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.

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: