The analytical company VG Insights released a study on souls-likes on Steam. They examined all the games with the “souls-like” tag, released on the platform from January 2015 to October 2025.

In the fall of 2023, NetEase launched the studio Fantastic Pixel Castle, appointing veteran Riot Games producer Greg Street to lead it. After two years, the company decided to terminate this relationship.

The Finnish company Remedy Entertainment informed investors that it no longer expects to achieve an operating profit by the end of 2025. Instead, it now anticipates losses.

In August 2025, Americans spent $312 million on purchasing consoles, reports Circana analyst Mat Piscatella. This is a 32% increase compared to the previous year.

The CEO of Supercell, Ilkka Paananen, wrote an open letter criticizing the EU authorities. He is displeased with the proposals for regulating the digital space, which also affect games.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to investigate the activities of AppLovin, Bloomberg sources report. It is claimed that the regulator took notice of the company after short sellers accused it of fraud.

Recently, Japanese House of Representatives member Satoshi Asano claimed that Nintendo is trying to persuade the country’s authorities to introduce restrictions related to the use of generative artificial intelligence. According to the company itself, this is untrue.

It took Megabonk two weeks to hit the million mark.

Starbreeze announced the cancellation of Project Baxter, a cooperative game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The company decided to write off the development costs and lay off some developers.

Ubisoft has officially launched Vantage Studios, its subsidiary created in collaboration with Tencent.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), a sovereign wealth fund from the UAE, is preparing to finalize a major video game deal, according to sources from Insider Gaming. They claim that the fund has decided to invest approximately $100 million in the development of a third-person action game set in the “Lord of the Rings” universe.

Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed rumors about the decision to go private. The company has indeed reached an agreement with a group of investors for its buyout — under the terms of the deal, the company’s valuation will be 55 billion dollars.

December 31, 2025, will mark Doug Bowser’s final working day at Nintendo of America. The top executive announced his decision to leave the company.

The CEO of Jagex, the developer behind the iconic MMORPG RuneScape, Jon Bellamy, gave an interview to the portal The Game Business. During the conversation, he touched on the topic of AA games and their commercial potential.

The Polish studio Bloober Team released a report for January-June 2025. It revealed that it earned only 67 thousand zlotys ($18,500) on its home market over six months. This is 0.15% of its global revenue.

The failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has negatively impacted the finances of Rocksteady Studios, according to the studio’s report for the UK regulator for 2024. The document reveals a decline in key metrics.

The founder of GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, decided to explore which games are popular among Steam Deck owners. He approached the task from an unconventional angle.

Cubic Games, part of the GDEV group, has been actively using generative AI to create videos for its hit game Pixel Gun 2. The studio’s lead motion designer Evgenii Mikhidenko has now detailed the pipeline and shared key results in an exclusive article for Game World Observer.

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.