After being delayed twice, the global release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows finally took place. The game marks not only the return of the franchise but also Ubisoft’s departure from a whole series of its usual practices.

Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana shared a monthly report on the state of the gaming market in the U.S. Despite a wealth of new releases, overall revenue continues to decline.

On March 18, mo.co, a new action RPG from Supercell, was released on mobile devices. This marks the seventh game by the Finnish company to reach a global launch. However, this time the company adopted a new strategy for launching its projects, choosing a different approach.

Matt Lewis, Vice President of Product at Activision’s mobile division, shared insights about the launch of Call of Duty: Mobile and the lessons the company learned from this experience.

Media views and mentions are meaningless if not supported by numbers from Steam. This observation was recently shared on LinkedIn by Artem Shcherbakov, the founder of ROAR Games.

For its presentation at GDC 2025, the analytics firm Newzoo prepared an overview of the state of the gaming industry. Below are key insights about the PC market.

The phenomenal commercial success of just a few gaming studios has provided a powerful boost to the entire Turkish gaming industry.

Microsoft has shared updated data on ID@Xbox. Since the program’s inception, the company has paid indie developers a total of over $5 billion.

In less than a month, the capital of Serbia will host a summit for game developers and publishers dedicated to the operation and support of video games. Speakers will include representatives from MY.GAMES, PLAYSTUDIOS, Playkot, and Nexters.

Thanks to the spring sale, many old hits have predictably returned to the top of Steam’s best-selling games. However, the top five remain almost unchanged.

The consolidation in the gaming analytics market continues. Sensor Tower has announced the acquisition of the Video Game Insights (VG Insights) platform.

Layoffs continue among the developers of Payday. It has been reported that Starbreeze has finally decided to eliminate its French division.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. Up next, we have a piece on IamGraf, a rogue-like strategy game about managing a county.

Indie studio Pocketpair shared how the global success of Palworld unfolded at the GDC 2025 developer conference.

The Discord team has announced the release of the Discord Social SDK. With this tool, developers can integrate some chat service features directly into games.

The Polish studio The Farm 51 has announced layoffs. It decided to reduce its staff following the weak debut of the action RPG Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone.

On February 26, the Swedish indie studio semiwork released their new game, a cooperative horror titled R.E.P.O., in early access on Steam. According to analytics services, it has become a major hit.

Samsung has decided to reduce the commission in its Galaxy Store mobile app store. It announced that starting May 15, 2025, the commission rate for apps, games, and in-app purchases will be 20% instead of the current 30%.

The former head of Activision Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Kotaku and Gizmodo, Steam’s peak online users have exceeded 41 million, and People Can Fly will no longer publish VR games. Here’s a roundup of the key events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.