NetEase seems to have reduced its workforce at its Montréal studio.

The unions at Ubisoft, including STJV, CFE-CGC, CGT, Printemps Ecologique, and Solidaires Informatique, have issued a call for "a massive international strike"

The Highguard case is quite illustrative of the modern industry—particularly in the segment where startups founded by so-called development veterans operate. Today, we'll analyze the main mistakes made by Wildlight Entertainment studio, which turned its debut project into one of the strangest announcements and releases in recent years

Amazon has revealed a new wave of layoffs, marking the second in as many months, which will affect 16,000 positions throughout the company.

The head of Hooded Horse, a publishing house best known for Manor Lords and the upcoming Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, Tim Bender, gave an interview to PC Gamer. During the conversation, he criticized the vast majority of indie publishers and essentially urged developers to self-publish their games.

The Godot team has released a new version of their engine. It's been four months since the release of the previous version, 4.5.

We continue to wrap up 2025 alongside gaming and gaming-related teams. Up next is an interview with Denis Khamin, co-owner of the game localization and 2D- and 3D-art outsourcing studio Allcorrect

Wrapping up 2025 with gaming experts. Up next is an interview with the director of the publishing house "4game," Andrey Mayakin

She owned 44.95% of the shares in Iron Wolf Studio.

In 2026, we continue to join top executives from the gaming industry (and related fields) in reviewing the past year, 2025. Up next is an interview with Kirill Perevozhchikov, the founder of the White Label PR agency

Jack Emmert has rejoined Cryptic Studios, the company behind Star Trek Online, as CEO

In-game currency can still be classified as property.

The head of Hooded Horse, best known for Manor Lords and the upcoming Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, Tim Bender, gave an interview to PC Gamer. During the conversation, he criticized the majority of indie publishers and essentially encouraged developers to self-publish their games

The roguelike beat 'em up reached this level of sales just over three months after its release: it debuted on October 9, 2025

Maciej Gołębiewski, the managing director of GOG, has admitted that the firm's choice to withdraw the Taiwanese horror game Devotion from its platform in 2020 negatively impacted its reputation.

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with gaming teams and experts. Next up is an interview with the founder and CEO of EasyWin, Ivan Leshkevich

We continue to summarize the year 2025 with gaming teams and experts. Next in line is an interview with the top managers of Top App Games: CMO Nikita Kharlamov and CBDO Diana Korkina.

The Japanese gaming powerhouse Square Enix has announced that it will stick with Unreal Engine 4 for the development of the next installment in its Final Fantasy 7 Remake series, opting not to upgrade to the more recent Unreal Engine 5.

We continue our 2025 wrap-up together with top managers and experts from the games industry. Up next is an interview with Ivan Leshkevich, Founder and CEO at EasyWin.

We continue our 2025 wrap-up together with top managers and experts from the games industry (and related fields). Up next is an interview with Nikita Kharlamov and Diana Korkina, top managers at Top App Games.

Already in 2026, we continue to review the outcomes of 2025 with gaming (or related to the gaming sector) teams and experts. This time, the editorial team spoke with Nikita Bokarev, the head of business development at Yandex Games

The Competition Appeal Tribunal in London has decided to forward a lawsuit against Valve to court. The company is accused of “profiteering off British gamers” through Steam.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal in London has decided to forward a lawsuit against Valve to court. The company is accused of "profiteering off British gamers" through Steam.

We continue to wrap up the outgoing year together with representatives from gaming and gaming-adjacent companies. Up next is a conversation with Natalya Tolkacheva and Irma Novikova, representing the legal firm Prospectacy.

She did this as part of a strategic review of the gaming portfolio: recently, Aristocrat has been paying more attention to social casinos. For this reason, Aristocrat previously sold Plarium, known for RAID: Shadow Legends.

Capcom has released its financial results for the nine-month period concluding on December 31, 2025, indicating notable growth in all areas.

We continue to wrap up 2025 by focusing on gaming teams. Up next is an interview with the founder of Misterial Games, Sergey Korolev

China-based mobile game publisher Yodo1 has introduced its latest data platform for intellectual property and licensing, named IPVerse.

Valve, the major player in the PC gaming industry, is facing a £656 million lawsuit in the UK. The legal action alleges that the revenue share taken by its Steam platform is excessively high and adversely affects consumers.

Capcom released its financial report for April-December 2025, stating that this period was quite successful for the company.

The upcoming WN Abu Dhabi’26 has a very packed schedule. This two-day event (February 11-12) will focus on networking and discussions on topics relevant to the gaming industry. We share the first details of the program.

The upcoming WN Abu Dhabi '26 has a very packed schedule. The event will take place over two days (February 11 and 12) and will focus on networking and discussing current topics relevant to the gaming industry. Here are the first details of the program

Dusty Welch, the CEO and founder of Wildlight Entertainment, expressed his desire for a more favorable reception of their free-to-play shooter, Highguard

Ubisoft continues to lay off staff. This time, it plans to part with approximately 18% of the employees at its Paris headquarters.

On the evening of January 26, the release of Highguard took place on PC and consoles. Highguard is a free-to-play raid shooter from Wildlight Entertainment, which sparked controversy following its announcement at The Game Awards 2025. On Steam, the game had a mixed start

The third edition of the Gamescom executive summit is set to return in February in Lisbon, Portugal

Ubisoft is planning to cut 200 positions at its headquarters in Paris as part of its ongoing cost-cutting measures. The company has initiated a voluntary redundancy program to carry out these reductions, with discussions to be held with trade unions. According to GamesIndustry.biz, this represents 18% of the staff at Ubisoft International.

Jagex, the UK-based game developer, has announced that players will not find any AI-generated content in its games.

The European Union's iteration of the Stop Killing Games petition garnered 1.3 million signatures.

During the Christmas season, live service games emerged as the primary sources of revenue. Arc Raiders held steady in third place, whereas Call of Duty and Battlefield faced challenges in making a significant impact.

A new memorandum of understanding has been signed between Savvy Games Group and Neom, aimed at facilitating the transition of Saudi games startups from "incubation to acceleration."

This was reported by the portal TrueAchievements, which analyzed all games released in 2025 in the Microsoft Store. Their statistics cover games for both Xbox consoles and PC.

This is reported by the portal TrueAchievements, which analyzed all the games released in the Microsoft Store up to and including 2025. Its statistics cover games for both Xbox consoles and PCs

Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven is a major story DLC that introduced winter, new enemies, animal husbandry mechanics, and much more to the game. According to analysts from Alinea Analytics, it achieved higher sales on Steam in its debut day than the last three expansions combined did over a week.

Ubisoft is experiencing significant anger and despair among its ranks in the wake of its recent restructuring initiative

Specialists in the virtual reality sector have expressed concern over Meta's move to shut down three studios and implement layoffs in its Reality Labs division, which concentrates on the metaverse.

Xbox aims to "more consistently" release its first-party titles on the PlayStation 5 platform

Their total exceeded 104,000.

According to an insider, Ubisoft is expecting a massive employee exodus, 46 US Congress members have urged the FTC to thoroughly review the sale of EA, and 5 million people have played Enshrouded — here's a rundown of the major events in the gaming industry from the past weekend

Over 40 million people log into Steam daily. However, this doesn't mean that the platform has enough traffic for everyone. Tens of thousands of products compete for users' attention, and this base continues to grow. Up to 2,000 new titles are released on the platform every month. We spoke with market experts to discuss how to gain organic reach in this environment—Danila Kamenev, head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, and Dmitry Muratov, head of publishing at Skystone Games.