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Gaming Industry · July 8, 2026

How Iron Nest sold >250k copies in less than 3 days

As we careen towards the end of the week, time to get back to game analysis, and we’re starting with complex artillery sim Iron Nest, which did a lot of things right along the way to 250k sales on Steam in 3 days. Wha?…

Gaming Industry · July 4, 2026

Let's write a search engine, part 1 of 2

Blog post: 29 Aug 2025 I have a search box on my web site that uses Google to search my site only using the site: operator[1]. Try it — type in hexagon tiles and you’ll see that it shows my hexagon tile page. I wondered…

Gaming Industry · June 26, 2026

Hearth & Hamlet’s ~100k & the rise of the bite-sized clicker

Welcome to ‘the tail end of Gamescom week’, and yep, it’s busy for new game reveals: GameFile rounded up the high-profile Opening Night Live handily, and you should also peep Future Games Show’s line-up, the Xbox Games…

Gaming Industry · June 21, 2026

Report: Alibaba to sell gaming division for over $2 billion

Industry News 17.08.2026 14:44 17.08.2026 14:44 admin Published by admin Tags:Alibaba,Lingxi Games,Trustar CapitalIt is allegedly going to be acquired by the investment firm Trustar Capital.Three Kingdoms TacticsRumors…