The low price of Hollow Knight: Silksong has caused concern among indie developers, SEGA veterans discussed crunch time in the company during the 1990s and 2000s, and the daily active audience for Grow a Garden has reached 60 million people — a brief summary of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Hollow Knight: Silksong can already be considered one of the major game releases of 2025. In today’s piece, we provide a detailed analysis of the game’s launch from various metric perspectives and compare it to other Metroidvanias and titles in different genres.

We continue to share videos of presentations from the St. Petersburg session of the “Games Industry” Conference (CII), which took place in July. Today’s focus is on a presentation by Daniil Kolesnikov, a business development manager at HeroCraft. He spoke on the topic “Early Access Mistakes Illustrated by HeroCraft Games.”

On August 20, 2025, the Chinese action game Black Myth: Wukong finally arrived on Xbox consoles — exactly one year after its release on PC and PlayStation. Rickard Linder, head of the analytics company Alinea Analytics, mentioned on LinkedIn that the launch went by without much fanfare.

According to Nigel Lowrie, co-founder of Devolver Digital, the upcoming GTA VI might become the first AAAAA game. He shared his vision during a conversation with IGN.

Firaxis Games has lost part of its staff. The layoffs were first reported on social media by the affected developers themselves, and later confirmed by 2K Games—the studio’s parent company.

As Konami announced in an official press release, the game surpassed this milestone on the day of release — August 28, 2025.

On the evening of September 4, 2025, the highly anticipated Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong was released on PC and consoles. The new release from Team Cherry created significant excitement.

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.