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News May 30

Elden Ring Nightreign has surpassed the entire Dark Souls series combined in terms of online players on Steam

On the night of May 30th, the release of Elden Ring Nightreign — a cooperative spin-off of Elden Ring — took place on PC and consoles. The game quickly became very popular on Steam. Within a few hours, its online user count on Valve’s platform peaked at 313,593 players.
News May 29

More than 10 million people have played Atomic Heart

Atomic Heart has surpassed 10 million players worldwide, reports the studio Mundfish. It took just over two years to reach this milestone: the release of the retro-futuristic shooter occurred on February 21, 2023.
News May 29

20,000 copies sold and a 10.5% refund rate: the developers of Urban Jungle shared statistics for two months

Last week marked two months since the release of the decorator simulator Urban Jungle by developers from Yakutia. To commemorate this, the game designer Künnei Vinokurova disclosed a series of figures.
Interview May 29

“There are currently between 300 and 700 game projects in development in Russia,” said Danila Kamenev from FatPony and Indie GO Fund

On the topic of what indie is, how many game developers there are in Russia, and what their main problem is, the editorial team of App2Top spoke with the co-founder of the marketing agency FatPony, the head of publishing at Indie GO Fund, and author of the Telegram channel “Weary Publishing” Danila Kamenev.
News May 29

Steam now allows users to follow developers or publishers directly while purchasing their games

Game developers and publishers can create so-called homepages on Steam — personalized showcases featuring their titles, the latest news, and other important information. To make it easier and more efficient for teams to work with such pages, Valve has released a small update.
News May 29

Media: EA closed the studio behind the Black Panther game and conducted new layoffs

Electronic Arts (EA) continues to downsize its staff, reports IGN, referencing an internal letter from the president of EA Entertainment, Laura Miele. The company has now closed Cliffhanger Games.
News May 29

CD PROJEKT Report: Two Unannounced Games in Development, The Witcher 3 Has Earned $637 Million Over Its Lifetime

The CD PROJEKT group released its financial report for the first quarter of 2025, which spanned from January to March. It discussed revenue declines, game sales, and its pipeline.
Industry May 28

Why neither the new Battlefront nor the Star Wars game license fit into Electronic Arts’ strategy

Observing the massive surge of interest in Star Wars: Battlefront II is fascinating, even outside its context. For us, it presents an opportunity to discuss Electronic Arts’ long-term strategy, understand the company’s business priorities, and examine what games it aims to include in its portfolio.
News May 28

Sifu sales have exceeded 4 million copies

Yesterday, Kepler Interactive boasted about the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — within 33 days, the French JRPG was purchased 3.3 million times. As it turned out, the same press release concealed new sales figures for another game published by the company — Sifu.
News May 28

April 2025 became the second highest-grossing month for Candy Crush Saga in the entire history of AppMagic’s observations

In April 2025, the mobile puzzle game Candy Crush Saga earned $108.25 million in net IAP revenue, according to data from AppMagic. As our colleagues from MobileGamer noticed, the service recorded a larger monthly revenue for the game only once — in October 2021, and even then, it was only $38,000 higher.
News May 28

The Nioh series games have been purchased over 8 million times

The publisher Koei Tecmo and studio Team Ninja have announced that the total sales of the Nioh series have exceeded 8 million copies. The breakdown of sales between the first Nioh and its sequel was not specified.
News May 28

The developers of Humankind have raised 12 million euros

Amplitude Studios received significant investment. The studio announced that it secured €12 million in its latest funding round.
News May 28

Apple has purchased a game development studio for the first time

For the first time in history, the corporation Apple has included a game studio. This studio is the Canadian RAC7, consisting of just two people.
News May 27

Fantasy Life i has become the leader of the paid games chart on Steam, while Battlefront II has jumped up 55 positions

During the week from May 20 to May 27, there were several changes among the leaders by gross revenue in the Steam chart.
News May 27

The court hearing of the claim by the Prosecutor General’s Office in the “Lesta Games” case is scheduled for June 3

Originally, it was scheduled for today, May 27, but the Prosecutor General’s Office presented the court with new evidence. Due to this, the defense was granted a week to review it.
News May 27

Tencent canceled the strategy game Battle Aces by former Blizzard developers. The reason was weak metrics from beta testing

The studio Uncapped Games recently announced the discontinuation of its debut project— the free-to-play RTS Battle Aces, which was created with funding from Tencent.
Industry May 27

MY.GAMES celebrated the sixth anniversary of the brand by publishing metrics of its projects

The gaming company MY.GAMES, in honor of its sixth anniversary, released an infographic showcasing the latest key metrics of its major gaming blockbusters.
News May 27

Head of Strange Scaffold: The eight-year game development cycle feels chaotic and disorganized

The founder and head of the indie studio Strange Scaffold, Xalavier Nelson Jr., explained why he is more drawn to games developed in two years rather than those that take five years in production.
Neural networks May 27

The new generative model Veo 3 creates realistic gameplay videos. The cost of pleasure is $0.0075 per second

On May 20, Google introduced a new generative model — Veo 3. Recently, an AI enthusiast tried it in creating video gameplay and shared the costs involved in producing such clips.
News May 27

Square Enix and the developers of the canceled Front Mission 2089: Borderscape have settled a dispute over the theft of assets

Square Enix has agreed to peacefully settle a dispute with the publisher Ten Tree and the studio BlackJack Studio: in March, it accused them of plagiarism and asset theft.
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