Electronic Arts (EA) continues to downsize its staff, reports IGN, referencing an internal letter from the president of EA Entertainment, Laura Miele. The company has now closed Cliffhanger Games.

The CD PROJEKT group released its financial report for the first quarter of 2025, which spanned from January to March. It discussed revenue declines, game sales, and its pipeline.

Observing the massive surge of interest in Star Wars: Battlefront II is fascinating, even outside its context. For us, it presents an opportunity to discuss Electronic Arts’ long-term strategy, understand the company’s business priorities, and examine what games it aims to include in its portfolio.

Yesterday, Kepler Interactive boasted about the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — within 33 days, the French JRPG was purchased 3.3 million times. As it turned out, the same press release concealed new sales figures for another game published by the company — Sifu.

In April 2025, the mobile puzzle game Candy Crush Saga earned $108.25 million in net IAP revenue, according to data from AppMagic. As our colleagues from MobileGamer noticed, the service recorded a larger monthly revenue for the game only once — in October 2021, and even then, it was only $38,000 higher.

The publisher Koei Tecmo and studio Team Ninja have announced that the total sales of the Nioh series have exceeded 8 million copies. The breakdown of sales between the first Nioh and its sequel was not specified.

Amplitude Studios received significant investment. The studio announced that it secured €12 million in its latest funding round.

For the first time in history, the corporation Apple has included a game studio. This studio is the Canadian RAC7, consisting of just two people.

During the week from May 20 to May 27, there were several changes among the leaders by gross revenue in the Steam chart.

Originally, it was scheduled for today, May 27, but the Prosecutor General’s Office presented the court with new evidence. Due to this, the defense was granted a week to review it.

The studio Uncapped Games recently announced the discontinuation of its debut project— the free-to-play RTS Battle Aces, which was created with funding from Tencent.

The gaming company MY.GAMES, in honor of its sixth anniversary, released an infographic showcasing the latest key metrics of its major gaming blockbusters.

The founder and head of the indie studio Strange Scaffold, Xalavier Nelson Jr., explained why he is more drawn to games developed in two years rather than those that take five years in production.

On May 20, Google introduced a new generative model — Veo 3. Recently, an AI enthusiast tried it in creating video gameplay and shared the costs involved in producing such clips.

Square Enix has agreed to peacefully settle a dispute with the publisher Ten Tree and the studio BlackJack Studio: in March, it accused them of plagiarism and asset theft.

Several times a year, Valve hosts the Steam Next Fest, a festival of demo versions, also known as the “Play What’s Next” event. Although the event has many advantages, Hans Haave, a producer at Oro Interactive, believes that developers shouldn’t rely solely on it.

Just under a week ago, the racing simulator JDM: Japanese Drift Master was released on PC. The game launched on May 21 on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store. This amount of time was enough for it to recover a substantial portion of the development and marketing costs.

Elden Ring is one of the most successful games in recent years. The analytical company Alinea Analytics shared its statistics on the project, including sales, revenue, and audience engagement levels.

The Roblox game “Grow a Garden” attracted nearly 9 million simultaneous players, “Star Wars Battlefront II” set a new online record on Steam, and “FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time” was purchased by 500,000 people. Here’s a recap of the main events in the gaming industry from this past weekend.