Electronic Arts (EA) has lowered its forecast for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 (October-December 2024) and for the entire year. The reason was the lackluster performance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA SPORTS FC 25.

Black Myth: Wukong became one of the phenomena of 2024: just three days after its release, its sales reached 10 million copies, and within a month, they surpassed 20 million copies. The excitement surrounding it spurred investors to pay attention to other developers from China, claims gaming consultant and journalist Daniel Camilo.

The analytical company Sensor Tower has published a report on the state of the mobile app market in 2024. Below is a brief overview of the gaming segment.

Royal Match is one of the highest-grossing mobile puzzle games in the world. The analytics service AppMagic has calculated that since its release in February 2021, gamers have spent a total of $5 billion on it.

The Canadian studio Reflector Entertainment has admitted that the adventure action game Unknown 9: Awakening was a failure. The company has decided to cancel the next game in this universe and reduce its staff.

Owlcat Games has announced that sales of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader have surpassed the one-million mark. It took the game just over a year to reach this milestone; it was released on December 7, 2023, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series.

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Pyotr Tolstoy, announced that today, January 21, the first meeting of the Duma’s working group on video games took place.

Marketers Andrey Odintsov and Petr Tsap conducted a study of pricing strategies on Steam. They identified success criteria for different price categories on the platform and shared the recommended investment size for each.

Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the Origin launcher will soon be discontinued. It will be shut down on April 17.

The Russian authorities continue to work on a legislative bill aimed at regulating the video game market in the country. According to TASS, a special inter-factional working group has been formed in the State Duma to refine the bill.

For the week from January 14 to January 21, the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam was dominated by multiplayer games. The first place went to PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS — the battle royale from KRAFTON pushed the previous five-week leader, Counter-Strike 2, to the second position.

On the morning of January 21, the collectible card game Marvel Snap resumed operations in the USA after a two-day outage that occurred amid a temporary TikTok ban in the country. During this period, its developers missed out on substantial revenue.

In December 2024, RuStore was the second most popular mobile store in Russia, according to “Vedomosti” citing a Mediascope study. At that time, its monthly active users (MAU) exceeded 50 million.

The total sales of the card game Balatro across all platforms have reached 5 million copies. This announcement was made by Harvey Elliott, the CEO of the publisher Playstack, during a speech at the Pocket Gamer Connects London conference.

Soft2Bet’s Product Director Yoel Zuckerberg discussed the existing approaches to the gamification of gambling. His presentation took place at the WN iGaming Summit’24.

On January 8, 2025, the Singaporean company Habby released the second installment of the mobile blockbuster Archero. Data from the analytics service AppMagic indicates that the new release significantly outperformed its predecessor in initial metrics.

A new indie hit may appear on Steam. Solo developer The Sledding Company revealed that his multiplayer game, Sledding Game, managed to go viral and garnered 11.4 times more wishlists in a week than he expected.

Recently, the free-to-play shooter Delta Force launched the “Meteor Shower” season, which brought new content to the game. As noted by the SteamDB service, its launch significantly stimulated audience interest, leading to Delta Force’s online presence in Steam reaching record levels.

Dynasty Warriors: Origins had a strong launch on Steam, loot boxes in Genshin Impact were banned from being sold to kids in the US without parental consent, and Marvel Snap and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang became casualties of the TikTok ban in the US. Here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend.