Such statistics were shared by the analytics company Sensor Tower.

Meta Corporation will undergo a significant restructuring within its Reality Labs division, which deals with the metaverse and virtual reality technologies. Among those affected will be gaming teams.

Layoffs will occur at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm studios.

Tom Francis is the founder and head of the British studio Suspicious Developments, which created the games Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. In his blog, he gave some basic advice to indie teams.

We continue our 2025 wrap-up together with top managers and experts from the games industry (and related fields). Up next is an interview withwith Cameron Hozouri, CEO and co-founder ByteBrew.

The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński.

The last days of December are the best time to reflect on what happened this year. This time, we are doing it with representatives of prominent game-related companies. We begin this series with Roman and Kirill Gurskiy, managing directors at GEM Capital.

In September, the Ministry of Finance of Mexico proposed introducing an 8% tax on games containing “violent” content. Three months later, this idea was abandoned.

Dissatisfaction with Square Enix’s work does not prevent the 3D Investment Partners fund from continuing to purchase shares of the Japanese company. Recently, they increased their stake from 14.36% to 16.48%.

The gaming industry is seeing an increasing number of unions. Now, the Canadian studio Ubisoft Halifax has announced the formation of a labor union.

The end of the year is approaching. To mark the occasion, the editorial team at GamesIndustry has published its traditional infographic summarizing key figures for the gaming industry. We’ve highlighted the most important insights from it.

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Alinea Analytics.

Naughty Dog is notoriously known as a studio where employees periodically have to work excessive overtime. According to sources cited by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, the team recently faced another round of crunches—this time related to the game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

The dispute over the plagiarism of the Horizon game series has been resolved.

According to GamesIndustry, the Chinese giant has acquired a minority stake in Drama Studios. Neither the exact size of the stake nor the amount of the transaction has been publicly disclosed.

The terms and conditions of the deal are not disclosed.

The French studio Sandfall Interactive mentioned this amount in an interview with The New York Times.

The issue of the dismissal of several dozen employees from Rockstar Games was raised at the latest session of the British Parliament.

The founder of the analytical service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, examined how the release of games on Steam unfolded after leaving Early Access in 2025. He discovered that the majority of them failed to surpass their initial performance.