Forza Horizon 6 has unsurprisingly become one of the highest-grossing releases of 2026. Meanwhile, Playground Games has solidified its status as nearly the only Microsoft studio consistently delivering hits. Today, we'll not only examine the launch of the new installment in the series but also explore the state of the genre as a whole

The last fiscal year (April 2025 – March 2026) was excellent for Take-Two Interactive. The company’s results surpassed its forecasts.

We continue to publish daily video reports from the "Gaming Industry" conference, which took place on April 22 in Minsk

The analytics company Sensor Tower has published a comprehensive report on the state of mobile for the first quarter of 2026. We have selected the key points related to games.

Menace is an iGaming group that includes an operator, media, and a gaming studio. Its founder, Dmitry Belyanin, announced the sale of the operator segment of the asset

Recently, the business conference for game developers and publishers, "Game Industry," successfully wrapped up in Minsk. Now it's gearing up for an event in Moscow, with just a month and a half to go until it starts. Here are the first details

Indie publisher Devolver Digital has decided to sue Erick Scarecrow, an artist and founder of the ESC-Toy company, which produces various merchandise. The company accused him of years-long copyright infringement

Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick remains optimistic about the future of the recently revitalized online shooter, Project Ethos. Zelnick believes the game will achieve significant success, notwithstanding the mounting market challenges that have affected even established names like Bungie in the genre.

Take-Two Interactive, known for its Grand Theft Auto franchise, reported a 19% rise in both net revenue and net bookings for its 2026 fiscal year

Bungie intends to implement substantial staff reductions following the cessation of development on the live-service game Destiny 2, as reported by Jason Schreier of Bloomberg

Last night, Bungie announced that it will stop releasing content for the looter-shooter Destiny 2. The final update, titled Monument of Triumph, is set to be released on June 9. According to Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, as a result, some employees will be leaving the studio

The last fiscal year (April 2025 - March 2026) was excellent for Take-Two Interactive. The company's results surpassed its forecasts.

Room 8 Group, a services provider, has named Juanita Draude as its new CEO

Fortyseven Communications, a games public relations firm based in the United States, is set to establish a London office by merging with its sister agency, Indigo Pearl.

This conclusion was reached by CrazyGames, the company that owns the eponymous web games platform

Irina Borodina, the marketing director of Digital Vortex Entertainment, explained how the company managed to gather over 200,000 wishlists for their new game, DREADMOOR

Irene Borodina, CMO of Digital Vortex Entertainment, explained how wishlists for the new game DREADMOOR were specifically generated in her column for Game World Observer.

The director of Returnal, Harry Krueger, has established a new gaming company called Cosmic Division.

We continue to publish daily video reports from the "Gaming Industry" conference, which recently took place in Minsk

Circana analyst Mat Piscatella shared on the Bluesky social network how April turned out for the gaming market in the U.S. He provided both general data and a chart of the most successful games — among which was the pirate survival game Windrose by Uzbekistan's Kraken Express.

A new independent studio in Canada, Studio Reset, has been established by experienced developers hailing from BioWare, Inflexion Games, and Timbre Games.

At the end of February 2026, the studio Quantic Dream released the MOBA Spellcasters Chronicles in early access. Three months have passed since then, but the game has not managed to attract a wide audience

Swedish online casino solutions developer Evolution has announced plans to buy back some of its shares. The company aims to optimize its capital structure in this way

The last financial year was one of the worst in Ubisoft's history. The company informed investors that for the period from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, its key metrics significantly declined

Quantic Dream is closing down Spellcasters Chronicles just three months after its debut.

It took five days to reach the mark.

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 videos of the reports from the "Gaming Industry" conference, held recently in Minsk, on a daily basis. Today, we have a report from iWorlds. It was 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 recently took place in Minsk. Today, we have a report 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