Wrapping up the week with a comprehensive piece on the most successful game releases over the past six months. Today, we will discuss the best-selling new releases, sales leaders, and the top indie games on PC and consoles. If a particular title didn’t get its own section, you’ll likely find it on one of the many charts featured.

A temporary manager has been appointed for the “Lesta Games” group of companies. According to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it is JSC “IT Technologies,” which was established quite recently—on July 1, 2025.

Sultan’s Game is a card-based RPG inspired by the tales from “One Thousand and One Nights.” In just three and a half months since its release, it has been purchased over a million times worldwide.

Since the beginning of the year, CD PROJEKT’s shares have increased by 37%, Bloomberg noted. According to analysts interviewed by the publication, investor sentiment toward the Polish company has improved due to the hype around the next installment of The Witcher.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.