Finance and sales

Konami's shares have reached unprecedented levels following the announcement of a Momotaro Dentetsu game and the impressive performance of their struggling soccer series, eFootball.

Take-Two Interactive has announced its financial outcomes for the first fiscal quarter, reporting a 16% rise in net bookings, reaching $1.42 billion. This figure surpasses the expected guidance range, which was between $1.25 billion and $1.3 billion

Sony has announced its financial outcomes for the first quarter of 2025, showcasing a year-over-year rise of 8% in sales income and a 127% surge in operating income for its Games and Network Services segment

In a conversation with investors, Sony admitted that the transformation of the PlayStation business towards game services is "not going quite smoothly"

Unity has released its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year, showing minor declines in both total revenue and its Grow Solutions segment.

Unity released its financial report for the second quarter. The company remains unprofitable but is placing high hopes on its new advertising platform.

Sony has released its financial report for the first quarter, which ended on June 30, 2025. Below are the figures for the company's gaming division

Last week, Nintendo announced official sales figures and other metrics for the Switch 2. Today's article features numerous numbers and charts about the console's performance, including comparisons with the launches of competitor devices

The launch of the new isometric RPG from Grimlore Games and THQ Nordic in early access was very successful. In less than three days, it was purchased over 300,000 times

Atlus announced this milestone for the game on social media

Nintendo has announced its financial results for the quarter ending June 30, detailing sales statistics for both the Switch 2 hardware and software.

Roblox has released its financial report for the second quarter of the fiscal year, revealing that Q2 2025 outcomes "surpassed earlier top line and cash flow forecasts, driven by widespread strength throughout the platform and the rise of viral hits."

According to a recent report by AppMagic, a mobile market intelligence tool, casual game downloads have increased since the start of the year, but revenue has largely stayed the same.

The second quarter of 2025, which lasted from April 1 to June 31, was extremely successful for Roblox. The platform reported that its metrics improved thanks to the "emergence of several viral projects"

Capcom has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2025, highlighting robust growth in both net sales and income. The company also reported a year-on-year rise in unit sales of both new and back-catalogue titles.

Microsoft has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2025, highlighting robust growth in gaming revenue as well as in Xbox content and services.

Between April 6 and July 5, 2025, Microsoft was the publisher for six out of the ten top-selling PlayStation games

Capcom reported its quarterly results for the period ending June 30, 2025. The company boasted that its revenues significantly increased compared to last year.

Capcom reported on the quarter that ended on June 30, 2025. The company boasted that its revenues have significantly increased since last year

KRAFTON also released its financial report. The South Korean company shared figures for the first half of 2025

Electronic Arts (EA) reported the results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 (April-June 2025). In terms of revenue and earnings, it performed better than the company had anticipated

Electronic Arts has released its financial results for the initial quarter of the current fiscal year, reporting a "strong start" to FY26. The company's net bookings for the quarter surpassed the high end of its Q1 projections.

Last week, Tripwire Interactive released Killing Floor 3. Despite receiving "mixed" reviews, the shooter achieved strong sales on Steam. For the week of July 22-29, it ranked fourth among the top-grossing products on the platform, and if you exclude free-to-play titles and the Steam Deck, it even took first place

The Swedish holding company Thunderful Group is on the brink of bankruptcy. It has announced that in order to protect itself from financial collapse, it is forced to take a series of significant measures, including restructuring

Krafton, a publisher based in Korea, has announced its financial results for the first half of 2025. The company reported revenues amounting to ₩1.54 trillion ($1.1 billion), marking an 11.5% increase compared to the same timeframe in 2024. Additionally, profits rose by 9.5% to ₩703 billion ($505 million)

This figure was reported by PocketGamer, citing a report from the Spanish Video Game Association (AEVI). Compared to 2023, the amount increased by 3%

FromSoftware and Bandai Namco announced this achievement on the franchise's official account on X.

In June 2025, the American gaming market saw a sharp increase in revenue from console sales, reports Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. In that month, U.S. residents spent $978 million on gaming consoles—an increase of 249% compared to the previous year.

