorov, the CEO and co-founder of Dream Dock Games. He discussed “The 7 Deadly Sins of a Steam Announcement (and How to Avoid Them).”

A new studio has opened in Canada, founded by veterans of the gaming industry. It’s called HeartLoop Games.

The Battlefield 6 beta practically overshadowed all the new game releases of August. However, we will still traditionally discuss the revenue, sales, and other metrics of full releases over the past month—from the return of iconic series to a 3D fighting game that’s popular exclusively in Japan.

Leading marketer at Playstack, Shawn Cotter, and design director at Deep Field Games, Geoff Keene, discussed the release of the cooperative survival game, Abiotic Factor, with GameDiscoverCo. According to them, it met with mixed success.

We continue to showcase indie teams. Next up is Space Sauce, a team working on a cozy project about a flying letter, Origament: A Paper Adventure.

The sequel to Titan Quest was released in early access on August 1, 2025—almost two decades after the original’s release. According to former THQ Vice President of Studio Operations Richard Browne, the game could have launched much earlier, but marketers got in the way.

Two months ago, as part of widespread layoffs within its gaming division, Microsoft closed The Initiative studio and canceled its remake of Perfect Dark. According to Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, the game still had a chance to be saved — Take-Two Interactive showed interest in it.

There are only three days left to register for the three-month contest for mobile free-to-play game developers. Registration will close this Friday.

GDEV released its financial report for the second quarter of 2025, which spanned from April to June. Here’s what it revealed.

Recently, the shareholders of Thunderful Group approved the sale of 81.7% of the Swedish holding company to Atari. In an interview with GamesIndustry, Atari CEO Wade Rosen discussed why he decided to go through with this deal.

Steam has ceased to allow adult games to be released in early access, claims the studio Dammitbird. The studio encountered this restriction when attempting to release their game Heavy Hearts.

Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond is a free-to-play CCG based on the popular Japanese franchise Shadowverse. The game was released on June 17, 2025, for mobile devices and PC, and according to analysts at Sensor Tower, it has performed quite well overall.