People Can Fly has put the development of two more games on “pause” and announced layoffs, the success of R.E.P.O. allowed the studio that created it to survive, Candy Crush Solitaire has performed better than expected by King — here are the main gaming industry events from the past weekend.

In early May, it became known that Epic Games won against Apple in the US appellate court: the corporation was prohibited from charging commissions on payments made outside the App Store. Analyst Joost van Dreunen believes that Apple may now be considering a number of strategies to mitigate the damage. One such strategy is acquiring Unity.

FromSoftware announced the initial achievement of Elden Ring Nightreign. By the end of the first day of release, the cooperative novelty sold 2 million copies worldwide.

There are various models for segmenting the gaming industry. One of the simplest yet most unique belongs to a former Nexon executive. Let’s examine it in detail and discuss how publishers and investors often misjudge their resources and expertise.

The studio Mundfish is known for the retro-futuristic shooter Atomic Heart. Recently, it decided to step beyond its own development and started helping other teams with their game creations.

Scopely announced the completion of its deal with the creators of Pokémon GO. As of May 29, 2025, the now-former gaming division of Niantic officially becomes part of Scopely.

On the night of May 30th, the release of Elden Ring Nightreign — a cooperative spin-off of Elden Ring — took place on PC and consoles. The game quickly became very popular on Steam. Within a few hours, its online user count on Valve’s platform peaked at 313,593 players.

Atomic Heart has surpassed 10 million players worldwide, reports the studio Mundfish. It took just over two years to reach this milestone: the release of the retro-futuristic shooter occurred on February 21, 2023.

Last week marked two months since the release of the decorator simulator Urban Jungle by developers from Yakutia. To commemorate this, the game designer Künnei Vinokurova disclosed a series of figures.

On the topic of what indie is, how many game developers there are in Russia, and what their main problem is, the editorial team of App2Top spoke with the co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony, the head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, and author of the Telegram channel “Weary Publishing” Danila Kamenev.

Game developers and publishers can create so-called homepages on Steam — personalized showcases featuring their titles, the latest news, and other important information. To make it easier and more efficient for teams to work with such pages, Valve has released a small update.

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.