We continue to summarize the year 2025 with gaming (or game industry-related) teams. Up next is an interview with Alexander Ivanov, CEO of Duckside Games studio.

The last publication in the retiring year of 2025.

On the eve of the year’s main celebration, we continue to review the outcomes of 2025 with experts from the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Sasha Goodwin, the founder of Goodwin Games.

We continue to sum up the results of 2025 with experts in the gaming market. Next on the list is an interview with Vasily Maguryan, CEO of the investment company “Gaming Holding.”

We continue to wrap up 2025 with experts in the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Marina Lopatina, Business Development Director of the recruitment agency WN Talents.

The Steam team has published lists of the most successful games on the platform for 2025.

The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński.

We continue summing up the results of 2025 with top managers and experts from the gaming industry, as well as those closely related to it. Next up is a conversation with the managing partner of i-Legal Natalia Yurkova, CEO Maria Ordovskaya-Tanaevskaya, and head of the digital law and TMT practice Alina Tankova.

There’s just a little time left until the New Year, but that doesn’t stop us from continuing to summarize the year with gaming industry experts. This time, we have Alexander Kirov, the Director of Development at “Pikabu,” in the spotlight.

We continue to review the outcomes of 2025 with experts from the gaming industry. Next up is an interview with Kirill and Roman Gurskiy, managing directors of the gaming division of the investment group GEM Capital.

On November 26, the full release of the MMORPG Reign of Guilds by the St. Petersburg team Atlant Games took place. The App2Top team spoke with the developers about the journey to release and the intricacies of creating old-school online projects.

The mobile tank shooter reached this milestone in just over three years: Lesta Games launched it in Russia and Belarus in October 2022.

Continuing to summarize the results of 2025 with gaming (or related to the gaming industry) teams. Up next is an interview with Vasily Ovchinnikov, the head of the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI).

Recall, the “Video Game Factory” is an accelerator that launched in the summer of 2024 with the support of the Agency of Creative Industries (ACI). It assists budding developers with game creation and pitching to publishers and investors.

We’ve prepared a detailed list of games from Russian or formerly Russian teams whose projects have made noteworthy box office returns on Steam this year. The list turned out to be substantial. As a bonus, we also included a list of those in pursuit.

The company “M.Video” has also summarized the results of the outgoing year 2025. It listed the console games whose physical editions brought in the most money from sales in its stores from January to December.

In September, the Ministry of Finance of Mexico proposed introducing an 8% tax on games containing “violent” content. Three months later, this idea was abandoned.

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation’s Commission on Volunteering and Youth Policy surveyed Russians on the topic of video games. It shared preliminary results of the study during a discussion held on December 25.

Compared to last year, there was an over 30% growth in monetary terms, and a 50% increase in units sold.