Johan Pilestedt, the creative director of Arrowhead studio, delivered a speech at the GDC 2025 conference. Specifically, he discussed the current crisis in the gaming industry.

In the development of Aliens vs Zombies: Invasion, the studio Game Gears, which is part of the GDEV holding, actively employed AI. How exactly these tools helped optimize production is detailed in a column for App2Top by Alexander Vaschenko, the CEO and AI evangelist of the studio.

The analytics company Newzoo shared the ranking of the top-grossing and most popular games on PC and consoles for February 2025.

The CEO of Housemarque, Ilari Kuittinen, shared the first details about the studio’s new game, a shooter with roguelike elements called Saros.

After being delayed twice, the global release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows finally took place. The game marks not only the return of the franchise but also Ubisoft’s departure from a whole series of its usual practices.

Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana shared a monthly report on the state of the gaming market in the U.S. Despite a wealth of new releases, overall revenue continues to decline.

On March 18, mo.co, a new action RPG from Supercell, was released on mobile devices. This marks the seventh game by the Finnish company to reach a global launch. However, this time the company adopted a new strategy for launching its projects, choosing a different approach.

Matt Lewis, Vice President of Product at Activision’s mobile division, shared insights about the launch of Call of Duty: Mobile and the lessons the company learned from this experience.

Media views and mentions are meaningless if not supported by numbers from Steam. This observation was recently shared on LinkedIn by Artem Shcherbakov, the founder of ROAR Games.

For its presentation at GDC 2025, the analytics firm Newzoo prepared an overview of the state of the gaming industry. Below are key insights about the PC market.

The phenomenal commercial success of just a few gaming studios has provided a powerful boost to the entire Turkish gaming industry.

Microsoft has shared updated data on ID@Xbox. Since the program’s inception, the company has paid indie developers a total of over $5 billion.

In less than a month, the capital of Serbia will host a summit for game developers and publishers dedicated to the operation and support of video games. Speakers will include representatives from MY.GAMES, PLAYSTUDIOS, Playkot, and Nexters.

Thanks to the spring sale, many old hits have predictably returned to the top of Steam’s best-selling games. However, the top five remain almost unchanged.

The consolidation in the gaming analytics market continues. Sensor Tower has announced the acquisition of the Video Game Insights (VG Insights) platform.

Layoffs continue among the developers of Payday. It has been reported that Starbreeze has finally decided to eliminate its French division.

We continue our series of publications about games seeking investments or a publisher. Up next, we have a piece on IamGraf, a rogue-like strategy game about managing a county.

Indie studio Pocketpair shared how the global success of Palworld unfolded at the GDC 2025 developer conference.

The Discord team has announced the release of the Discord Social SDK. With this tool, developers can integrate some chat service features directly into games.