(Sharecast News) - Financing services firm TruFin said on Monday that its full-year trading performance was now expected to be "significantly ahead" of market expectations.

Trufin said it now expects to deliver a positive underlying earnings performance for the year as a whole, mostly driven by its Playstack subsidiary's launch of Balatro, its fastest-selling PC/console game, and the newly launched Abiotic Factor, which surpassed 250,000 units sold in the first eight days of sales.

The AIM-listed firm added that the rest of the group had also delivered a "robust performance" during the year-to-date.

As of 1145 BST, Trufin shares were up 4.76% at 77.0p.

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com