Ubisoft published a report for the third quarter of its current fiscal year, covering the period from October 1 to December 31, 2025. Here are the highlights from the document.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/13/ubisoft-report-rise-in-pc-sales-and-the-success-of-assassins-creed
On December 31, 2025, Embracer Group concluded the third quarter of its current fiscal year. In a recent report, the Swedish holding company detailed how this period unfolded.
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen published the company’s traditional blog column, discussing the successes of the past year. We have highlighted the key figures.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/10/supercells-ceo-on-the-results-of-2025-it-was-almost-a-record-year
The Chinese studio miHoYo, known for Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Zenless Zone Zero, announced that four of its former employees have been imprisoned. They were found guilty of abusing their official positions and accepting bribes.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/09/former-mihoyo-employees-receive-prison-sentences-for-bribery
All for the protection of the mental health of French children and adolescents.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/06/the-president-of-france-does-not-rule-out-banning-violent-video-games-in-the-country
Sony Corporation released its financial report for October-December 2025. We have selected the key highlights concerning its gaming division.
Take-Two Interactive reported on its third fiscal quarter of 2026, which ended on December 31, 2025. The results were better than the company had anticipated.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/04/revenue-exceeded-forecasts-and-more-from-the-take-two-report
Nintendo has announced its results for the first nine months of fiscal 2026 — that is, for the period from April 1 to December 31, 2025. The company reported that Switch 2 sales continued to gain momentum, and as a result, the company’s revenues increased.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/02/03/nintendo-report-revenue-doubled-switch-2-sales-surpass-17-million-units
The Ministry of Family and Social Services of Turkey has prepared a draft law, which, if passed, would impose stricter regulations on the operation of Steam, Epic Games Store, and other game stores in the country.
The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have published the results of their traditional developer survey: this time, 2,300 participants took part. We’ve selected some interesting highlights from the report.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/30/gdc-more-and-more-developers-view-generative-ai-as-harmful-to-the-gaming-industry
The Microsoft Corporation released a report outlining the financial results for the last three months of 2025, marking the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/29/xbox-revenue-continues-to-decline-and-more-from-microsofts-quarterly-report
The head of Hooded Horse, a publishing house best known for Manor Lords and the upcoming Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, Tim Bender, gave an interview to PC Gamer. During the conversation, he criticized the vast majority of indie publishers and essentially urged developers to self-publish their games.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal in London has decided to forward a lawsuit against Valve to court. The company is accused of “profiteering off British gamers” through Steam.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/27/in-the-united-kingdom-a-court-will-be-held-regarding-the-steam-monopoly-case
This was reported by the portal TrueAchievements, which analyzed all games released in 2025 in the Microsoft Store. Their statistics cover games for both Xbox consoles and PC.
For the first time in history, one of the parts of the Battlefield series surpassed Call of Duty in annual sales in the US. This is according to data from the analytics company Circana.
Ubisoft has announced the continuation of a large-scale restructuring of its business. As part of this, the company has decided to divide into five “creative houses” — not without some casualties.
The analytics company Sensor Tower has released an extensive report discussing the state of the mobile app market in 2025. We’ve selected key findings related to games.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/21/in-2025-the-revenue-of-the-mobile-gaming-market-grew-but-only-slightly-analysis
The UK National Video Game Council, comprising representatives from various gaming companies, is dissatisfied with the level of government support in the United Kingdom. In their opinion, the government pays very little attention to the game development sector.
The Italian antitrust regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercat (AGCM), has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard. It suspects that the company may have violated consumer protection laws.More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/19/italy-to-investigate-diablo-immortal-and-call-of-duty-mobile-for-dark-patterns
The game quickly became a hit.