Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 23 July 2025.
General6 stories
Pokémon Champions: New details revealed for Switch and mobile battling game that is similar to Pokémon Stadium
Saber Interactive is working on a single-player Hellraiser game for PS5, Xbox, and PC
Surprise Switch / mobile game Pokémon Friends is out now - "Plush-filled puzzle game packed with charming challenges"
Splitgate 2 ‘unlaunches,’ studio to cut staff ahead of 2026 rerelease - Suffered from 96% player drop. This is the second round of layoffs since June with an unknown number of employees affected. Game is going back to Beta
Critical Role working on its first video game, which will be set in Exandria - Dispatch is currently set to release later in 2025
Business3 stories
Supermassive has delayed Directive 8020 amid a round of layoffs - around 36 employees affected
Ubisoft to restructure as "Creative Houses" as Q1 25-26 financials come in "lower-than-expected"
- For the first quarter of 2025-26 financial year ending June 30, 2025
- Revenue: €310.8 million ($365m, down 3.9% year-on-year)
- Net bookings: €281.6 million ($331m, down 2.9%)
- Digital net bookings: €250.2 million ($294m, down 2.7%)
- Back-catalogue net bookings: €260.4 million ($306m, up 4.4%)