4+ hour, 25+ min ago  (56+ words) Substack Game Dev Reports Premium - Updates (27. 04. 26 - 01. 05. 26) New reports & interesting articles of the week. Hey guys! There are too many games, and too little time to play. In pauses between being a good dad in Pragmata, I have a couple of…...

18+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1361+ words) Reports of the week: Circana: The U. S. Gaming Market in March26 BITKRAFT Ventures & Redseer: Indias Gaming Market in 2025 Hushcrasher: Games budgets & did games become more expensive to make? In March 2026, Americans spent $5. 3 billion on games, up 12% year-over-year. First quarter spending grew 5% Yo…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago  (291+ words) According to Hushcrasher estimates, the combined development budget for all Steam games in 2025 was $27 billion. In 2019, the figure was $10 billion, which was 2. 7x lower (or 2. 2x lower if we don't account for inflation). For context, films and TV shows combined spent around…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (626+ words) It's the report I've missed, and it's interesting, and it highlights data that is not so easy to find elsewhere. Exchange rate used: $1 = 85 Indian rupees. India's real GDP growth rate exceeds the average for both emerging and developed economies (2018-2025 data)....

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (83+ words) Substack Game Dev Reports Premium - Updates (20. 04. 26 - 24. 04. 26) New reports & interesting articles of the week. Hey! MOUSE: P. I. For Hire released, and it seems to be an amazing game. For me the most interesting is how accurately devs worked with the IP, and…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (873+ words) Reports of the week: game: German Gaming Market in 2025 App Magic: Friendslop Games in 2025 and their Retention The German gaming association used data from You Gov Shopper (a sample of 25, 000 people), Nielsen IQ, and Sensor Tower. Total revenue of the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (264+ words) App Magic takes a broad look at the friendslop market and the trend as a whole. I won't be covering everything here, just the retention section, which I found interesting. In 2025, 4 of the 10 best-selling games on Steam by copies sold…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (373+ words) Hazelight Studios games have sold over 50 million copies combined: It Takes Two sold 30 million, A Way Out - 13 million, and Split Fiction - 7 million. Mortal Kombat 1 has sold over 8 million copies, per Nether Realm Studios. In August 2025, the studio reported 6. 2 M copies…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (25+ words) Substack Game Dev Reports Premium - Updates (06. 04. 26 - 10. 04. 26) New reports & interesting articles of the week....

3+ week, 19+ hour ago  (1779+ words) Reports of the week: Games and Numbers (March 25 - April 6, 2026) Newzoo: PC and Console Market in 2026 Aream & Co. : Gaming Investment Market in Q126 Valve: 5, 863 Games on Steam Earned More Than $100, 000 in 2025 Crimson Desert by Pearl Abyss has sold over 4 million copies in…...