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The gaming market is recovering from the post-pandemic downturn, claim analysts from Boston Consulting Group. Below are some figures from their latest report

Aspyr has disclosed that it failed to release the promised Restored Content DLC for the Nintendo Switch edition of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2. This was due to an inability to furnish Disney with a comprehensive list of the modders' legal names.

3D Investment Partners, the third-largest shareholder in Square Enix, has asserted that the company has shown a "significant deterioration in earning power." The investor has urged the company to "devise and rigorously implement concrete countermeasures addressing critical management issues"

A coalition of six video game unions from Western Europe has come together to denounce artificial intelligence, hazardous work environments, and the recurrent layoffs affecting employees in the gaming sector.

Netflix has stated that it placed no valuation on Warner Bros' gaming division as part of its planned acquisition of the entertainment giant.

Last evening, December 8, a new development in the situation with the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery was revealed. Paramount announced that it does not intend to hand over the media giant to Netflix competitors and wants to acquire it itself.

Singaporean fund 3D Investment Partners, which owns 14.36% of Square Enix shares, criticized the company. They shared their comments in a 112-page presentation.

Recently, Roskachestvo analyzed Candy Crush Saga, Royal Match, Homescapes, "World of Domovyat," and 10 other popular mobile games in the Match-3 genre. The experts were interested in whether these games contain manipulative mechanics. As it turns out, they do.

Embracer Group's shares have plummeted by more than 30% as the company prepares to spin off Coffee Stain Group on December 11

A new gaming studio, Last Arrow, has launched in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, with leadership from experienced professionals previously associated with Sumo Digital, CCP, and Electronic Arts

Formally, the new team has joined 2K Games.

Take-Two Interactive has recruited Darren Gallagher and Brian Horton from The Initiative to establish a new studio under the 2K label.

iam8bit, a merchandise specialist, has filed a lawsuit against publisher Skybound Games, alleging fraud and breach of contract

Before entering negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix executives considered the possibility of acquiring other companies, Bloomberg reports. According to the information, Electronic Arts (EA) was among the organizations that piqued Netflix's interest

Last night, on December 8, it was reported that there was a new twist in the situation regarding the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount announced that it does not intend to let the media giant go to competitors like Netflix and wants to acquire it themselves.

Pokémon TCG Pocket, Dredge, Cyberpunk 2077, Porta Nubi, and What The Clash? were all honored in Apple's year-end 2025 App Store Awards

Ys Net is contemplating legal measures after a video teaser, inaccurately purported to be of Shenmue 4, surfaced online last week.

Entertainment powerhouse Paramount Skydance has initiated a hostile bid to acquire Warner Bros Discovery, mere days following the latter's agreement to a deal with Netflix

The gaming markets in Asia and the MENA region are projected to achieve $88.97 billion in revenue by 2025, surpassing earlier forecasts.

Shuhei Yoshida, previously the leader of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, has stated that game developers in Japan are struggling to match the speed of their counterparts in China.

Katsuhiro Harada will step down by the end of December.

VK summarized the year and listed the games most frequently mentioned by users on VKontakte in their posts and comments. It was emphasized that the tone of the messages was not considered in the statistics: games could be either praised or criticized

Katsuhiro Harada will resign by the end of December.

Veterans from PlayStation London Studio, Disney Interactive, and Square Enix have established a new studio.

After a three-decade tenure, Katsuhiro Harada, a seasoned veteran of the Tekken series, has announced his exit from Bandai Namco

Last Friday, the sixth episode of the Web Shop Arena show took place, where mobile game developers compete for a prize of $50,000.

Skybound Games is the gaming division of Skybound Entertainment, which owns the rights to The Walking Dead universe. As noted by Engadget, it recently received a lawsuit from the publisher iam8bit.

"Tiny Bunny" set a new online player record on Steam following the release of its final episode, the creators of the canceled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise decided to shut down their studio, and sales of The Forsaken Hollows expansion for Elden Ring Nightreign exceeded 2 million copies in just two days — here are the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend

Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros, a major player in the entertainment industry, in a transaction estimated to be worth approximately $82.7 billion

The Russian authorities have restricted access to the gaming platform Roblox for its citizens, citing claims that it contains "LGBT propaganda."

The transaction amount will be $82.7 billion.

For 22 years, Obsidian Entertainment studio has managed to survive in the most challenging situations. Thanks to its versatile approach to development, it holds a unique position within the structure of Microsoft Gaming today. However, the studio is still in search of its identity, unable to produce a truly big hit in its specialized RPG genre.

The total value of the deal will be $82.7 billion.

Meta is reportedly considering reductions in staff within its Reality Labs metaverse division, which oversees the Quest VR headset and the Horizon Worlds platform.

Recently, the Google Play and RuStore teams shared their lists of the best games of the year. Now it's Apple's turn.

Update: Gregorios Kythreotis has confirmed that he and Daniel Fineberg, his co-founder at Shedworks, "have gone [their] separate ways"

Japanese publishing powerhouse Sega has announced its plan to incorporate AI in its game development processes while emphasizing a careful approach to its application

Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed a collaboration with Bad Robot Games to aid in the development of the latter's inaugural internally created game.

Meta's management is considering reducing the budget for the metaverse team by 30% in 2026, sources told Bloomberg.

MY.GAMES has shared new data on Rush Royale's successes in honor of the game's upcoming fifth anniversary.

The management of Three Fields Entertainment has informed the entire team about the risk of layoffs. The studio is facing financial issues.

Oscar Jilsén and Mikael Mård, the co-founders of Coffee Stain known for their work on the successful titles Goat Simulator and Satisfactory, have unveiled their latest venture, a new game development studio named Feeble Minds.

Three Fields Entertainment, established by the creators of Burnout and recently responsible for releasing the open world driving game Wreckreation, has informed its entire workforce that they face the possibility of job cuts

Netflix continues to divest its gaming assets, reports journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File. This time, the company has decided to sell the studio Spry Fox, a pioneer of merge games, back to its founders.

The number of game copies sold in the network's stores is not disclosed

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 marked the most significant third-party release on Xbox Game Pass in 2023

Last year, VK announced ambitious plans to turn VK Play into a "single entry point for gamers in Russia." At that time, it started selling Steam keys on the platform and soon allowed for topping up the Steam wallet. Now, VK Play has taken it a step further.

Eidos-Montréal, the studio under the Embracer Group known for creating Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, is reportedly experiencing another round of layoffs, after facing previous staff reductions in March

On November 26, a remake of Sublustrum, a cult Russian quest game by the Phantomery Interactive team, was announced. The App2Top editorial team spoke with Georgiy Beloglazov, founder and CEO of Brickworks Games, about how the work on the new game is progressing and what it will be like.

On November 26, the remake of Sublustrum, a cult Russian quest game by the team at Phantomery Interactive, was announced. The editorial team at App2Top spoke with Georgy Beloglasov, the founder and CEO of Brickworks Games, about how the development of the new game is progressing and what exactly it will be like