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.

Even after the completion of restructuring within the Embracer Group, the subsidiary studios of the holding continue to lose staff. Crystal Dynamics announced its decision to downsize its workforce.

A week ago, Supercell released a new game—a mobile action RPG called mo.co. PocketGamer journalists, citing the analytics company Sensor Tower, shared the project’s early results.

The University of Innopolis attempted to find out the current state of game developers in Russia. To do this, it surveyed a hundred representatives of the domestic game development industry.

The lead game designer at Crazy Panda, Sergey Zaigraev, shared with App2Top how he uses neural networks to work on documentation.

The head of Scopely, Javier Ferreira, shared in an interview with Bloomberg that his company continues to spend significant amounts on promoting the mobile blockbuster MONOPOLY GO!. As of today, the marketing investments for the game have exceeded one billion dollars.