The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/30/cd-projekt-announced-the-sale-of-gog-for-25-million
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.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/26/in-mexico-there-will-still-be-no-tax-on-violent-video-games
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.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/24/the-developers-of-rainbow-six-mobile-have-formed-a-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.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/23/the-gaming-industry-in-2025-by-the-numbers-an-overview-from-gamesindustry
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.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/17/tencent-has-invested-in-the-developers-of-the-bodycam-shooter-unrecord
The terms and conditions of the deal are not disclosed.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/16/ubisoft-acquired-the-amazon-games-montreal-studio
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.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/11/the-uk-government-will-conduct-an-investigation-into-the-layoffs-at-rockstar-games
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.
Last evening, December 8, a new development in the situation with the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery was revealed. Paramount announced that it does not intend to hand over the media giant to Netflix competitors and wants to acquire it itself.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/09/paramount-announced-the-beginning-of-a-hostile-takeover-of-warner-bros-discovery
Katsuhiro Harada will step down by the end of December.The transaction amount will be $82.7 billion.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/05/netflix-acquires-warner-bros-discovery-including-its-gaming-studios-too
Netflix continues to divest its gaming assets, reports journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File. This time, the company has decided to sell the studio Spry Fox, a pioneer of merge games, back to its founders.
Two months ago, Electronic Arts (EA) announced that it would soon be acquired by a consortium of investors. At that time, it did not disclose the share each participant would receive as a result of the deal, but these details have become known from a recent company report to Brazil’s antitrust regulator.
The American indie team Yacht Club Games is not in the best financial shape. Studio leaders disclosed this in a conversation with Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.
This is the fastest-growing gaming market among the countries of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, reports the analytics company Niko Partners.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/12/01/in-2025-indias-gaming-market-revenue-will-exceed-one-billion-dollars-analysis