In June 2025, revenue from console sales in the American gaming market saw a sharp increase, reports Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. Over the month, U.S. residents spent $978 million on gaming consoles, which is 249% more than the previous year

Ubisoft's revenues continue to decline. In the report for the first fiscal quarter (April-June 2025), the company stated that it had expected to earn more during this period but was unable to do so for a number of reasons.

Ubisoft announced its financial outcomes for the first quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year, indicating earnings that fell "below expectations." The company reported a "lower-than-expected" performance from Rainbow Six Siege and cited an "unfavorable foreign exchange" impact. Additionally, a "partnership that is now expected to materialize in Q2" was mentioned. Despite these challenges, net bookings from its back catalog increased by 4% compared to the same period last year

In the week from July 15 to 22, the top ten of the Steam sales chart was almost entirely composed of free-to-play games. As before, the first two spots were occupied by Counter-Strike 2 and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS. Destiny 2 climbed to third place following the recent release of a new expansion pack.

Recently, FireFly Studios released Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on PC — a reissue of the iconic strategy game with enhanced graphics and many other updates. Within the first 48 hours, the game was purchased over 100,000 times

Gamescom 2025 is poised to set new records, as organizers have reported a 11% increase in exhibitor bookings compared to the same period last year.

The parent company of publisher Focus Entertainment Publishing reported on the first fiscal quarter, which lasted from April 1 to June 30, 2025. PulluP Entertainment is doing well.

While Counter-Strike 2 continues to lead the top-grossing products on Steam for the sixth consecutive week, there are some shifts happening in the rest of the chart. Below are the most notable changes from July 8-15

GDEV Corporation continues to share the successes of its games. Just three weeks ago, it announced that the mobile game Hero Wars earned $1.7 billion, and now it has shared data on the desktop version of the title — Hero Wars: Dominion Era

We conclude the week with a major feature on the most successful game releases of the past six months. Today, we'll discuss the biggest blockbusters, top sellers, and leading indie games on PC and consoles. If a title hasn't been given its own section — it's almost certainly featured on one of the numerous charts.

Sultan's Game is a card-based RPG inspired by the tales from "One Thousand and One Nights." Since its release three and a half months ago, it has been purchased over a million times worldwide

In a recent investment report, Aream & Co. did not list the largest gaming deals for the first half of 2025; however, they did compile a list for April to June 2025

Circana's May 2025 U.S. sales report highlights that "Elden Ring: Nightreign" emerged as the top-selling premium game for the month. Additionally, it ranks as the eleventh best-selling game of 2025 so far. The spin-off from FromSoftware's Elden Ring series led sales across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms.

The cooperative climbing simulator Peak continues to sell remarkably well. Aggro Crab, one of the two studios behind the game, discussed surpassing the milestone of 4.5 million copies in a conversation with Simon Carless, the founder of the GameDiscoverCo service.

The retail chain "M.Video-Eldorado" shared data on console sales in Russia for the first quarter of 2025. We have highlighted the key points from the report

Before summarizing the first half of the year, let's focus on the results of June's new game releases. In today's piece, there are plenty of figures and data about the extremely successful launch of Mario Kart World, the initial sales of Death Stranding 2, an unexpected FMV hit from China, as well as other key releases from the past month

Metacore Studio, known for the mobile puzzle game Merge Mansion, has reported its financial results for 2024. The company proudly announced that the team has, for the first time, turned a profit, with an annual profit of 18.7 million euros.

The service GameDiscoverCo attempted to determine the real size of the Steam market (Total Addressable Market) and calculate the revenue of different game categories. They conducted an experiment by leaving only two key tags for each game that earned more than a million dollars — one for the genre and one for the subgenre.

On the Nintendo website, a chart has been posted showing Nintendo Switch 2 sales as of June 30. According to it, less than a month since sales began on June 5, 5 million units of the console have been sold worldwide

The service GameDiscoverCo attempted to determine the actual size of the Steam market (Total Addressable Market) and calculate the revenue across different game categories. They conducted an experiment by leaving only two key tags for each game that earned more than a million dollars—one for the genre and the other for the subgenre.

The cooperative indie hit Peak took nine days to sell over 2 million copies. The developers from Aggro Crab and Landfall announced this new achievement in the game's Steam community.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has climbed back into the Top 10 of Newzoo's overall revenue chart for May, after initially entering at No. 13 in April