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News April 4, 2025

The publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator is conducting an investigation regarding Schedule I

The company Movie Games, which published the drug dealer simulator dilogy Drug Dealer Simulator, suspects the creators of the indie hit Schedule I of infringing on its copyrights. The company has decided to investigate the game for plagiarism.
News April 4, 2025

Ubisoft’s stock price plummeted to a 12-year low following a lawsuit from investors

Ubisoft shares have declined again. On the afternoon of April 4, their value dropped to 8.86 euros per share, marking the worst result in nearly 12 years.
News April 4, 2025

Sales of the first part of “Russians vs. Lizards” exceeded 725 thousand copies in a year and a half

By the end of March 2025, the meme slasher-action game “Rusy vs Lizards” was purchased over 725,000 times. This number was shared by the developers from the Bratans studio in an interview with streamer WELOVEGAMES.
News April 4, 2025

AppLovin confirmed its interest in buying the American TikTok

Recently, media outlets reported that AppLovin is considering purchasing TikTok’s assets in the United States. The company has now officially confirmed this.
News April 4, 2025

Sales of inZOI have surpassed one million copies—making it KRAFTON’s fastest-selling game

The South Korean company KRAFTON announced that sales of the life simulation game inZOI have surpassed the million mark. It took just a week to reach this milestone; the game was released in early access on Steam on March 28.
Conferences April 3, 2025

We’re sharing details about the lecture program at the WN LiveOps Summit, which will be held very soon in Belgrade

Next Thursday, on April 10th, an event dedicated to video game operations will be held in the capital of Serbia. In this article, we will briefly cover the talks that will be presented at the WN LiveOps Summit.
News April 3, 2025

Newzoo: Russia is the fourth largest market by active audience size for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

The analytics company Newzoo examined the release metrics for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. They collected data on the game’s revenue and audience for its debut month (February 2025). Below are some figures from the report.
News April 3, 2025

Media: AppLovin wants to purchase TikTok’s assets in the United States

One of the contenders for purchasing TikTok’s American business is AppLovin, according to sources from The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. According to their information, AppLovin recently entered into talks regarding the deal.
News April 3, 2025

Shares of Nintendo fell following the presentation of the Nintendo Switch 2 and the introduction of new tariffs in the United States

April 3 began with a drop in Nintendo’s stock value. As noted by Bloomberg, their stock price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by 5.9% in the morning.
News April 3, 2025

GameDiscoverCo: The highest-grossing new release in March on Steam was Split Fiction

The founder of the analytics service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, shared which games released last month earned the most on Steam.
News April 2, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2 will go on sale on June 5, 2025, and will cost $450

Nintendo held a Nintendo Direct presentation dedicated to its next console. Below are the key details.
News April 2, 2025

Veterans from Jagex, Codemasters, and United Label have launched their own publishing company

A new company has emerged in the gaming market. A group of industry veterans has announced the launch of the publishing house The CoLab.
News April 2, 2025

Analytics: a quarter of Steam’s daily audience is concentrated in the top 5 most popular games. On PlayStation and Xbox, the numbers are even higher

A significant portion of the daily active user base (DAU) on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox is concentrated around a relatively small number of games. Analyst Simon Carless examined how users are distributed.
News April 2, 2025

In 2024, Steam released 147 hit games based on new IPs—8 times more than on PlayStation and 18 times more than on Xbox

Analyst Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo calculated how many games released in 2024 managed to sell over 100,000 copies across various platforms by March 2025. He also determined how many of these games were new IPs.
Premium Analytics April 2, 2025

Key Games of the First Quarter in Numbers: Major Releases in Terms of Revenue, Sales, MAU, and Other Metrics

Which games released in the first three months of 2025 turned out to be the most successful? We have prepared an extensive analysis based on sales charts from various countries and platforms, insights from analytical companies like Newzoo, as well as official data from developers and publishers.
News April 2, 2025

ZeniMax approved a strike against Microsoft over low wages for testers

The ZeniMax testers’ union might initiate a strike against Microsoft. The group held a vote on this matter, and 94% of the members of ZeniMax Workers United approved the proposal to organize a protest.
News April 1, 2025

Schedule I topped the weekly Steam sales chart, while inZOI made it into the top 3

As a result of the week from March 25 to April 1, 2025, the top of the Steam best-selling products chart underwent significant changes. Notably, an indie game called Schedule I climbed to the number one spot, becoming a hit.
News April 1, 2025

“We were practically at war with our customers” — Unity CEO on the controversy surrounding the engine’s pricing policy

In 2023, Unity found itself at the center of a monetization scandal involving its engine: it introduced a Runtime Fee for game installations, which developers strongly disliked. In an interview with The Verge, the company’s CEO, Matthew Bromberg, stated that Unity’s actions at the time triggered a genuine war between the company and its clients.
News April 1, 2025

Analytics: Only 7.2% of indie horror games in 2024 on Steam were successful

The past year was eventful for indie horror games on Steam. Hundreds of new games appeared on the Valve platform, yet only a handful achieved success. This conclusion was reached by gaming marketer Dmitriy Afanasyev, who studied the situation in this niche.
News April 1, 2025

The Urban Jungle simulator from developers in Yakutia was purchased 13,000 times in a week. The wishlist-to-sales conversion rate is about 11%

At the end of March, the indie studio Kylyk Games, consisting of three people, released their first game on Steam — Urban Jungle. The game’s initial performance was discussed by the project’s game designer, Kiunnei Vinokurova, on LinkedIn.
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