W51 | 2025

Games Industry Executive Summary | December 19, 2025

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🎯 Highlights

• The Game Awards 2025: All the game announcements and trailers

• FIFA’s Gaming Comeback Is A New Netflix-Exclusive Game

🆕 News

• Battlefield 6 “Extremely Likely” To Outsell Black Ops 7 In The US This Year, Expert Says

• Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026

• Bungie finally confirms a Marathon release date and $40 price point | VGC

• Terminator Survivors is delayed indefinitely and will now be a single-player only survival game with no early access launch

• Deus Ex Remastered delayed to unannounced date

📈 Industry Trends

• Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”

• Ubisoft acquires Amazon Games Montreal team, marking the return of Rainbow Six Siege’s director

• Tencent sells Battalion maker Bulkhead to newly-formed consortium backed by Team 17 owner

• Science Says There’s More To Cozy Games Than A Comfy Escape

• Steam Replay 2025 shows that only 14% of all user playtime was spent playing new PC games

🤫 Rumors

• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Is the Name of Ubisoft’s Long-Awaited Pirate Remake

🔢 Numbers

• Hogwarts Legacy Has Sold 40 Million Units

• Steam data shows over 19,000 games released in 2025

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