Kojima Productions also shared some new figures. Hideo Kojima’s studio announced that the audience for the first Death Stranding has reached 20 million people.

Capcom has updated the sales figures for Monster Hunter Wilds. It announced that since its release on February 28, the game has been purchased over 10 million times.

The drug business simulator Schedule I from the Australian indie studio TVGS has attracted a massive audience on Steam. On the evening of March 30, its peak online reached 414,166 players.

The creators of Myst studio have laid off half of their employees, Split Fiction entered the Guinness World Records three times, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has garnered over a million wishlists. Here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

On March 26, a new episode of the deconstruction show “What’s Up with the Game?” aired on the WN Academy platform, dedicated to Avowed. Here’s a recap of the highlights from the latest episode, where experts analyzed the new project from Obsidian within the Pillars of Eternity universe from the perspective of game design and narrative.

A court in India has ruled that Google Play’s billing policy violates the country’s antitrust laws. It has imposed a fine of 2.2 billion rupees ($25.7 million) on Google.

The media holding Rambler&Co and the service “Kuper” surveyed 32,700 Russians about video games. Here are some figures from the study.

PLAION (formerly Koch Media) is a subsidiary of the Embracer Group holding, which also owns Warhorse Studios, Deep Silver, Prime Matter, and several other gaming teams. The company has officially announced its decision to conduct layoffs.

The South Korean company KRAFTON has acquired another subsidiary studio. It has taken control of the Indian team Nautilus Mobile, known for the series of mobile cricket simulators Real Cricket.

On March 28, KRAFTON released the life simulator inZOI in early access on Steam. Judging by the initial feedback, gamers were pleased with the game.

Ubisoft announced the creation of a subsidiary company to which it plans to transfer some of its major franchises. Tencent has become an investor in the new organization.

Next Friday, April 4th, the spring session of the WN Conference will take place in Berlin, an event for video game developers and publishers. This article covers the program of the upcoming event.

Today, the Xbox brand is no longer associated with a single console, and the company itself is steadily shedding its role as a traditional platform holder. This strategy may be the only winning path for Microsoft Gaming. However, in its pursuit of being present on every existing screen, there is a risk of not establishing itself on any one of them.

Ubisoft announced that the audience for Assassin’s Creed Shadows has surpassed 3 million players. This number was reached within a week of the game’s release: it launched on March 20.

During the presentation at GDC 2025, Valve representatives revealed statistics on games launched in Early Access on Steam. Below are the key figures.

At the GDC 2025 developers’ conference, Valve shared some data about Steam. Specifically, it revealed that in 2024, the Chinese language overtook English as the most popular language on the platform.

Cloud Imperium Games has closed its Los Angeles office. The company announced the closure in a newsletter to users who have donated significant funds for the development of Star Citizen.

On April 16, as part of the “Gaming Industry” conference, there will be a presentation and review of games by independent developers at the Indie Pitch. Young teams will present their games to experts from the Agency of Creative Industries (ACI) and the Indie GO Fund.

Niantic is also cutting part of its workforce amid restructurings that followed the sale of Pokémon GO and its other games to mobile publisher Scopely.