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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.

The developers from 11 bit studios announced that the space survival game The Alters, which revolves around the survival of a group of clones of one person, has sold 280,000 copies. The game took just under a month to reach this milestone, as it was released on June 13.

The top of the chart for the most profitable products on Steam has changed little compared to the previous week. Counter-Strike 2 once again led the overall ranking, while the portable PC Steam Deck and indie hit Peak topped the paid chart.

For the past month and a half, employees of the South Korean studio Neople — the creators of The First Berserker: Khazan — have been actively criticizing their working conditions. Their dissatisfaction has already led to a strike involving hundreds of people.

Russia accounts for 4% of all players of the Chinese mech shooter Mecha BREAK, according to data from the analytics service VG Insights. Although this is a relatively small number, the title is more popular only in two countries: the USA (16%) and China (37%).

Last fall, Epic Games accused Samsung of colluding with Google. Allegedly, the smartphone manufacturer made it more difficult to install apps from third-party sources on its devices in order to protect Google Play from competition. Almost a year later, the conflict has been resolved.

MTS has decided to venture into game development. The company announced the launch of a new division dedicated to this endeavor.

The founders of Romero Games, John and Brenda Romero, have denied rumors about the studio’s closure. They stated that while the team is indeed experiencing difficult times, they are continuing their work.

Recently, the editor-in-chief of The Game Business, Christopher Dring, mentioned that the profitability of Game Pass might be a result of skillfully juggling numbers. He suggested that Microsoft’s calculations do not include data from its internal studios. However, the corporation has since clarified that the subscription is profitable in any case.

We return once more to our publication series about games whose authors are seeking investments and publishers. Next up is a piece about the project “Frontier: Path of Shadows.” It is an isometric tactical game set in a sci-fi universe reminiscent of the series “Firefly.”

The corporation Apple has decided to appeal the €500 million fine imposed by the European Commission in April for restricting app developers in the App Store. The company has filed the corresponding appeal.

Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo compiled two lists of the most successful new games on Steam for June: based on gross revenue and the number of copies sold. The Russian strategy game Broken Arrow made it onto both lists.

The necessity of such a restriction will be discussed at the next meeting of the Russian President’s administration members with representatives of gaming companies, reports “Kommersant”.