UKIE: UK games market reaches £8.7bn in 2025
The UK games market reached £8.7 billion in 2025, according to UKIE's annual consumer games market valuation. Software sales grew 7% to £6.03 billion, and digital console sales rose…
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German games market rose 4% in 2025 to €9.4bn, driven by hardware sales
The German games market grew 4% in 2025 to €9.4 billion, driven by higher console hardware sales, particularly the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2. That's according to a report…
What is Huqiao Games?
… Another common mistake is timing. …
"The old school publishing model is dead" – Silver Lining Interactive joins the new wave of pick and mix publishers
… "You've got marketing agencies becoming publishers, you've got publishers becoming developers." The latter is something Silver Lining is planning on doing itself, further down the line. …
"It's a totally crazy market" – The seismic impact of the AI boom on video game hardware
…Double data rate 5 (DDR5) – the current industry standard for random access memory (RAM) – now costs six to eight times as much as it did in September 2025. "Every hardware maker in…
Sega responds to concerns after recording $200 million impairment write-down for Rovio
… Consequently, we have unfortunately not achieved the level of results that had been expected prior to the acquisition." Outside of Rovio, Satomi recognised that Sega is "lagging in initiatives such as digital sales and data-driven marketing." "To move toward a data-driven structure, we will first r… …
Xsolla has all the things developers need to go direct-to-consumer and win
… Thanks to the Xsolla Publishing Suite, all the things for payments, storefronts, publishing, marketing, and distribution are within a single ecosystem. That's on top of content management, live-ops, analytics, and pre-integrated marketing tools. …
Jobs Roundup: March 2026 | Lori Wright and Haiyan Zhang leave Microsoft Gaming
… Wright was CVP of partnerships, business development, and marketing for the platform. Her role covered publishing and platform partnerships, content licensing, developer programs, and marketing expansion. Wright joined Microsoft in 2017 as vice president and general manager of Office 365 marketing. …
Nintendo clarifies hardware price rises were due to sustained component and market costs
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa explained the company's decision to raise hardware prices , attributing it to current market conditions rather than a single factor. During an earnings call Q&A following its…
How China came to dominate mobile games – and how Western companies can compete | Opinion
…first dominating their domestic market, then targeting strategy, then mid-core, and now reaching casual and hybrid-casual. At the same time, AI is compressing development timelines further, while Chinese firms are…