We spoke with Vitaly about how medicine, billiards, and filming a music show led him into game development. A gigantic personal interview.

The studio Blackbird Interactive has announced that the rights to the spaceship dismantling simulator Hardspace: Shipbreaker now fully belong to them. Previously, they shared these rights with the publisher Focus Entertainment.

Gamers have been anticipating the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong since 2019, and if nothing changes, it will happen by the end of this year. According to estimates by analysts from Alinea Analytics, over the long wait, more than 4.8 million Steam users have added Team Cherry’s game to their wishlists — more than any other upcoming release of 2025.

The management of AppsFlyer is planning to sell the marketing company, according to Calcalist, citing sources. The portal reports that managers are already in talks with a private investment firm, whose name has not been disclosed.

The news that the new installment of Mafia sold this number of copies was shared by VG Insights in a LinkedIn post.

For the past 20 years, AAA game prices have stayed roughly at the same level, despite a significant increase in development costs, stated former PlayStation Studios head Shawn Layden in an interview with GamesIndustry. He believes that this has been a mistake for the gaming industry.

The first half of 2025 was a good period for NetEase’s gaming division. The company reported an increase in its revenue.

A Chinese lawyer, Sun Qianhe (孙千和), believes that the player selection system in Honor of Kings operates unfairly: in his opinion, it intentionally adds weaker teammates to teams periodically to lower the win rate. He is attempting to defend his position in court against Tencent.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group, which will soon be rebranded as Fellowship Entertainment, has published its report for April-June 2025. Some key metrics came in lower than last year.

We analyzed data from over 60 public gaming companies to examine how their standings have changed since the beginning of 2025. In this special feature, we include graphs, tables, as well as numerous interesting insights and information about specific publishers and general trends across various markets.

Aaron Greenberg, the Vice President of Marketing at Xbox, shared this achievement of Grounded 2 on social media.

While the mobile gaming market stagnates, the market for non-gaming apps is growing. This is reported by analysts at Sensor Tower, who studied the situation in Google Play and the App Store from April to June 2025.

The shooter Delta Force is extremely popular in its homeland. In a recent report, Tencent boasted that in July, the number of daily active users (DAU) in the Chinese version alone exceeded 20 million.

Tencent released its financial report for the second quarter of 2025, which ended on June 30th. The company reported growth in key metrics for both the entire holding and its gaming division.

MGVC Publishing, the mobile publishing division of MY.GAMES, announced that in July, the puzzle game Fable Town earned over one million dollars in a single month for the first time.

Gamers are eagerly anticipating the new installment of Battlefield, according to data from the analytics company Alinea Analytics. Their calculations show that Battlefield 6 has already amassed over 2.7 million wishlists on Steam alone, placing the shooter in seventh place among the most wished-for upcoming releases on the platform.

A new chart of the best-selling games on Steam has been released, covering sales from the week of August 5 to August 12.

Analysts from Newzoo and Tebex have released a report on gaming expenditures of residents in North America and Europe. Below are some key findings from the report.

Epic Games announced that a court in Australia has ruled in its legal battle with Apple and Google. The court found that both corporations had abused their dominant position in the mobile store market and in the in-game payment sector to restrict competition.