The publisher’s portfolio, Hooded Horse, has added another indie hit. The company announced that the roguelike kingdom-building game 9 Kings sold over 250,000 copies in its debut week.

In RuStore, the average spending on games from Russian developers in April was 750 rubles. For foreign games, it was significantly lower—about 550 rubles.

Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced the layoff of 3% of its workforce, approximately 7,000 employees. However, it turns out these reductions were not the last.

The number of copies sold for Elden Ring Nightreign has exceeded 3.5 million, reports FromSoftware. The game reached this milestone four days after its release, which took place on May 30.

The studio Echtra Games, founded by veterans of Blizzard and known for the third part of Torchlight, will cease to exist by the end of the month. Its owning company, Zynga, has decided to disband the team.

The popularity of the hit farming simulator Grow a Garden continues to rise. According to the RoMonitor Stats portal, on Saturday, May 31st, the online Roblox game reached a record high of 11.7 million concurrent users.

Another round of layoffs has occurred at Hi-Rez Studios. This time, the cuts involved the executive team.

The founder of the analytical service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, has named the best-selling new releases on Steam for May. The leader in both gross revenue and number of copies sold was Elden Ring Nightreign—despite its release occurring on the 30th.

People Can Fly has put the development of two more games on “pause” and announced layoffs, the success of R.E.P.O. allowed the studio that created it to survive, Candy Crush Solitaire has performed better than expected by King — here are the main gaming industry events from the past weekend.

In early May, it became known that Epic Games won against Apple in the US appellate court: the corporation was prohibited from charging commissions on payments made outside the App Store. Analyst Joost van Dreunen believes that Apple may now be considering a number of strategies to mitigate the damage. One such strategy is acquiring Unity.

FromSoftware announced the initial achievement of Elden Ring Nightreign. By the end of the first day of release, the cooperative novelty sold 2 million copies worldwide.

There are various models for segmenting the gaming industry. One of the simplest yet most unique belongs to a former Nexon executive. Let’s examine it in detail and discuss how publishers and investors often misjudge their resources and expertise.

The studio Mundfish is known for the retro-futuristic shooter Atomic Heart. Recently, it decided to step beyond its own development and started helping other teams with their game creations.

Scopely announced the completion of its deal with the creators of Pokémon GO. As of May 29, 2025, the now-former gaming division of Niantic officially becomes part of Scopely.

On the night of May 30th, the release of Elden Ring Nightreign — a cooperative spin-off of Elden Ring — took place on PC and consoles. The game quickly became very popular on Steam. Within a few hours, its online user count on Valve’s platform peaked at 313,593 players.

Atomic Heart has surpassed 10 million players worldwide, reports the studio Mundfish. It took just over two years to reach this milestone: the release of the retro-futuristic shooter occurred on February 21, 2023.

Last week marked two months since the release of the decorator simulator Urban Jungle by developers from Yakutia. To commemorate this, the game designer Künnei Vinokurova disclosed a series of figures.

On the topic of what indie is, how many game developers there are in Russia, and what their main problem is, the editorial team of App2Top spoke with the co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony, the head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, and author of the Telegram channel “Weary Publishing” Danila Kamenev.

Game developers and publishers can create so-called homepages on Steam — personalized showcases featuring their titles, the latest news, and other important information. To make it easier and more efficient for teams to work with such pages, Valve has released a small update.