On February 26, the Swedish indie studio semiwork released their new game, a cooperative horror titled R.E.P.O., in early access on Steam. According to analytics services, it has become a major hit.

Samsung has decided to reduce the commission in its Galaxy Store mobile app store. It announced that starting May 15, 2025, the commission rate for apps, games, and in-app purchases will be 20% instead of the current 30%.

The former head of Activision Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against Kotaku and Gizmodo, Steam’s peak online users have exceeded 41 million, and People Can Fly will no longer publish VR games. Here’s a roundup of the key events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

On April 16th, the capital of Belarus will host the conference “Game Industry.” It will feature a showcase of game projects. Participation in this event is free. Here’s what you need to do to attend.

On April 16, the “Gaming Industry” conference will take place in the capital of Belarus. It will feature a showcase of gaming projects, and participation is free of charge. Here’s what you need to do to attend.

Fntastic has a knack for generating scandalous occurrences, and this situation is no exception.

Sources from Bloomberg have shared fresh details about the future of Ubisoft. According to their information, the French publisher wants to establish a new company and transfer part of its key franchises to it, including Assassin’s Creed.

Annie and Jeff Strain, founders of Prytania Media, are suing NetEase. They claim that the actions of the Chinese company led first to the closure of their subsidiary studios and then to the shutdown of Prytania Media itself.

Nikolay Dybowski no longer works at Ice-Pick Lodge. The studio announced his resignation on social media.

It’s been a while since we’ve had content in our “Profession” section. Let’s fix that. The new article focuses on the aspects of working as a business development manager, also known as a bizdev. Victoria Belyaeva, Head of PR and Partnerships at AppMagic, shares what such a specialist does in her column for App2Top.

Back in 2008, Ubisoft opened a studio in Singapore and has since repeatedly received subsidies from the country’s authorities. In early March, Singaporean Member of Parliament Gerald Giam raised the issue of the sustainability of such prolonged government support for the company.

Valve has published Steam’s statistics for 2024. We’ve selected a few figures.

Hazelight Studios, founded by Josef Fares, announced on their Bluesky social media account that the cooperative adventure game Split Fiction has sold two million copies.

The Netflix catalog contains around a hundred games. As of today, the total number of downloads is 295 million, reports the MobileGamer portal, citing data from the analytics service AppMagic.

The American company Pragma has announced receiving strategic investments. It has been allocated $12.75 million to develop its namesake BaaS (backend-as-a-service) platform, used in operating live service games.

Eurogamer spoke with the game director of Avowed. During the interview, Carrie Patel mentioned that Microsoft considers the game to be quite successful.

Ubisoft is not forthcoming with its investors, according to the CEO of AJ Investments, an investment fund that holds less than 1% of the company’s shares. Specifically, it allegedly conceals information about strategically important decisions.

Five years ago, veterans from Respawn Entertainment, Epic Games, Bungie, and several other companies formed a studio called Mountaintop, where they began developing the tactical shooter Spectre Divide. However, the game ultimately did not take off, and it was decided to close the studio.

Announcing a game or informing about its update to a wide audience is not rocket science. However, there are nuances. Co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony and head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, Danila Kamenev, shared what options exist in this field.