October 26, 2026

GameDev Reports’ latest biweekly roundup highlights major sales milestones across PC, console and mobile. Indie fishing sim How to Fish surpassed 10 million copies in under two months, while Remedy’s Control Resonant reached 1 million sales in three weeks, becoming the studio’s fastest-selling game. Meanwhile, EA Sports FC 27 generated an estimated $714 million from 7.9 million copies, Monster Hunter Rise passed 20 million lifetime sales, and five-person indie studio Wych Elm sold 100,000 copies of Silver Pines at launch.

Raw Fury CEO Pim Holfve explains why the publisher prioritizes originality, emotional impact and a clear creative vision over genre trends or large budgets. Drawing on the success of Blue Prince, he argues that publishers increasingly need to help developers build communities and reach audiences, not simply finance releases. Raw Fury evaluates pitches based on how a game makes players feel, avoids generative AI-created games, and encourages developers to focus on distinctive experiences rather than chasing trends.

The solo developer behind IT support simulator I.T. Never Ends shares how a nights-and-weekends project sold 3,042 copies and generated $37,917 gross revenue in two months. Launching with 27,000 wishlists, the game sold 1,000 copies on day one and earned 98% positive reviews. Yet as daily sales fell to around 20 copies, the developer found themselves feeling disappointed despite the success. The candid retrospective explores wishlist conversion, Steam Next Fest, itch.io demos and the psychological pressure of comparing indie sales numbers.

After six years of development, Wonder Interactive has unveiled SimplyStream, technology that lets Unreal Engine games run directly in web browsers using WebAssembly and WebGPU, powered by players' own graphics cards rather than cloud streaming. The team demonstrated Nanite and Lumen rendering, a 46GB city playable after downloading just 3% of its assets, and multiplayer servers running in WebAssembly. The platform also introduces Strata, an AI agent that can build, playtest and deploy games, plus GameTS for writing Unreal gameplay in TypeScript. The company says the approach could eliminate cloud GPU costs while making high-end games instantly accessible through a link.

GameMaker has announced that its next-generation runtime, GMRT, will become free for commercial use starting January 1, 2027. Developers will be able to build and sell games on Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile and web without purchasing a Professional license, while source code access will be available across all tiers. Console exports will still require an Enterprise license and platform approval, and the existing GMS2 runtime's commercial licensing rules remain separate.

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