Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox, has made additional adjustments to the brand's leadership team, naming industry analyst Matthew Ball as the new chief strategy officer and Scott Van Vliet as the chief technology officer. Ball is recognized as a venture partner, advisor, and investor, celebrated for his annual industry reports and his acclaimed book about the metaverse. Meanwhile, Van Vliet recently held the position of corporate vice president, managing Azure AI infrastructure.

The nominations for this year's Develop:Star Awards 2026 are led by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Ghost of Yōtei.

Adult games are one of the most vibrant and taboo segments of the industry. Today, we're releasing a comprehensive report on the market's current state. Which genres are leading today, how much the top performers are earning, what engines projects are built on, and where developers and publishers are located — we'll attempt to answer these and other questions

We continue to publish video reports from the "Gaming Industry" conference on a daily basis, which recently took place in Minsk. Today, we have a report from iWorlds, presented by Alexander Nasonov, the founder of the studio

In April, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream topped Circana's US charts, amassing more than $41 million from a combination of physical and estimated digital sales

Embracer Group has outlined the next phase of its transformation.

Over the past year, he was asked to finance approximately 250 such games.

Lars Wingefors, former CEO of Embracer Group, commented that spinning off Fellowship Entertainment "represents the most effective long-term solution"

At the end of 2023, Harry Krueger, a veteran of Housemarque who contributed to Returnal and Nex Machina and even worked on Saros, left the studio. It turned out that he did not leave game development entirely and recently founded his own team

Embracer Group has announced its financial outcomes for the fourth quarter and the entire fiscal year. In conjunction with these results, the company has unveiled plans to separate Fellowship Entertainment, establishing it as a new entity on the public stock market.

The developer and publisher of the Hero Wars series shared its financial results for the first three months of 2026. For GDEV, this period went quite well

Roblox Corporation, the owner of the gaming platform of the same name, has initiated a stock buyback program for the first time in its history

U.S. Senators Katie Britt and Richard Blumenthal have drafted a bill called the Gaming Advertisement to Minors Enforcement Act, or simply the GAME Act. Through this legislation, the politicians aim to prohibit online sports betting advertisements from targeting individuals under the age of 18

Wizards of the Coast has terminated its publishing agreement with Giant Skull, resulting in the cancellation of an action-adventure game based in the Dungeons & Dragons universe

In its financial report, Embracer Group discussed not only financial matters but also the next stage of its transformation.

The Swedish holding company Embracer Group reported on the last fiscal year, which ended on March 31, 2026. We have selected key figures from the document

We continue to publish daily video reports from the "Gaming Industry" conference, which was recently held in Minsk. Today, we feature a presentation from Mirra Games. It was delivered by Serafima Okuneva, who is responsible for new product development at the company.

Valve has revised its tagging system on Steam by adding 17 new categories, removing 28, and either consolidating or renaming a number of existing tags.

Epic Games announced this landmark event in the news section of its website. The company noted that this result was achieved due to prolonged legal proceedings in the United States.

Far Far West is a cooperative shooter about robo-cowboys developed by the French studio Evil Raptor. The game was released in early access on Steam less than a month ago but has already achieved excellent results

The game also became available in the Russian version of the App Store.

Fortnite has been reinstated in Apple's App Store globally, with Australia as an exception, as anticipation grows that US federal courts may mandate Apple to reveal its fee structure

Fireshine Games, the company responsible for the popular Steam title Far Far West, has announced that it will not collaborate with developers who utilize generative AI art.

In 2024, the indie team from Poland, Mighty Koi, announced ambitious plans: they wanted to follow in the footsteps of CD PROJEKT and announced two games based on works by Polish authors — Thorgal and The Night Wanderer. However, two years later, the studio found itself in a dire financial situation

From time to time, Valve optimizes the user tag system on Steam by removing outdated tags or adding new ones. This time, the company decided to do both.

Gamecity Hamburg has chosen five digital games to each receive up to €80,000 in non-repayable grants as part of its latest Prototype Funding Round

In 2025, unlicensed online gambling generated $5.9 trillion worldwide, which is a 4% increase compared to 2024. These figures were shared by analysts at Gaming Compliance International (GCI)

The US National Recording Registry will include the original Doom soundtrack in its collection.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow continues to issue fines to game developers and publishers. Now Epic Games has joined the long list of penalized companies

Hermen Hulst reportedly stated this during a meeting with employees on May 18, according to Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier

Sony has announced that it will be increasing the prices for its PlayStation Plus (PS+) subscription service.

In response to speculation earlier this year about Sony scaling back on releasing PlayStation 5 exclusives for PC, Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, has reportedly informed staff that PlayStation's single-player titles will continue to be exclusive to the company's consoles.

We continue our series of YouTube interviews. This time, we talked about the fundamentals of monetization with Maksim Fomichev, a producer at Holiday Studios. We covered the very basics to ensure we don't forget the essentials, as they say

Such an amount was mentioned by Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick in an interview with podcaster David Senra.

In an interview with podcaster David Senra, Strauss Zelnick, the head of Take-Two Interactive, mentioned this amount.

The Sunday Times has compiled its annual list of the wealthiest residents in the United Kingdom. For the second consecutive year, brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, founders of Playrix, have secured the 10th spot on the list

Pre-orders for Nex Playground have commenced in both the UK and Ireland

Gambling.com Group, a company specializing in analytics services for online gambling, faced a sharp drop in its stock. Within a day, the value of its shares decreased by 53%, reports the portal next.io

Two American gamers have decided to sue Sony's gaming division. The plaintiffs claimed that it gained "significant unforeseen income" due to the situation surrounding tariffs imposed in 2025 by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Konami decided to completely exit Russia and Belarus, Xbox has undergone a minor rebranding, Terraria sales surpassed 70 million copies — here are the main events in the gaming industry from the past weekend

It has been reported about layoffs at the Cypriot-Georgian gaming studio Gameteq, whose core team was formed from employees of the Krasnodar office of Plarium in 2022

The summit is happening very soon — in two weeks, on May 28th. From 9 AM to 5 PM, industry experts will share their experiences, cases, and advice with each other in a roundtable format.

Unity has announced the recipients of its 2026 Unity for Humanity Grant, recognizing the accomplishments of ten developers and three honorable mentions spanning eight different countries

The majority of the members of the California State Assembly Appropriations Committee voted in favor of it.

The majority of members of the California State Assembly's Appropriations Committee voted in favor of it.

The summit will take place very soon — in two weeks, on May 28. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., industry experts will share their experiences, case studies, and advice with each other in roundtable discussions

The sequel to the underwater survival game Subnautica has marked one of the largest launches of 2026. Today, we will not only analyze the game's release (including in the context of Krafton's financial strategy), but also examine the performance of the highest-grossing titles in the genre

We continue to publish daily videos of presentations from the "Gaming Industry" conference, which was recently held in Minsk. Today we have a presentation from "Yandex Games." It was delivered by Nikita Bokarev, the head of business development for the platform

The developers from Unknown Worlds had just announced that Subnautica 2 had sold 1 million copies when their parent company KRAFTON brought more news. They shared that the game reached 2 million copies sold just 12 hours after its release

Nexon's first-quarter financial performance showed robust growth, with net income increasing by 118% compared to the same period last year, thanks to a ¥14.5 billion ($91.4 million) gain from foreign exchange.