The Chinese giant Tencent has approached the court with a request to dismiss the lawsuit from Sony, which was filed due to the similarities between the game Light of Motiram and the Horizon series projects. According to Tencent, there is actually no plagiarism involved — Light of Motiram merely incorporates established gaming ideas and concepts.

Nekki has received support from Epic Games. The company announced that it received $50,000 as part of the Epic MegaGrant program.

On September 16, during trading, the value of tinyBuild shares reached 11 pence ($0.15) per unit, which is 13% higher than the previous day and overall the best result for the company since the end of 2023. This was how its investors reacted to the financial report for the first half of 2025.

The Ministry of Finance of Mexico has proposed introducing a special 8% tax on games with “violent” content in the country. The idea is outlined in Mexico’s 2026 budget program.

On the evening of September 11th, the release of Borderlands 4 took place. According to SteamDB, shortly after its launch, the looter-shooter managed to attract 207,479 concurrent players on Steam, marking the best result in the series.

A conflict has erupted between the Polish studio Byterunners and the publisher Movie Games, potentially escalating into a legal battle. The developers of the Drug Dealer Simulator duology have claimed that the publisher is violating their rights and not paying sufficient royalties.

Yesterday, on September 9, 2025, marked the 30th anniversary of the release of the PlayStation 1 in the United States. To commemorate this occasion, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella named the Sony console games that have performed best in the American market in terms of revenue and units sold over the years.

The analytics company Newzoo has released a forecast for the global video game market in 2025. Here are the key points:

At the 2025 Roblox Developer Conference, Roblox’s Senior Vice President Nick Tornow shared information about the annual revenue of the most successful developers on the platform. He refrained from naming names but disclosed the average amounts.

On the evening of September 4, 2025, the highly anticipated Metroidvania game Hollow Knight: Silksong was released on PC and consoles. The new release from Team Cherry created significant excitement.

Peter Babieno, President of Bloober Team, mentioned in an interview with PAP Biznes that the production budget for Cronos: The New Dawn was not as large as some analysts assumed.

The sequel to Titan Quest was released in early access on August 1, 2025—almost two decades after the original’s release. According to former THQ Vice President of Studio Operations Richard Browne, the game could have launched much earlier, but marketers got in the way.

Recently, the shareholders of Thunderful Group approved the sale of 81.7% of the Swedish holding company to Atari. In an interview with GamesIndustry, Atari CEO Wade Rosen discussed why he decided to go through with this deal.

Last week, 11 bit studios reported its financial outcomes for the first half of 2025, revealing that The Alters, released towards the end of this period, accounted for 35.6% of the company’s revenue.

The Polish corporate group CD PROJEKT released its financial report for January-June 2025. They announced that their revenue reached 443 million zlotys (121.1 million USD), which is 4% more than the previous year. The main source of income was Cyberpunk 2077.

Valve’s Business Development Manager Erik Peterson spoke at the Devcom developers conference held during Gamescom 2025. He revealed some fresh data about the Steam store.

Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana released his monthly report on the state of the U.S. gaming market. We’ve highlighted the key figures.

The Google Corporation has decided to make Android safer. It announced that in the near future, all developers will be required to verify their identity, otherwise their applications will become unavailable for download.

The failure of individual games is an unavoidable part of business for large corporations like Sony, whose internal studios work on dozens of projects. Hermen Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios, approaches this philosophically.