Recently, the development of AI-based technologies has intensified the issue of game cloning in the game development industry. Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski analyzed the situation and shared which projects are easiest for hackers to copy.

The creators of the Destroy All Humans! remakes have once again become an independent team after nearly a decade of being under THQ Nordic’s control, a subsidiary of Embracer Group. The management of Black Forest Games has bought out the studio.

How can you move a live game from Flash to HTML5 without rewriting the client or disrupting the experience players know? In this column, SuperCity Development Lead Kirill Ivanov explains how his team approached incremental modernization, why it kept some legacy tools, and how internal automation cut certain workflows from days to hours.

On December 10, Tbilisi will host the WN C-Level Summit, which will bring together owners, founders, and top executives of gaming companies. The summit’s agenda includes reviews of the mobile and PC markets, discussions on strategies for the coming year, and a debate on cloning games using artificial intelligence.

The updated version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is selling very well in the UK, claims journalist Christopher Dring from The Game Business. According to his data, the game has shown the second-best launch in the franchise in terms of the number of physical copies sold in the country.

The company Unity is being targeted for acquisition. According to sources from Reuters, a consortium of investors, including the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Silver Lake, has shown interest.

The Sony Corporation reported a successful second quarter of fiscal 2026, which spanned from July 1 to September 30. Its gaming division managed to increase many key metrics, with some showing significant growth.

The third quarter of 2026 was extremely successful for Remedy Entertainment financially. As the company reported in the financial report, this was made possible by the excellent launch of Control Resonant.

Developers have started releasing games much more frequently on the digital store itch.io. Over the past two months, the average daily number of game pages created on the platform has effectively doubled.

The Chinese action RPG Phantom Blade Zero, developed by S-GAME, showcased one of the biggest launches in Steam history. On October 30, the game reached 731,026 concurrent users (CCU). This achievement placed it at 15th in the platform’s historical rankings.

Recently, investors have been generously investing in Turkish mobile studios.

American Congressman Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce the Power to the Players Act. Its goal is to protect gamers’ rights and prevent situations where publishers revoke access to purchased games.

In the professional game development community, there’s a theory suggesting that Steam wishlists have lost their former value. Game marketing expert Chris Zukowski explored this notion and shared his findings in the How To Market A Game blog.

Microsoft continues to build new teams within XBOX. Following the launch of XP, it has announced the creation of XBOX LABS—a division dedicated to exploring current technologies for game development.

Epic Games is now adopting an AI-first approach, focusing on artificial intelligence technologies.