SteamDB published the list of best-selling games for the period from February 11 to February 18.

The Moscow-based company Game Art Pioneers, which is developing the game DISTORTION, announced the departure of its founder, Dmitry Zdesev. He made this decision “due to differences in the vision of the company’s future development.”

The name is Studio 42. It plans to focus on creating casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.

Sources from insider Tom Henderson have discovered the status of the pre-sales for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. According to them, as of today, the number of pre-orders for the game has reached 300,000 copies.

Starbreeze has reported its financial results for 2024. The developers of PAYDAY announced a significant drop in revenue and substantial losses, while their income from publishing games by third-party studios significantly increased.

Chinese gamers have sharply reacted to the upcoming expansion for Hearts of Iron IV titled Graveyard of Empires. They’ve decided to take out their dissatisfaction on Paradox Interactive’s games in Steam, resulting in a flood of negative reviews.

In early February, it became known that Yandex acquired the rights to the trademarks “IgroMir” and Comic Con Russia. Accordingly, App2Top spoke with a representative of the corporation about the reasons for this deal and why they didn’t buy KRI.

Liquid Swords is a Swedish studio founded in 2020 by Avalanche Studios co-founder and Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg. Recently, the studio has begun layoffs.

The multiplayer mech-action game War Robots has joined the “unicorn games” club. MY.GAMES announced that over 11 years of operation, the title has earned a billion dollars across all platforms.

Three years ago, miHoYo began actively pursuing leakers of Genshin Impact and its other games. The company announced that since then, it has taken action against more than 200 individuals who leaked information online.

Last year, 441 video game crowdfunding campaigns were successfully completed on Kickstarter. This is the highest figure in the history of the platform, according to the official Kickstarter blog.

The gaming market won’t return to the revenue growth rates seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research company MIDiA Research. The company believes the “era of double-digit growth” is over.

Epic Games Store summarized 2024, France saw its first nationwide game developers strike, and the media discovered that the creators of Love and Deepspace and Infinity Nikki earned $850 million in 2024. We recap the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.

A Reddit guide has been released. It was published by Daniil Kamenev, the co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony, on his Telegram channel “Tired Publishing“.

The African gaming market is growing six times faster than the global average, according to findings from Carry1st and Newzoo. Last year, its revenue reached $1.8 billion, reflecting a growth of 12.4%.

Just under a month ago, Dynasty Warriors: Origins was released on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series. Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force announced that the new title has already sold over one million copies worldwide.

A new development in the conflict between Ironmace Studios and Nexon over Dark and Darker. In South Korea, the court found the game creators guilty of violating Nexon’s trade secrets and ordered them to pay substantial compensation.

The game with a telling title, A Game About Digging A Hole, has become a hit. Indie publisher rokaplay Bou·tique announced that it has been purchased over 250,000 times.

The third fiscal quarter ending on December 31, 2024, was not particularly successful for Ubisoft. The French company reported a decline in all key metrics. Nevertheless, it is satisfied with the pre-order volume of Assassin’s Creed Shadows.