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.

We continue to summarize the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. This time, we spoke with Alexander Mikheev, the head of VK Play.

Sources from Bloomberg report that the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating the company Hoyoverse, the western brand of miHoYo, since at least last summer. The agency is scrutinizing the gacha system in the game Genshin Impact.

In the coming weeks, Corinne Busche, who served as the game director for the latest installment of Dragon Age, may be leaving BioWare. Eurogamer reports this information, citing their sources.

We continue to review the outcomes of 2024 with gaming (or gaming-related) teams and experts. This time, we spoke with Artur Mostov, the director of the London branch of Larian Studios.

Yesterday, Nintendo officially revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 console. As noted by Bloomberg, despite the buzz surrounding the announcement, on the morning of January 17, the company’s stock price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by 5.9%. This marks the largest single-day drop for Nintendo since late September 2024.

The parent company of the publisher Focus Entertainment Publishing reported for the quarter spanning from October to December 2024. PulluP Entertainment boasted revenue growth amid the successes of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Drova, and other games.

Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier discovered that Sony has decided to cease the development of two unannounced projects. The cutbacks affected live-service games from Bluepoint Games and Bend Studio.